pursuant partition thread

[Ashley Aitken]

On 04/03/2007, at 4:23 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.

Yes, but the guys who sell the driver to make older Macs work with  
larger drives recommend that you make the first partition less than  
128GB when you are using their driver (on an older Mac).

The reason being that if you boot the same Mac from a DVD or external  
drive that does not have the driver installed the OS will only see  
128GB of any larger partition.

Inevitably this would royally screw up the partition.  So I think  
that's eminently professional advice and advice that I was willing to  
follow to reduce the risk of data loss.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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Ashley Aitken
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