I thought SCSI had a 2TB limit, IDE has the 120GB size limitations. I would expect you can have up to the 2TB limit on the SCSI bus, but the 8GB on the IDE bus.

As for the OS, what I read was the even a lowly Mac Plus can handle 2TB on OS 7.5.x without issues. (Although I would not want to be the one to rebuild the desktop on that one!!)

Tom
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On Jan 22, 2005, at 10:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

At 1:18 PM -0700 1/22/05, Steve Haybeck wrote:
Hi all,

I have a G3 Beige Desktop powermac. I would like to add a scsi drive.
It has a connection at the back of the motherboard for a 50 pin scsi. I
have a slot available just above the Zip drive and next to the floppy
drive. What is the largest drive I can use? Can I use a later 68 or 80
pin drive with an adapter? There is not much room so I wonder if this
is possible.

AFAIK, you can go up to 120gigs on that (though remember, you're still constrained to the 8gigs-on-first-partition-for-boot-drive rule on a beige). Maybe more if you partition - others here should be able to give you a more definitive answer. Yes, you sh
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