[G4] New hard drive question

[Harry Freeman]

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On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Nathan Gable wrote:

>> All MDD's see big drives on the 100 bus. Both should be on the 100  
>> bus save more than two.
>>
>> k
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>> On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
>>
>>> In either case, a question is whether your MDD will see all 200 GB  
>>> without a new PCI controller card.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>
> I just put a Hitachi 250GB in the zip drive slot of my 800MHz  
> QuickSilver 2002.  The formatting picked up 232.89 GB, a single  
> partition.  If you do go inside like that, the jumpers on the drives  
> need to be set to cable select; at least they did for mine.  So far  
> it's only holding images of my other two drives.
>
> Nate
> --

I would recommend that you break (partition) that large drive up into a  
number of smaller drives. Why you ask, because when you store a file  
(data) the operating system uses the whole sector (or as many as  
necessary) to write the data. So if your sectors are large, say 32k  
bytes, then a file that is only 2k bytes uses a 32k byte sector on your  
disk. As you can see this is a huge waste of HDD space. My 120gig   
drive is partitioned up into 4 drives.

For a more complete explanation regarding this subject refer  
to:http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/ 
hard_disk_sector_structures.htm

 

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