At 8:54 AM -0700 9/8/05, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Sep 8, 2005, at 8:17 AM, John Alonso wrote:
Huge Drives (larger than 137 gigs) can be partitioned
into 2 smaller than 137 gig drives and used in an
external HD enclosure at least in X 10.2 and if I
remember corectly in OS 9 as well.
No need to partition them, the limit is from the ATA controller in
the Mac motherboard, not the OS. The volume size limit in OS 9 and X
is 2 terabytes.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24601>
And partitioning them doesn't help on the internal ATA controllers
that have the limitation.
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