Re: [SM] new hard drive

[Daevad]

I think the 8 gig restriction has to to with using early Apple on-board 
IDE controllers.  For example, the Beige G3s have that restriction, but 
not if you use a PCI ATA controller, only if you use the on-board 
controller.

On Jan 25, 2004, at 10:25 PM, George Namcam wrote:

Mike,
You will need at least an ATA/133 controller I
believe, or else the drive will only look like 120
gigs.  I wasn't aware of any 8 gig limitation with
S900's. I have a 80 gig Jaguar partition on my S900
with zero problems.
Good luck.
George
--- ansberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
    I went out to get a new hard drive for my S900
today.  I needed more
room than the current 30 gig drive hooked up to my
pci card provided.  I
didn't intend to go this far, but I wound up buying
a Western Digital
250 GB drive.  It was on sale for $140.  It says it
has an 8MB cache.  I
didn't know that hard drives had onboard cache.
    Are there any problems inherent in using a drive
this big on my
S900?  I do some digital audio, and plan to learn
digital video.  I'll
have to put my OS 10.2 on the first 8 gigs, but
other than that...?
Mike

--
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!  |
      Support Low End Mac
<http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
SuperMacs list info:
<http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>



---------------------------------------------------------------
The Think Different Store
http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com

---------------------------------------------------------------


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
--
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! 
 |

      Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>

SuperMacs list info:    <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
---------------------------------------------------------------
The Think Different Store
http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.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!  |
     Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>

SuperMacs list info:    <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
---------------------------------------------------------------
The Think Different Store
http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com
---------------------------------------------------------------