insightinmind wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Steve R wrote: > >> At 4:22 PM -0800 1/19/09, PeterH posted: >>> On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Steve R wrote: >>> >>>> Does the 120GB hard drive/partition restriction for G3 B&W also >>>> include SATA drives on expansion cards? >>> No. >>> >>> SATA drives have no restriction. > > Technically ... neither do PATA drives > > ... on expansion cards.
Some PATA cards (generally older ones) do have the limit. Since SATA is relatively new they don't have the problem. It's not the drives, it's the controller card The problem is an old one, someone sets out to specify how a device works and figures that thousands, millions, billions or more is enough for whatever is needed. Over time it turns out it wasn't enough. Odds are something in SATA will turn out to be too small, someday. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
