insightinmind wrote: > > 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? > >
I believe so... JT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
