I'm curious (and incredibly ininformed much of the time) about the older Macs not seeing big drives. I have seen this mentioned before but it just occurred to me that I am using a 9600 (350mhz 604e) running OS 9.1 with a sonnet firewire/usb card, and I have a Maxtor 230g external(firewire) drive that I can see all of and use (I guess if I ever need that much!) all of. Get info says I have used 36.39g and there are 197.21g availible. So is it the card that makes the old dinosaur able to see the big drive?
Thanks, Ann Bill Rising wrote: > Hey folks, > > I was poking around looking for an s-ata card, so that I could use > all the huge amount of space on some large hard drives which I've > bought recently due to drive failures. Why buy something like this? > The older macs I have can see only the first 137GB of a hard drive. > > When I checked out reviews of such cards, they all seemed to be for > much higher-end stuff than I need - things with 4 or 8 ports. All I > need is something with 2 ports that would work well on an G4 AGP 400 > which I plan to use for a backup and file server. I could then have > loads of room to backup my files to (a 250 GB and a 160GB disk). Is > there something that I should be on the lookout for? If I wanted to > use the drives as a RAID to make things either fast or safe, is there > anything I would need to watch for? > > Otherworldcomputing has 3 cards for sale: > . a generic one which is kinda old: ACARD AEC-6290M > . a card made by the folks who made lots of sata cards: FirmTek > SeriTek/1S2 > . a card from Sonnet, the folks who sell lots of cpu upgrades > > I've got no clue if there is any reason to be picky, and I cannot > seem to find any hints on the web. > > Anyone have any pointers? > > Bill > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
