[Cube] MAzimum Hard Drive size for Cube ?

Andrew McKenzie andrew.mckenzie at onlinecol.com
Thu Aug 9 05:29:57 PDT 2007


Hi-

Certainly should be able to.

Andrew

On Aug 9, 2007, at Aug 9 , 5:27 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:

	I have a 120GB Seagate HD.  Could I use it as my Cube's internal HD  
without any issues or special black magic? I found that it did not  
like the 10GB Maxtor I also had laying around...

Francois wrote:
> From: Francois <franc-b at shaw.ca>
> Date: July 24, 2007 11:19:51 AM MDT (CA)
> To: cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: Re: [Cube] MAzimum Hard Drive size for Cube ?
> Hi Stefan,
> I have used OSX since the first version on my cube. I've installed  
> every upgrade available and have used an 80GB drive the whole time.  
> Not once has the HD given me a scare. (not to mention all that time  
> on OS9 I think I had maybe 1 incident). The reason I told you that  
> is so that you have an idea of how unlikely having to repair my  
> disk is. So it's not too big of an issue for me. If I did need to  
> do that though it would be time for me to put that drive in a Mac  
> Pro to repair it as it would be WAY faster.
>  From my memory when I installed the driver I did test a few of  
> your questions out. I was able to access the drive in every case -  
> except when connected by firewire in any method.
> I will try to test it again to see if it still works!
> On Jul 20, 2007, at 10:06 AM, cube- 
> request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:09:25 +0200
>> From: Stefan <no-spam at punkt-x.de>
>> Subject: Re: [Cube] MAzimum Hard Drive size for Cube ?
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's Cube."
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I use that software from Intech. It works great gives me access to
>>> 320 GB internal IDE drive, but the only problem I didn't foresee is
>>> when connecting the cube as a FW disk to another mac, it will not be
>>> able to access anything past the 128 GB, EVEN IF the other mac loads
>>> the Intech driver... so its a small limitation to be aware of.
>>> Francois
>>
>> Hi Francois,
>>
>>
>> I read your posting.
>>
>> Some years ago I installed the Intech-driver for a while but found it
>> instable then.
>> And I was concerned for my data.
>> Now you brought back my interest. :-)
>>
>> Do you have experiences with situations when you had to repair your
>> (large!) harddisk
>> by booting in root-mode or with harddisk-toolkit (original Apple or
>> other) when starting from a connected firewire-drive? (I don't mean
>> target-mode!)
>> Does the 128 GB-limit exist in that case too?
>>
>> That's what moves my mind.
>>
>> Or are there any other problems to mention?
>> I hope you will tell us everything of importance?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for answering in advance
>> Stefan
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