10-30-2006, 03:18 PM
If you go to this article on Apple's site, they give details on which Macs support 128 GB drives:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
Specifically they state models introduced after June 2002. The original eMac was introduced in April 2002. Now it is possible there was a silent change during production before the 800 MHz and 1 GHz ATI graphics models officially came out with large drive support, and some later 700 MHz eMacs can support large drives. But that is only possible under OS X, and was not announced. Don't know how you would be able to tell except by trying a large drive, and in this case it looks like the answer is no.
As for xlr8yourmac, most of the entries for eMacs do not say which model. So it is not possible to say much based on its database entries. Even Mike Breeden qualified large drive support for eMacs with this comment on a report from last November:
"Mike Comments: (reader FYI - the FAQ's iMac section has link to PDF Superdrive install guide for eMacs. eMac later models at least have native big drive support - i.e. not limited to 128GB HD capacity like older macs.)"
Only three entries say they had a 700 Mhz eMac and were able to use a drive larger than 128 GB. One had to initialize the drive in a Firewire case on another system first to get the full capacity. So the final determining piece of information needed might be the date of manufacture of the specific eMac 700 getting a hard drive upgrade.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
Specifically they state models introduced after June 2002. The original eMac was introduced in April 2002. Now it is possible there was a silent change during production before the 800 MHz and 1 GHz ATI graphics models officially came out with large drive support, and some later 700 MHz eMacs can support large drives. But that is only possible under OS X, and was not announced. Don't know how you would be able to tell except by trying a large drive, and in this case it looks like the answer is no.
As for xlr8yourmac, most of the entries for eMacs do not say which model. So it is not possible to say much based on its database entries. Even Mike Breeden qualified large drive support for eMacs with this comment on a report from last November:
"Mike Comments: (reader FYI - the FAQ's iMac section has link to PDF Superdrive install guide for eMacs. eMac later models at least have native big drive support - i.e. not limited to 128GB HD capacity like older macs.)"
Only three entries say they had a 700 Mhz eMac and were able to use a drive larger than 128 GB. One had to initialize the drive in a Firewire case on another system first to get the full capacity. So the final determining piece of information needed might be the date of manufacture of the specific eMac 700 getting a hard drive upgrade.