On Jun 8, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Britt Dodd wrote:

> 
> 
> On Jun 8, 2012 12:53 PM, "John Carmonne" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a PowerComputing PowerBase 180 with a 300MHz Sonnet G3 Crescendo card. 
> It has a 20GB IDE HDD in it  and I want to know the largest HDD it will 
> support without extra software? I want to put in a 40GB.
> 
> 

> I put a 80gb drive into my 5400. Worked fine with the knowledge that hfs 
> allocates blocks very poorly with large devices. If I did it again I'd go 
> with hfs+


I'll be setting up the drive on another computer to make it faster and then 
install it into the  PowerBase because it doesn't have F/W ports. So I guess I 
can format it HFS+ with a G5 PM?


John Carmonne
Yorba Linda CA
92886 USA
MacBook Pro i7






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