>---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Running out of disk space >Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:09:37 +0800 > >>On 26/02/2005, at 4:04 PM, Paul Kitchener wrote: >> >>> ---- Original Message ---- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Running out of disk space >>> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:17:59 +0800 >>> >>>> Email me if you're interested or if you think >>>> the group would find it useful. >>> >>> I'm buying an ATA Controller card soon so I'm quite interested in >>> this. >> >>As a matter of interest had you considered a SATA controller and >Hard >>drive ? >> >>Bob
I certainly did! The problem was that buying an SATA disk *and* controller at the same time compared badly on price to buying a 160 GB ATA drive so, like a goose, I bought the ATA drive. I haven't put an ATA drive into a clients machine for maybe 12 months, what was I thinking! Surprise! The B&W G3's ATA controller chip doesn't 'see' more than 128 GB in a single drive, I wish I knew *that* before! I believe some early G4s are the same. The direction I took was so wrong that before I gave St. Daniel Kerr a deposit on an ATA controller I was seriously considering getting an SATA controller card *and* an ATA to SATA adapter. This would allow me to use the ATA drive from the SATA controller card, aye! Then, if my finances ever recovered I could have bought an SATA drive and ran the car backwards and forwards over the ATA drive. I had to put the ATA drive into a friends firewire enclosure on his G5 iMac to initialise the full 148.92 GB out of the 160 GB drive, thanks again to Daniel Kerr for that tip. However OSX behaves like an old goat if I use it as a boot drive, so I had to replace the Zip drive with it on the Secondary IDE channel to be able to use it at all. Now I am thinking that the drive isn't even running too quickly either. @#*%! Buy an SATA controller. I should have! Cheers Paul
