You know I thought the same thing so the first thing I did was to dump a whole bunch of archived apps on it figuring it would balk, but, amazingly, it went way beyond the 128 mark without a problem. I even did a checksum to make sure the files were intact. Since then I have been running Security spy on these machines which generates huge mpg 4 video files that have archived close to the full capacity so that I have had to delete them to make room for more. I have two machines with 300 GB maxtors now and one with 200. I really can't explain why this works. It is as if as long as the g-3's bios isn't aware of it, it works fine. Maybe there is something in the Os's 64 bit superstructure that allows this. The only other clue I can give you is that one machine threw a fit with one configuration. I had tried a three partition scheme:one for the OS, one for a dedicated swap file, and, lastly, a big data storage section. This worked OK for a couple of days then refused to mount the big partition at all giving off all the messages one would expect when I ran Norton on it attached to the Emac again. Inconsistent free space, bloc number discrepancy sorts of things. I put the drive back in the Emac and made one big partition like the others and it has been happy as a clam for a week now. Go figure. --- Jeff Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
