Re: 8 gig limit on Beige

[John Wilson]

I did something similar to this. When OS X Beta was released I couldn't 
get it to install on my upgraded Beige G3 (450 ZIF overclocked to 501) 
internal drive so I installed it to an external SCSI drive (2 gig) and 
then took that drive and installed it as an internal SCSI in the Beige. 
That was one of the great things about the Beige: both IDE and SCSI 
internal buses on the mobo. At one point I had 4 rather small hard 
drives just kind of crammed into it: one on the floor (original 4 gig 
IDE drive), two SCSI drives (both 2 gig) in the extra two bays on the 
right front of the machine, and a free floating IDE (20 gig) drive just 
kinda laying on top of the RAM and stuff. They all worked but I had to 
get a Rev B ROM chip before I could add the IDE drive. Also had all the 
PCI slots filled (ixTV tuner, Apple DOS, ATI video), ethernet port 
(cable modem), both serial ports (printers), external SCSI (CD-R drive) 
and a couple of extra ADB devices (FM radio, drawing tablet), as well 
as two monitors (19 inch and 21 inch). That was a great, stable, but 
very hot machine, although the heat never caused any problems. John

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 07:42  PM, Jerry Buc wrote:

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 02:42 PM, Larry Blodgett wrote:

Very interesting. Has anyone else transferred a prebuilt disk to a 
beige G3 and it worked?  This would be the solution to a big 
limitation.  Just build the disk on a G4 in a firewire box and move 
it to the beige.
Agree, this is interesting. Odd that no one has attempted that before. 
Hope to hear from others who try it.
Kudos to Marcelo.

Jerry

Hi guys, this is my first message, I am from Brazil.

A few days ago I installed my imac DV 20GB HD on my beige G3 for 
backup purposes. And it worked! Well, the surprise is cause it has 
booted on OSX installed on a 16GB partition. So the 8GB limits is 
for installation only. I didn't know that.

Marcelo Maia


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