Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
>>> Early MacMini G4 computers does not support units more than 128 GB Units
>> This is certainly not true. The original Mac mini G4 (1.25 or 1.42 GHz, 32 MiB VRAM)
>> is not more limited in this regard than "silent upgrade" Mac mini G4 (1.33 GHz with
>> 32 MiB VRAM, or 1.5 GHz with 64 MiB VRAM).
>>> I have MacMini G4 clocked at 1,415 GHz, am I out of danger and can install
>>> any kind of hard disks, or am I stuck to a limit of 128GB hard disks?
>> There is no such limit with any Mac mini G4.
> But according to the discussions I read, there is a real problem 128GB IDE limit issue.
On Mac mini G4? Really?
> I don't know [...] if it splits Hard Disk in multiple partitios visible by the
> system, or if it installs a patch in any partition header at Filesystem level.
The 128 GiB limit of the PATA controller acts on device level of course, not on partition or filesystem level.