Dennis Moser
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 16:08 US/Central, Jeremy Derr 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.
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