Re: SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-05 Thread martin
Can anyone answer this SE/30 Maximum HD size question with authority? A little voice in the back of my head is whispering about a 2GB limit (possibly an OS-driven HFS issue?). I've been looking for a bigger drive for my much-loved but ancient SE/30, currently wheezing along with a 500MB drive,

Re: SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-05 Thread Gamba
Can anyone answer this SE/30 Maximum HD size question with authority? A little voice in the back of my head is whispering about a 2GB limit (possibly an OS-driven HFS issue?). The maximum HD size is determined by which System software is used. With 7.5 or higher the limit is greater than 2GB.

Re: SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-05 Thread Steve Fuller
I have put a 2GB SCSI drive in my SE/30 and it recognized it just fine. However, the OS limited the partition size. If you can live with multiple partitions, get a big drive and install it. Steve On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Gamba wrote: Can anyone answer this SE/30 Maximum HD

Re: SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-05 Thread hutchison
Can anyone answer this SE/30 Maximum HD size question with authority? A little voice in the back of my head is whispering about a 2GB limit (possibly an OS-driven HFS issue?). I've been looking for a bigger drive for my much-loved but ancient SE/30, currently wheezing along with a 500MB drive,

Re: [Compact Macs]Re: SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-05 Thread Marcelus G. Zalotti
on 04/06/2003 12:40, Gamba at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone answer this SE/30 Maximum HD size question with authority? A little voice in the back of my head is whispering about a 2GB limit (possibly an OS-driven HFS issue?). The maximum HD size is determined by which System software

Re: SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-05 Thread Antonio Rodríguez
Gamba ha escrito: The maximum HD size is determined by which System software is used. With 7.5 or higher the limit is greater than 2GB. See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=11333 But the ROM has to look for a System Folder in the disk. If the ROM supports HFS only, how can it

SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-04 Thread Joe WF Runnels
I heard the SE/30s can take any size hdd? What is the biggest anyone has gotten to work? Does anyone know whata radius pivot card does? my SE/30 has one, I thought it was for an external monitor, but there is no monitor connector in the expansion whole thingy... I just love these compacts!

Re: SE/30 drive size?

2003-06-04 Thread Stuart Bell
On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 06:43 AM, Joe WF Runnels wrote: Does anyone know whata radius pivot card does? my SE/30 has one, I thought it was for an external monitor, but there is no monitor connector in the expansion whole thingy... It is. I suspect that it came in two parts, like