I'm curious where you come up with this stuff. Look in the other thread about this same issue. I posted a screenshot of a 40gb IDE drive formatted in HFS(not HFS+) and it uses all 40gb's(well 38. something) HFS has no known limit as well as HFS plus. IDE and bus protocols are SEPARATE from file systems and have no impact on them. Let me find that earlier thread.
Soon as I can get a replacement HD of larger than 130gb's, I'll stick it in my Frankenstein machine and format it, you just have to know how to do it, and what apple tools to use. Don't mean to sound insulting if I am sounding that way, but I have been doing this since the mid 90's and am old and grumpy.
P.S. And when formatting a 40gb HD with plain old HFS, the smallest file size is 1.1mb's Not very usefull is it?
Soon as I can get a replacement HD of larger than 130gb's, I'll stick it in my Frankenstein machine and format it, you just have to know how to do it, and what apple tools to use. Don't mean to sound insulting if I am sounding that way, but I have been doing this since the mid 90's and am old and grumpy.
P.S. And when formatting a 40gb HD with plain old HFS, the smallest file size is 1.1mb's
Not very usefull is it?