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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: Fofer on Apr 22, '04 09:47:04PM

If it's dependent on hardware, then how does the Intech ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver play into this?

http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.html

"The Intech ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver software was created to allow the use of extended capacity ATA drives (drives greater than 128 Gigabytes in size) on older (Pre-Mirrored Door) G4 and G3 Macintoshes running MacOS X versions 10.2 and later. Includes intelligent installation/removal utility.Available stand-alone or as part of SpeedTools Utilities package.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later, ATA Drive greater than 128 Gigabytes in size, PowerPC G3 or G4 (which do not currently support extended capacity drives)."



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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: foolio on Apr 23, '04 12:57:26PM

From what I understand of the product, the only "Native" partition (installable,bootable) is the first 128gb of the disk. the remaining partitions > 128gb point are mounted after boot prior to login and handeled by the ktext extension by the OS/CPU not directly by the hardware.



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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: Xeo on Apr 25, '04 10:56:43PM

Sounds shaky to me. No thanks. I'd rather spend $80 on a PCI card.



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