Hi! I would like to know if the limit of the pre-Quicksilver 2002 Power Macs is a hard limit or whether it can be managed to access beyond this barrier.
I have a Quicksilver 2001, the 733 MHz model with an OWC Mercury Extreme G4 CPU Upgrade to 1,467 MHz and 1.5 GB of RAM. This doesn't look so bad, if only the hard drives could be larger. (The orginial disk is gone, an old 40 GB drive was installed which I removed.) My Power Mac: http://lowendmac.com/ppc/quicksilver-power-mac-g4.html The HDD I currently use was installed in a MDD Dual 1 GHz, which doesn't have the 128 GB limit. The size of the drive is 180 GB. Now in the Quicksilver 2001, the drive shows in System Profiler as a 128 GB drive. Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger is installed at the beginning of the disk on an 80 GB partition, so no problem there. I don't dare to access beyond, since the partitions are Ext2 filesystems (Linux) and I fear data corruption. I've read two contrary statements about the limit of 128 GB: Saying NO: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2544 http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/action.lasso?-database=faq.fp3&-layout=FaqList&-response=answer.faq.lasso&-recordID=34188&-search Saying YES: http://lowendmac.com/macdan/05/1024.html http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/big_ide_drive_support.html#storytop Although I cannot see if the Quicksilver users reporting that large drives work are really using the 2001 model. Anyone know more about this? Greetings to the g-list! I appreciate to be participating now. (This is my first posting.) Mac User #330250 alias Andreas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
