Howdy, The drive will not address the issue of LBA48. If your motherboard needs a work around to handle drives larger than 128 GB, you will still need it. If you were asking that earlier, I am sorry I missed it. These simple adapters only do the interfacing between the two drive types. The LBA48 issue is that some systems don't know to address block numbers that took you above the 128 GB boundary. They still can't address those blocks with this adapter. I suppose the best answer for you depends on your exact needs. I would probably use one of these adapters, and plug a 160 GB sata drive into it. I would format it to the 128 gb limit and forget the rest. I have plenty of drive space available on my network on NAS devices. I will have plenty of capacity after my new hardware raid controller arrives, that is. Good luck, Ralph
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 10:24 -0400, insightinmind wrote: > I still question: if my mobo does not support LBA48 addressing > mode, will the adapter correct this? > They claim: ATA/ATAPI LBA48 addressing mode associated with 2- > byte sector count. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
