pursuant partition thread

[Ashley Aitken]

On 03/03/2007, at 7:05 AM, Mary H. wrote:

> At 6:28 AM +0100 3/2/07, David Herren wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> ShopGuy may be thinking of this limitation:
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
>
> but it does not apply to your PowerBook, (a 1.67GHz, I assume you  
> meant). (Or Ashley Aitken's PB.) If you check with the HD dealers,  
> you'll see them offering big drives for your model.

Yes, you're right Mary.  Thanks for correcting me.

I'd seen that tech article but couldn't see right-off which machines  
it applied too.

My old PowerMac G4 definitely was included, but as you point out the  
Aluminium PowerBooks should be fine.  Any machine after June 2002 is  
the cut-off I believe.

One should also note, if I understand correctly, it doesn't apply to  
large drive connected by Firewire (or USB2), i.e. larger disks will  
work with older machines through these interfaces.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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