Re: HD partition G3 beige

[Trevor Zylstra]

Well, that's not an ATA card, that's an Ultra160 SCSI card.  If you 
have or want to buy Ultra160 SCSI drives, then yes that would overcome 
the 8 GB limitation.  (Also note that I've never been too happy with 
Adaptec's OS X drivers.)  However, if you have ATA drives, or don't 
want to pay the premium cost for buying Ultra160 SCSI drives, then no, 
that won't help.  ATA (in older versions it was also called IDE, or 
EIDE) drives are much cheaper and unless you are on the bleeding edge 
of expense they are typically faster.  The internal drive that shipped 
with the beige G3 is ATA, and whatever drive you have in there 
currently must also be ATA if you've got that 8GB limitation.

For example, the link below has several ATA adapters sold by Sonnet, 
some of which are made by Acard, others are made by Promise: 
http://sonnettech.com/product/pci_adptrs.html

Here is Acard's site (not terribly user friendly): 
http://www.acard.com/eng/

Trevor

Victor Salbashian wrote:
I have an adaptec 29160n  would this work??
I wrote:
No, upgrading the processor won't help do what you want.  If you want
to get around the stupid 8 GB OS X boot partition limitation, you need
to buy a new ATA card.  This will also help speed up disk input and
output, since the ATA built-in to the motherboard is now quite dated.
I like the Acard ATA cards, btw.
Victor Salbashian wrote:
I have a G3 300 Beige and hate the fact that I can't have a bigger
partion than 8gb in OS X, My question is if I upgrade the processer
can
I get around that problem, i don't want to go to the blue and white
because i want floppy, zip and other connectors.


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