Is that IT Hell I can smell?...... >>>>> ---- Original Message ---- >>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> To: wamug@wamug.org.au >>>>> Subject: Re: Running out of disk space >>>>> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:17:59 +0800 >>>>> >>>>>> Email me if you're interested or if you think >>>>>> the group would find it useful. >>>>> >>>>> I'm buying an ATA Controller card soon so I'm quite interested >in >>>>> this. >>>> >>>>As a matter of interest had you considered a SATA controller and >>>Hard >>>>drive ? >>>> >>>>Bob >> >>I certainly did! >> >>The problem was that buying an SATA disk *and* controller at the >same >>time compared badly on price to buying a 160 GB ATA drive so, like a >>goose, I bought the ATA drive. >>I haven't put an ATA drive into a clients machine for maybe 12 >>months, what was I thinking! >> >>Surprise! The B&W G3's ATA controller chip doesn't 'see' more than >>128 GB in a single drive, I wish I knew *that* before! I believe >some >>early G4s are the same. >> >>The direction I took was so wrong that before I gave St. Daniel Kerr >>a deposit on an ATA controller I was seriously considering getting >an >>SATA controller card *and* an ATA to SATA adapter. >>This would allow me to use the ATA drive from the SATA controller >>card, aye! >>Then, if my finances ever recovered I could have bought an SATA >drive >>and ran the car backwards and forwards over the ATA drive. >> >>I had to put the ATA drive into a friends firewire enclosure on his >>G5 iMac to initialise the full 148.92 GB out of the 160 GB drive, >>thanks again to Daniel Kerr for that tip. >>However OSX behaves like an old goat if I use it as a boot drive, so >>I had to replace the Zip drive with it on the Secondary IDE channel >>to be able to use it at all. >>Now I am thinking that the drive isn't even running too quickly >>either. @#*%! >> >>Buy an SATA controller. I should have! >> >> >>Cheers >>Paul >> >> >>-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
