At 8:40 PM -0500 3/21/02, SuperMacs List wrote: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:57:57 EST >Subject: Re: [SM] c500 hard drive > >Last Fall I tried a 20 gig hard drive and had big time problems. I learned >from a Umax tech that I should go no higher than a 10 gig. It was a Maxtor >hard drive and they stood behind it. Maxtor exchanged the 20 gig for a 10 >gig and I have had no problems. > >If someone has installed a larger hard drive and had no problems, I would be >interested in how they were able to get it to work. Mine would freeze in the >start up. It would not even fire up using a start up cd with operating >system. I exchanged the fried hard drive with my old 2 gig and everything >went okay. Hope this helps. kw Who ever said you can't use a drive over 10gb in a C500 or likely any other clone or Mac was lying plain an simple(or misinformed) There were a number of Maxtor drives made that had problems in some machines but this was a Maxtor drive problem/defect and not a machine problem/ defect.Some older Mac OS's maybe 7.6 and older limited you to 2gb partitions but even those would work as either a 2gb drive or the full drive partitioned to as many 2gb partitions as needed to use the whole drive.
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