pursuant partition thread

[Shawn Erickson]

On Mar 3, 2007, at 11:23 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 1-Mar-2007, at 22:45, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Who do?
>
> Partitioning does not help with the 128GB 'barrier' as older  
> controllers cannot physically read the upper part of the drive.   
> Partitioning will make no difference, the space above 128GB will  
> not be accessible.

The partitioning recommendation isn't about the 48b LBA hardware  
capability... it is about the capability of the OS (at the time). Go  
review the tech note on it (not going to bother looking it up).

-Shawn