On Mar 12, 2009, at 10:20 AM, James E. Therrault wrote:
> > Heh! > > After thinking about this for awhile, I started wondering what > values my > ol' G4 400 Gigabit was seein' on the 160GB Seagate drive that I > installed a couple of years ago. The reason, the limitations for HDs > with this era machine. > > Yep, I partitioned it into three equal volumes and got the following > from "Get Info." > > #1 - 49.55GB > #2 - 49.55GB > #3 - 49.55GB > > Then I remember vaguely someone mentioning that partitioning is the > workaround to achieve the full potential of this drive so I guess > that a > total value of just under 150GB proves that out with the rest of the > missing capacity just being consumed by "overhead." I believe its also related to the "160" is base 10.00 ... which translates to roughly 150, base 2**10. > > Interesting point: System Profiler lists this drive as having a total > capacity of 128GB which would be its unpartitioned capacity. Is this also an "LBA48 challenged" machine? Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
