On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:06 PM, insightinmind wrote:
>>> SATA drives have no restriction. > > Technically ... neither do PATA drives > > ... on expansion cards. Sure they do. UATA/33 cards for PCs or Macs are limited to 128 GB (131,072 MB). UATA/66 cards for PCs or Macs are limited to 128 GB (131,072 MB). UATA/100 cards for PCs or Macs without the update are limited to 128 GB (131,072 MB). UATA/133 cards for PCs or Macs have no practical limitation. The LBA48 properly was added as a requirement on UATA/133 cards, but was back-fitted to a few UATA/100 cards (Promise, and perhaps another ... ACARD, I think) through a firmware update. The manufacturers of UATA/33, /66 and most /100 cards never went back and offered an LBA48 update for their cards, hence the 131,072 MB restriction is permanent on those cards. Intel mobos with on-board UATA/66 or UATA/100 ports also have no limitation, which is perhaps one reason why these mobos make such economical Hackintoshes. Apparently, Award, or whomever, elected to include the LBA48 property within the BIOS of all of its offerings for Intel products. Gigabyte G31, P35, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Also, incredibly enough, the MSI Saturn, which is a complete barebones system available for about $60. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
