macintoshman
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Well, I ran out of room on my quadra 800s HD. Downladed 20 MP3s and it turnes full. Any sugestions on a good 1GB SCSI hard drive?
Then what's with the 128gb limit I keep reading about?Yes, you can. There isn't a "disk controller" in a SCSI interface, at least not in the IDE sense. The limitation is with the Operating System.
Systems before 7.5.5 support a drive no larger than 4GB, but Appleshare won't support networked drives more than 2GB.
System 7.5.5 and up support partitions of up to two terabytes. If you had a two terabyte partition you would get extremely large minimum file sizes, unless you've got HFS+ on 8.1 and up.
Systems older than 9.1 have a maximum single file size of 2GB but that doesn't apply to a 68K Mac which can only use up to 8.1
That's the drive size limit on older ATA drive controllers.Then what's with the 128gb limit I keep reading about?Yes, you can. There isn't a "disk controller" in a SCSI interface, at least not in the IDE sense. The limitation is with the Operating System.
Systems before 7.5.5 support a drive no larger than 4GB, but Appleshare won't support networked drives more than 2GB.
System 7.5.5 and up support partitions of up to two terabytes. If you had a two terabyte partition you would get extremely large minimum file sizes, unless you've got HFS+ on 8.1 and up.
Systems older than 9.1 have a maximum single file size of 2GB but that doesn't apply to a 68K Mac which can only use up to 8.1
When I bought my first Macintosh, I had to make do with only a 40MB hard drive. I was never able to fill it up though. Macintosh software was hard to come by in my area. And the little compact Macintosh with its black and white screen couldn't run much of the software I was able to find. I remember running into dialog boxes quite frequently with the cursed reminder that "this software requires a resolution of 640 by 480" or "this software requires the monitor to be set to 256 colors". None of these requirements could be satisfied on the compact Macintosh.Well, I ran out of room on my quadra 800s HD. Downladed 20 MP3s and it turnes full. Any sugestions on a good 1GB SCSI hard drive?
LOL...my first Mac was a 512k back in '85. With my experience with this, and my TRS-80, when I bought my next Mac (a Classic II), I knew I wanted the most RAM possible (4MB), but when I saw the choices of a 40MB or 80MB drive, I was there like, "Geez, I'll never fill up a 40MB hard drive."When I bought my first Macintosh, I had to make do with only a 40MB hard drive. I was never able to fill it up though. Macintosh software was hard to come by in my area. And the little compact Macintosh with its black and white screen couldn't run much of the software I was able to find. I remember running into dialog boxes quite frequently with the cursed reminder that "this software requires a resolution of 640 by 480" or "this software requires the monitor to be set to 256 colors". None of these requirements could be satisfied on the compact Macintosh.Well, I ran out of room on my quadra 800s HD. Downladed 20 MP3s and it turnes full. Any sugestions on a good 1GB SCSI hard drive?
My next Macintosh was a compact with a 640 by 480 screen that could do 16-bit color. I no longer had the problem of inadequate screen resolution or color depth. Instead, I was now faced with having a woefully inadequate hard drive. You see, my second Macintosh had only a 160MB drive. So it was constantly full because I could now use all of that software that had been previously unuseable.
Yeah, life sucked as a Mac user.
Not quite, in this case. The controller/drive dichotomy died with ESDI back in the early 1990s; all drives these days have full controllers on them. The real issue is what the host adapter is capable of.The newer ACARD SCSI IDE bridges don't have this limitation, the older ones do.
It's a limitation of the IDE controller that is on the bridge, not on the computer. SCSI doesn't handle drive sectors directly, and the limitation is with IDE's Logical Block Addressing Scheme. All SCSI sees is a big storage space with read/write and other instructions.
That's why SCSI drives are more expensive: All the disk controller activity is in the drive's electronics in SCSI, in IDE it's on the motherboard. Sort of like comparing full modems and Express Modems (and WinModems).