On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Ann Richmond wrote:
> 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?
>
That depends on if you have "the old dinosaur " sitting on the card
for better viewing purposes or not...
It is a combination of the the card and the OS that allows this.
Older OSes would not let you see the bigger drive regardless of the
card.
Jerry
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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