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Apple IDE Cannot Access Beyond 137GB

Posted by pudge on from the hard-drives-for-dummies dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "iMacLinux reported on a PenguinPPC story about Apple hardware being unable to address more than 137GB of space on IDE drives. The Apple computers only have ATA-66, which can only address 28 bits, while ATA-100/133 can address 48 bits. Solutions include using a PCI controller, FireWire or SCSI."

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  1. Re:explain this: by Hadlock · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    i know this is a strech, but i have a mac LC II (OLD 68k system, 16 mhz, 10 mb ram) with the original 40 mb hard drive. how might one go about making a 1 gb scsi hd work in the mac? (LC II's apparently can support up to 4 gb drives, so size isn't the problem, and the scsi drive came out of my friend's old counterstrike server) i ran apple's hard drive detection/formatting software, but it refused to recognize a new drive. any thoughts?

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