PeterH wrote:
>
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>>> What is the limit on hard drive size for a PPC Mac. I have a
>>> Sawtooth
>>> running 10.4.11. Thanks, Dennis in Victoria
>> Native on the built-in ATA bus is 128 gb, but there is a high-capacity
>> driver available that will get around this. If you stick in an ATA or
>> SATA controller card there's no limit.
>
> Native up to and including QS 2001 is 131,072 MB.
>
> Native for QS2002 and later is unlimited.
It's not unlimited, it's 144 petabytes (144,000,000 Gb). And before
someone says it might as well be unlimited, that's almost certainly what
someone said about the 128 Gb limit... surprise, it's not. True, it's
unlikely to be an issue, by the time someone is building drives that big
most people won't know what PATA IDE is.
>
> With the High-Cap kext, this can be extended to unlimited for most
> early G4 models and late G3 models (known not to work with 10.5.x).
>
> With the LBA48 property work-around, this can be extended to
> unlimited for most early G4 models (works perfectly on my DA, and
> probably works perfectly on all AGP G4s).
I would say it's very large, but it's definitely not UNLIMITED.
Just remember those other "UNLIMITED" values.
RAM
64Kb RAM
640Kb
1Mb
16Mb
4Gb
HD
32Mb
4Gb
128Gb
200Tb
Network speeds we'll never need to exceed.
10MBps
100MBPs
1000MBPs
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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