On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
Ext Seagate 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4
1. There is a limit on hds, something like 180 Mb, but does this
apply to External USB drives? Shows on dt as 500 ok.
No limit.
2. What if partitioned into 5 100Gbs, will we be able to access each
one?
Yes but why?
3. Can we start up from External USB drive as in OS9, OS10,2, 3, 4,
5? Is there any difference in the OS and start up?
No, No, No, Maybe-ish, 10.5 won't run on that machine without serious
hacking.. I think later versions of OS X may have enabled USB booting
for some Macs that didn't in earlier versiosn but it's all USB1.1,
which is so slow as to be unusable for booting anyway.
4. Was intending to put OS9 in partition 1, OS10.2 in partition 2,
and so on. Any good or bad ideas on this?
Whatever for? just go with OS 9 and the latest version of OS X it'll
run (which is 10.4) There is no good reason to run an older version of
OS X on a Mac. I haven't run into ANY software, for instance, that
ONLY runs in 10.2 that hasn[t been updated or isn't superceded by
later versions of the OS.
No need to partition it off, either. OS 9 and OS X can happily coexist
on the same partition (just remember to check the OS 9 drivers box
when reformatting the disk, which you're going to have to do, by
default they come with FAT or no drive formatting at all.
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