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Post #11 by Franklinstein
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateFri, 8 May 2009 - 20:22
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/1400-g3-upgrade-questions.17301/
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I see absolutely no signs of a 6 GB hard drive limit. I'm using a 40 GB hard drive (Apple ROMed) in mine.
There is a 4GB limit for SCSI Disk Mode...if you have a hard drive bigger than 4GB, and you use SCSI Disk Mode you run a very good chance of data corruption. I know this because I learnt it the hard way by using SCSI Disk Mode on my 1400, which has a 30GB Hitachi Travelstar. (which, other than that, is an absolutely perfect drive for the 1400, runs cool at 4200 rpm, and is whisper quiet)
S'true. However, I've been able to circumvent this problem (in my 2400c) by partitioning the drive: the first partition on the 20GB drive I made slightly less than 4GB, and put the rest in a second partition. When I connect it to another machine in SCSI Disk Mode, only the 4GB partition shows up, and I can transfer data to and from it with no problems.

If you should try this, and both partitions happen to show up in SCSI Disk Mode, make sure to use ONLY the first partition; using the others will almost certainly corrupt them.

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