On Wednesday, July 02, 2003, at 03:51PM, Dennis Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The bigger drive is NOT a waste of money...you'll just need to >partition the drive into volumes that your OS WILL recognize...it's >really no different than what you would need to do when installing OS X >(you don't say which OS you're running), which, on older machines, >required being installed in the first 8 Gb of drive space. In my case, >that meant partitioning the drive into a 7.5 Gb volume for the install >and a 110 Gb+ volume for everything else. When it comes to drives, >BIGGER is NEVER a waste of money...8-) well, actually... the ATA bus on this iMac will not recognize any space on a disk beyond 128GB. doesn't matter how you partition it. this is part is a hardware limitation. "partitioning" is mostly for human consumption, though there are some exceptions (such as the 8GB OS X boot restriction on this model). an ATA bus isn't sophisticated enough to address disk space beyond somewhere in the vicinity of 128GB. basically... the method ATA/66 uses to count disk space is only capable of counting up to ~128 billion bytes. the hardware just can't go any higher. later revisions of the ATA architecture upped the ante, allowing the computer to address more disk space. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
