On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Are Hansen wrote:
Do I understand this right: the Beige can use big hard drives, but OSX on that machine only sees the first 8 gigs?
This is possibly the most mis-understood facet of OS X on beiges. I've heard about 5000 versions of this issue.
OS X must be installed within a single partition in the first 8-gigabytes of a drive. It can see the other partitions.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235>
And if this has something to do with the built in ATA-interface, could I put in an ATA PCI card and get around it? Guess that would give a speed boost too.
Can anyone recommend a good/cheap such card?
Yes. OWC has SIIG cards pretty cheap. I have one, works just fine. My boot drive is 120GB, unpartitioned.
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