On Oct 31, 2005, at 9:37 am, Faye Krouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not a problem here, but just a little tip. I have discovered that I can trick any g-3 slot loader into accepting and using ALL the space on a big IDE drive. I simply format the drive on a g-4 Emac and use Carbon Copy Cloner to put a bootable folder on the new drive. I can do this fairly conveniently because the Emac(ati graphics) has two ide controllers. I just drilled a little slot in the white plastic cover and ran a round ata cable through it. One end powers the cd ROM and the other the drive. I use an external power supply to power the other drive under my desk. In any case, having the big drive is great. Even though it is not used to its fastest transfer potential, the 16 MB cache is nice and the 7200 rpm spin gives faster read/writes. The system's boot and run just fine(g3-500 g3 600 g3 400 DVD SE). The only downside is that I cannot repair the permissions without the firmware remembering its marching orders(even in target mode from the Emac). Still pulling it out occasionally to run disk utility on it is not such a big deal in order to use such a big fast drive on a daily basis. By the way, the emac has a 250 GB drive in it without a hiccup. This is using 0s x 10.3.9 I don't know if this would work with classic.
This may not be doing what you think it's doing. By formatting the drive on another system you might get a slot-loading iMac to *report* more than 128 GB, but that doesn't mean it can correctly address all of that space (the fact that permissions repair doesn't work should tell you something). The drive will appear to work fine until it starts to fill up beyond 128 GB ... If your BootROM doesn't use 48-bit Logical Block Addressing then your on-board IDE channels can't properly address more than about 128 GB. Period. End of sentence. You can certainly utilize the larger cache and lower seek times of the drive, but I don't believe you're actually using any more of the space than if you formatted it as a ~128 GB drive. -Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "You can't brew a premium lager with a Kool-aid mentality." --Harold Green in _The_Red_Green_Show_ -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
