How do I get past the 127GB limit?

So I'm trying to get my western digital 160 GB drive to work in my old crt slot. I had to partition the drive to 8 GB and 120 GB, in order to install OS 10.3. However it only let me partition that out of 128GB. I'm wondering how I can get the rest of my drive space without messing with the controller. On a PC I just have to partition the 160 into 2 80 GB partitions. How would one do this on a mac?

The only way to get an iMac to "see" more than 128 Gb is to plug it into the FireWire port. You could try getting a friend to partition the drive, but there is no guarantee that your iMac's interface would be able to access all the drive space.
The limitation is the IDE/ATA interface that is an integral part of the motherboard. If you had a tower-type Mac, you can use larger drives by adding a newer IDE interface card.
This is a hardware limitation. Them thangs are very tough to work around.
Check the IDE Hard Drive deals at dealmac.com Here's a Link There's nothing smaller than 200 Gb there now, but I've seen smaller drives for under $40
Good luck.

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