on 4/22/02 8:51 PM, Alan Kim wrote: > Since I don't have much to contribute to this thread, I'll just ask if you are > selecting HFS+ and it still doesn't recognize past 128 gb.
Yes, HFS+ > Also, I wasn't aware of this limitation in OS X. There was a Q&A with Intech on XLR8yourmac.com about a week or two ago. I can't find a link right now, but here's what I saved to my sticky note: Q&A with Intech on SpeedTools 3.5 Update Large Drive Support I had some questions for Intech regarding their 3.5 driver update noted earlier today: Q: Is your large drive (>128GB) support available under OS X? If only this were true...We still have a long way to go before we can release OS X native ATA drivers that support extended capacities. However, we have formally requested extended ATA support for OS X from Apple (on behalf of Maxtor, of course). Q: Are you saying that the driver alone (used with ATA/66, etc. onboard IDE interfaces) will enable full use of 160GB drives for instance? Yes, that is exactly what we are saying. We currently support up to 2048 GB ATA drives connected to the Mac native IDE bus. Furthermore, the ATA-6 specification also dramatically increases the number of blocks per transfer, improving throughput dramatically Q: I saw that improvement noted in the Maxtor ATA/133 white paper last year - but doesn't that require an ATA/133 interface? (or do the drivers only enable this?) Actually it's a bit more complicated than this. The ATA/133 spec is part of the speed spec for ATA-6: essentially it's a double clocked ATA/66. Currently, the built-in Apple IDE controllers do not support any speed above ATA/66. There is nothing any driver can do about this. However, the ATA-6 spec also supports a new command spec to allow for extended capacities and transfer sizes. This is what we are supporting, and it is specifically this new command spec which allows us to support drives over 128 GB in capacity under the classic versions of MacOS. Hope that helps clarify. If not, let me know. Q: Also are the v3.5 drivers OS X compatible at all? (even for <128GB drives) Nope. Because of this dilemma we devoted a big chunk of a web page just to handling this issue. Please see http://www.IntechUSA.com/XNews.html to see exactly what we are telling our customers to do. If you have any suggestions, we're all ears. Chris www.intechusa.com -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
