first thanks for the help apple's drive setup does allow 2G, 9G and 17G drives to boot on my 8100/80 and 8100/100
the problem i have is using FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit (HDT) to format and supply the driver. the FWB jackhammer card i have needs the FWB driver to get the most out of the SCSI card more info 8100/80, with FWB's driver: - does boot with partitions <2G - does NOT boot with partitions >2G, i.e. 4G, 9G and 17G, all NG 8100/100, with FWB's driver: - does boot with all partitions, i.e. 2G, 4G 9G and 17G the problem i have with the 8100/100 is that the slower bus speed slows done my 300Mhx G3 card to 266Mhz still ARGHH jim looks like i may have a workaround, for my 17G disk on my 8100/80 with jackhammer. partition it into a 2g and a 15G partition. then load the sys folder onto the 2G partition and the rest onto the 15G partition. boots fine 2G or less. should work..... > I can confirm that both an 8100/100 and an 8100/110 will boot from an 18 GB > SCSI drive on the internal SCSI bus when the drives are formatted with the > version of Apple Drive Setup included with OS 8.1. Like Jeff Garrison, I > suspect the issue you are running up against is your formatter program, not > the SCSI subsystem on the 8100 motherboard. > > Trevor Zylstra > > >> On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:30 PM, Jim Page wrote: >> >> got a weird one here, was wondering if anyone can recreate and/or confirm >> >> - PowerMac 8100/80, MACOS 8.6, 264M, seagate ST39216N - 9 Gig 50 pin drive >> >> - using Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0 to initialize 9G disk as a 9G partition and >> then boot >> >> problem: - 8100/80 refuses to boot from 9G disk with good Sys folder >> >> other info: - 8100/100 boots fine from the 9G with HDT driver - 8100/80 >> boots fine with <2G partition with HDT driver - tried several 8100/80 system >> boards, all refuse to boot with >2G partitions - also tried HDT 4.5, same >> problem - 8100/100 has a slower bus speed, so it clocks down my 300Mhz G3 to >> 266, ARGHH - contacted FWB support, no help, they say use <2G partitions - >> double - ARGHH !!!! >> >> was wondering if anyone can confirm that their 8100/80 can't boot from a > >> 2G HDT partition >> >> extra credit.... - to see if an 8100/110 can boot from a > 2G HDT partition >> >> TIA, >> >> jim -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
