Damn my large fingers..... Sent from my iPhone 4
On 28 Sep 2011, at 22:49, Matt Emson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone 4 > > On 28 Sep 2011, at 19:18, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> However, since the switchover to SATA happened before drives larger than >> 128gb were commonly made for 2.5 ATA, this is largely an moot issue for >> older Macs (the limit is often defined as 128gb because that's the nearest >> size smaller than the actual 132 gb limit that was made). > > > You can certainly buy 2.5" IDE drives larger than 128GB. > > >> If you're thinking of installing larger drives, double check to make sure >> they actually ARE ATA drives, not SATA. > > The IDE and SATA interfaces are quite obviously different - this should be > fairly obvious. You can convert IDE to SATA, though I've never seen the > reverse. Also, if you insist on speaking of IDE in terms of ATA (baring in > mind, IDE covers both ATA and ATAPI), the term is now more correctly PATA. > >> There is no 'drift' because the controller cannot access above the 132 gb >> limit, period, without the special drivers. Drift is where a file with in the firmware readable section of an extended sized partition is written past the readable section of the disk. If the third party driver fails, the partition will become unbootable. Because of the way HFS stores data, this would likely cause a big chunk of the directory to become corrupt. But this is going to be fairly hard to duplicate, and is unlikely to happen in most cases. >> -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
