Originally Posted by Jafro
3 things...
1. Is your 1400c the 117MHz or the second-rev 133 MHz model?
2. It's a good thing your memory is maxed. If you priced that memory today, you'd be shocked at what it costs.
3. So you have 2 1GB partitions? My 1400c only had a 2GB drive in it.
I don't know what the storage limitation would be with the Sonnet card? Do they make ATA-133 drives bigger than 250GB right now? I'm using only 1 partition of 250GB and it works fine in OS 9 and OS X. Just isn't bootable... or I haven't managed to boot it yet anyway. It seems to wake up the Sonnet card after the POST routine has completed, so I don't think it will. It can run a master/slave/master/slave, so if you maxed it out with 4 250GB drives, you'd have about a Terrabyte in a Blue & White case. Not bad. I don't like running slaves, though. I'd use 2 Tempo ATA133 cards to do that.
Edit: The limitation should be whatever 32-bit addressing maxes out at for a single volume. The 133GB ceiling is caused by the limitations of 24-bit addressing.
1. It is the first-rev, 117Mhz model.
2. Thank the previous owner.
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3. My System 7.6 partition is just shy of 329MB. My 7.5.3 partition is 412 MB. So there ya go. You've handily got me beat on storage. But I'm not too worried, I've got a refugee external SCSI drive I salvaged from an old Quadra 610 I used to own... still runs like a champ.
I'm not sure where the market is.. since I pulled back from Mac Consulting in 01, I've been loafing along a bit. My advice would be to trust your instincts and go with the 2 ATA133 cards. If for some reason one of the cards were to take a dump, you'll have some measure of redundancy.. It'll be crowded inside that case though.
In all honesty, though. I've just been judicious with my backups...and my 10 GB drive on the G3 has done fine. A terabyte is great for big-time multimedia authoring...but unless you can make it price competitive, I question the need to do it.
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My 2.5¥. :cheers: