On Sep 14, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Clark Martin wrote:

> Be careful using SCSI Disk Mode on a Wallstreet.  There is a problem
> with data corruption on drives above a certain size.  I don't remember
> the particulars but you should be able to find it at Apple's support  
> page.



The SCSI disk mode bug was if you write to higher than the 4 gig mark  
on a drive, SCSI disk mode wraps and starts writing at sector 1 again.  
You CAN use SCSI disk mode with drives > 4 gigs, so long as you don't  
write that far...I successfully installed the OS on my PB5300 with a 6  
G drive that way, but I only wrote about 2.5 gigs of data to a blank  
drive.

And I thought that was fixed in the Wall Street?


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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