Hard Drives

[Joe LeKostaj]

Keith wrote:
>I have a 12G Toshiba IDE HD that I am planning to put into my 2400. Anyone
>have any problems with large hard drives?
>

Brian replied:
>
>Partition, Partition, Partition,
>
>Seriously you should partition for a lot of reason,
>main one being if you want to ever use the SCSI disk
>mode you need to have at laest one partion less than
>2.0 gigs or it won't work.


Keith & Brian,
I don't have first-hand experience with this matter, but I was put 
off upgrading to a larger-than-4GB HD by Apple Technical Note TN1116. 
It says a problem occurs in the 2400 *IF* you install an ATA drive 
larger than 4GB *AND* you try to use the 2400 in SCSI disk mode.

Here are some direct quotes from that Tech Note:
- "Partitioning the drive will not solve this problem."
- "To avoid this problem, you have two choices:
1. Do not upgrade PowerBooks prior to the PowerBook G3... to ATA hard 
drives greater than 4 gigabytes in capacity.
2. If you do upgrade an older PowerBook to an ATA hard drive greater 
than 4 gigabytes in capacity, do not use such a PowerBook in SCSI 
disk mode."

I have heeded this advice because I *do* use my PB2400c in SCSI disk 
mode regularly. If you don't, then you can choose to disregard it 
and/or experiment with setting up partitions <4GB and see what 
happens if you ever do try SCSI disk mode.

Technical Note TN1116 can be downloaded from:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Descriptions/Specs/applepbhdtechnote.pdf

Just my two cents' worth!

Best regards,
Joe LeKostaj