If you use anything newer than 8.1 (IIRC) to format your drive it will support HFS+.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
