[OperaMan]

I have a 733 mhz G4, which is unfortunately the last G4 that doesn't support drives larger than 137 GB. I found a great deal on a 160 GB drive, so I was wondering if I could put this drive in my G4 and just live withouth that little bit of space. Would the computer recognize it and would to drive run corruption free?

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Would partitioning it work?

But other than that it would run fine. 160 Gig drives probably only have 140 usable anyway so you aren't losing much.

[tooki]

You can indeed safely use it as a 137GB drive. Partitioning will not work, because it is a limitation of the controller chip, not the filesystem.

tooki

[Eug Wanker]

Do Oxford 911 chipsets in Firewire enclosures guarantee compatibility with sizes over 137 GB? Or is it a different part of the chipset?

[tooki]

No, a 911 chip doesn't. I guess there must be different revisions of that chip, cuz some do support large drives, earlier ones don't.

tooki