[G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

[Richard Northouse]

John,

The controller can only address 128 gb -- all in one piece or in many. Your
experimental results are accurate -- maximum 128 gb. But your system will
function fine, you just won't have access to 160-128 = 32 gb of your drive.
You will be OK. But if you ever get a pci controller card that can access
greater than 128 gb, then you will need to be very careful because now that
missing 32 gb will be available and your drive will probably need to be
reformatted, which will cause loss of your data. But if you don't add this
card, you will be fine. Just a maximum of 128gb .

rich


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[mailto:g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of John Niven
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 8:49 PM
To: A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers.
Subject: Re: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

Harry,

Yes it is easy to make partitions, but the sum total
of all the partitions is still 128Gb!!!!!!!!!

I just tried what you said and it doesn't allow you to
create two partitions that sum greater than 128Gb.
What a waste of time.

Have you actually done it yourself? Speculative advice
is OK but if you don't KNOW that it works you should
at least say that.

John

--- Harry Freeman <harry at gifutiger.com> wrote:

> Greetings ( + )!( + )
> 
> Sure John, it's easy, when you bring up "Disk
> Utility" click on help  
> and then in the help box type "Partition" and you
> get the help menu for  
> Partitioning a drive, some of which I've included
> below. However you  
> will be required to reformat the drive, so if you
> have any information  
> on the disk it will be wiped clean.
> 
> 	1 	Start up your computer from a Mac OS X Install
> CD or an external  
> hard disk with a System folder.
> 	2 	Open Disk Utility, located in
> Applications/Utilities. (If you start  
> up from a Mac OS X Installer CD, choose Installer >
> Open Disk Utility.)
> 	3 	Select the disk that you want to partition in
> the left column .
> 	4 	Click Partition.
> 	5 	Choose the number of partitions from the Volume
> Scheme pop-up menu.
> 	6 	Click each partition and type a name for it,
> choose a format, and  
> type a size (you can also drag the partitions to
> change the size).
> 	7 	Select the option to Install Mac OS 9 Drivers if
> you will use the  
> partition as a Mac OS 9 startup disk. (You do not
> need Mac OS 9 drivers  
> to use Classic.)
> 	8 	Click Partition, then click Partition again.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:14 PM, John Niven wrote:
> 
> > This comes up all the time! Has anybody actually
> done
> > it, rather than imagining it?
> >
> > I put a 160Gb drive in my Gigabit Ethernet and
> under
> > 10.3.9's Disk Utility it would only recognize it
> as a
> > 128Gb. How can I partition it, if it's only
> recognized
> > as 128Gb? In truth I don't really care since 128Gb
> is
> > more than enough and if I really wanted more I'd
> just
> > buy another disk.
> >
> > John
> >
> > --- Eric Wood <ewood at izoom.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If it won't format beyond a single 128 GB
> partition,
> >> I imagine it's
> >> possible to make two partitions in order to take
> >> full advantage of the
> >> drive's capacity. The goal there would be to use
> the
> >> entire drive up
> >> with the two partitions, however large you make
> the
> >> two of them. The
> >> default is simply to cut the drive in half.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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