pursuant partition thread

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi David (et al.),

On 02/03/2007, at 2:28 PM, David Herren wrote:

> I'm running out of disc space on my old Powerbook G4. While I'd  
> like to replace it, bottom line is that I can't afford to for a  
> year or more. So, I'm looking at having a larger drive installed.  
> It's got an 80 gig drive in it now. I'd like to stick at least a  
> 120 gig drive in.

I'm stuck with (only) a 1.25 Gz PowerBook G4 for a while as well - oh  
the pain ;-)

> I took it to the local "official" apple shop here in Spain (the  
> only certified shop in Navarra). The guy I spoke with there is  
> telling me that my 1.67MHz powerbook g4, 2 gigs ram, can't "handle"  
> a drive as large as 120 gig, and that it will only accept a 100 gig  
> drive.
>
> This sounds like horse hockey to me. Any feedback from you all?

I believe his is almost correct, but not exactly.

Older PowerBooks (like mine and probably yours) were limited to 128GB  
volumes.

So you should be able to install a 120GB drive without a problem.  If  
you were considering a 160GB drive then you may need to consider the  
following third party driver:

<http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml>

I am using it on an old PowerMac G4 and it works fine.

They do *recommend* that you *partition* the drive though (into  
volumes less than 128GB) just in case you install it into a machine  
without the driver installed and screw up the volume.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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Ashley Aitken
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