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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: Flynnstone on Apr 22, '04 01:16:33PM

I don't know if this helps, but ...
I use a Mac & PC, I recently bought a G5 (love it). I come from Windoze and Linux lands.
I recent converted an old PC (PI 266) to Linux. I put two 160 gig drives in a raid configuration. A PII 266 has no concept of a 160 gig drive. Or BIOS doesn't understand big drives. The BIOS I believe has a 8 gig boot limit. Linux does understand big drives.
So how it works is Linux boots out a small 100 Meg boot partition. Once Linux is running it can access the entire drive. Linux doesn't use the BIOS.

Now something similar could happen in OS X, but I think it is wise to pay attention to the warnings by the other people.



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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: MacHarry on Apr 22, '04 02:48:58PM

according to Sonnettech.com, the limit is indeed per Drive, not per partition, & that an ATA-133 PCI card (which they as well as others make) will make it all better



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