G5 2.3ghz DP support for 3TB as boot drive?

Hi all,
I've read mixed reports as to whether the G5's can use the newer 3TB drives as boot drives? I have box running 10.4.11 and want to fill both drive bays with 3TB drives. Don't plan on RAIDing them just want to make sure I can use one them as a boot drive.
Cheers.

OK, you can put 3 TB drives in and so long as they can throttle back to SATA-1, you will be OK there.  However, there is a rub having to do with Apple Partition Map (APM).
G5 computers must boot from an APM drive.  GUID will not work.  Unfortunately, the largest partition size that APM will support is about 2.2 TB.  Thus, to get full use of your 3TB as a boot device, you would have to partition it into at least two partitions, neither of which is greater than about 2.2 TB, using Apple Partition Map.  This should be doable, but I haven't gotten a 3TB drive to try it on, so YMMV.  Nonetheless, the PPC Macs can only boot from an APM disc.

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