1) There is a 2 gb limit on disks. Actually. whole disks, not just partitions. Any program I use that is compatible with MacOS 7.5.3 and earlier (the last version to use HD SC Setup) tells me that the 4 gb Seagate is damaged, yet any program compatible with MacOS >7.5.3 has no problem with the drive. It will initialize, partition, and mount with the Apple Drive Setup in 9.1 with exactly the same termination and cabling. For none-Apple hd's under 2 gb, though, you should try Apple HD SC Setup 3.0.1 for A/UX, from: http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/hdsetup.html I'm sure there are some FAQ's around talking about this, but I do recall now that way back when I had to partition a new 9 gb Seagate as 5 partitions in order for my PowerTower 180 to see the drive under MacOS 7.5.3.
2) Termination power IS required for drives plugged into the Plus. I suspect that the Apple ROM Quantum is supplying this by default, because when I plug in a terminator with a power LED in it and the LED lights when the Apple drive is plugged in. When I partitioned the 4 gb with 100 mb partitions under the System 9.1 and tried it, when I left the jumpers at "Termination Enable", "TP from BUS" as it had to be for the 8600, the Plus didn't recognize it. When I switched it to "Termination Enable", "TP from DRIVE", the Plus recognized it but put up an error message saying that the partition was over 4 gb and it couldn't recognize it - there were 4 x 100 mb Mac Standard partitions from the OS 9.1 Drive Setup and the rest unallocated space.
Hope this helps.
Stephen
On Dec 5, 2003, at 10:04 pm, Stephen wrote:
Does anyone know the maximum size disk partition allowed for a Plus running System 6.0.5? I've only got a 4 gb Seagate to experiment with and I want to make sure I don't exceed the limit. Maybe I should just put a couple of 100 mb partitions on just for a test.
Probably advisable. AFAIK System 6 has a 2GB upper limit on partition size. That's based on 6.0.8 though so YMMV.
-- Mark Benson
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