Strictly speaking, you CAN use drives larger than 128 GB; you just can't address those parts of the drive beyond the 128 GB limit.
This is important because finding a new 120 GB PATA drive is becoming difficult. If you can find a (say) 160 GB disk which is cheaper than a 120, you can save yourself some money and buy it. Just format it with a 120 GB partition and do not use the rest of the space. Gotcha: I am unsure whether a 160+ will format into a usable 120 in your Mac, or whether this would have to be done first in a later Mac with large drive support. I suspect you can, but I haven't tried it myself. Of course, if you're looking to pull a used drive out of your parts bin, this may be moot. On Sep 6, 2:40 pm, Dennis Myhand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am putting together a G-4. A Sawtooth to be exact. I have access to > a number of hard drives to use. An IDE interface is what I will end up > using. My question is, will any IDE drive work (less that 120 gigs)? > Or, do I need one specific to a Mac? I am moving from the PC world into > Macs. Will the disk utilities take care of the formatting and drive > setup or do I need something originally built for Macs? Thanks, Dennis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
