On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:26 AM, steve roche wrote: > Hello- > I'm wondering if this should matter or not. I changed the HD on my Pismo a > year ago, > and put in a Seagate 80 gig model. When installing it, the Pismo told me I > needed to partition it, and asked how many I would like. I settled on 2 (I > really didn't care); it told me > I should choose more than two, so I chose more. I tried four, six, eight, > and so on. Each time, it told me that the partition would be too large, so > choose a higher number for a lower amount of space in each one. The Pismo > settled on 10 partitions, > which puts each one at just under 8 gigs each.
Didn't you post this previously? It sounds familiar. Are you sure this is a Pismo. The WallStreet has an 8Gb first partition limit but neither the Lombard nor the Pismo (the two subsequent models) have such a limit. The Pismo has FireWire and USB while the WallStreet has neither. I have a Pismo on which I partitioned the 120 Gb HD into two but I only did that in order to dual boot it into Ubuntu and Mac OS X. The 60Gb Mac Partition has no problems. What you describes sounds like a WallStreet, the Installer will tell you it can't install into a partition over 8Gb but It's only the first partition that is limited, the second partition can fill the rest of the drive. The exact size of the partition is a bit iffy, the partition has to be completely within the first 8Gb of the HD so the maximum size of the partition depends on the various little partitions at the beginning of the HD including the partition table. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
