On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know about Macs, but I tried using a PATA HD on an optical PATA bus > in a PC and was unpleasantly surprised to find no LBA48 support so it was > limited to 128 GB HDs. This was on a relatively new motherboard made in > 2008. I don't think anyone expects an optical PATA bus to be used as a HD > bus so it's likely it may be limited to 128GB max.
I cannot think of any reason any motherboard manufacturer would do that. LBA48 support is just part of any reasonably priced chipset they would buy to implement the PATA support. For example, the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 I got in 2007 uses a JMicron chipset to support 2 sata ports and a PATA connector which supports 2 PATA devices. The same chipset controls both. If they stripped out LBA48 for the PATA they'd also be doing it for the SATA. It would not save them any money. It would actually cost them money to do this because essentially be "special ordering" a setup like that. Could you provide details on this PC such as manufacturer and model number? -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
