--- K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I , too, was thinking of adding a larger drive, but > the only hard drives > now available seem to be 10 g or more. Yet an Apple > repair specialist here > said that there was an 8g limit on the powerbook > 3400s and he would not > recommend going over that- something about the power > needed to drive a > larger drive not being readinly available on the > 3400.
I'm not sure what he meant by a "limit". He definatly wasn't speaking of a physical limit. Years ago when notebook manufacturers were mounting the BIOS for the drives on the motherboards, rather than on the drive controller itself, machines were "limited" by the size drive the mother board BIOS would support. Since this was a directly soldered chip, it took somoen with a bit of know-how to replace it for you if you wanted to go larger... Drive BIOS chips have been on the controllers for many years now (around 10 or so) so it really isn't a consideration.... especially not for the 3400. I've been running a 10GB drive in my 3400 for a long time now with no problems whatsoever. It's an IBM Ultrastore drive and is much faster than the original 2GB drive that wa in it. Definatly a worthwhile upgrade. The only thing to consider is a known problem with the 3400 where if you install a drive larger than 3GB, don't try to SCSI dock the unit... data corruption could result. Other than that, no problems. Cheers, Sionnach __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
