At 12:13 AM -0400 10/22/05, Donald Watson wrote:
Hello Folks,
I am asking for a little help on this one, can't seem to find my
missing gigabytes. I am setting up a server at home in order to hold
all my files in one place instead of having them scattered among 3
Macs making backups a pain. I have done this before and usually it's
a no brainer. The server is actually using appletalk to share files
across an ethernet network to my other machines. The host machine is
a G3 tan running os 8.1 and since all my ata ports are full, I
installed a sonnet ata 133 card in order to give myself the extra
space and a used apple 10 Gb drive.
Reformatted the drive and the system reported 9.4 GB free space.
Turned on file sharing for that volume and checked from the other
machines making sure that I could see it before moving all the files
from the other machines to the new drive. This is where it gets
hinky; all the other machines can see the new drive but they all
also report only 1.9 GB free space. I am running a mix of 10.3.8,
10.2.8, and 9.2.1 on the other Macs. They all report the same thing
only 1.9 GB free on the drive.
I have done this sort of thing since back in the day with everything
from Mac SE's on up but this is the first time this has happened.
I'm thinking this has something to do with the Sonnet card. Has
anyone had any experience with this? I went to Sonnets site but
there is no information on this kind of problem. I could ask for
tech help but this being the weekend they probly won't get back to
me until Tuesday or Wednesday. I really would like to get this
running this weekend.
Let me guess, none of your previous servers had a harddrive bigger than 2Gb.
Older versions of the AppleShare protocol were limited to REPORTING
2Gb of free space. And OS 8.1 is definitely older. This doesn't
affect what you can store on it.
There is one side effect. Sometimes the reported free space is very
low even though there is plenty of space. Some programs see this and
determine there is no room to save a file. A "Save As..." will
usually still work though.
If you can I'd suggest upgrading the server to 9.1 or better. It
might avoid this problem (I don't know which version fixed this
issue). And you can enable Appleshare over IP which is faster at
file transfers.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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