Craig, it doesn't seem to always work but 10.3 is supposed to be able to read most NTFS volumes. There is NO write access whatsoever. I can confirm I've seen this in action with an NTFS-formatted Firewire HD.

Sorry, but that is also incorrect. The limitation was hardware related, specifically coding in the bios. The disks supplied in hard drive boxes are little firmware applets that override the bios, hence they are mostly called EZ bios or something to that effect. They are most annoying and I suggest you never install it. Also, since its a hardware limitation they have jumper settings on the drive to limit the size the 32 gigs. If it were just software limitations they would not need that jumper setting. That is also why you can go buy and IDE controller, and remedy the problem. If it was a software problem an IDE controller would not fix it. The reason the new controller card does fix it, is because the system will use the card's bios and not the motherboard's bios to handle the IDE devices.

here go some links:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/166.htm#3
http://www.1960pcug.org/~pcnews/2002...isk_limits.htm
http://www.makeitsimple.com/sections...rtid=10&page=2


FAT 32 partitions support terrabytes in size:

http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q154/9/97.ASP

win2k only supports 32gig limit, but win2k was when MS first merged NTFS and FAT32 into one OS, before it was either win98 or winnt. Now, with windows xp, its all just NTFS.

Furthermore, in addition to the BIOS limitations, the IDE controllers themselves had limitations of a 137GB, until recently with the newest revisions of EIDE controllers out there.

Now, if you go buy/build a brand new computer you should not experience any of these limitations. Since most of the limitations were due to older hardware, older bios versions and older firmware, and older versions of the OSes.