Mark,
Your last suggestion of partitioning the drive in a later Mac model, ie: G4 tower works well.
If you need to boot in OS 9, you'll need the first partition to be no larger than 8 GB. If you partition the drive using Mac OS X, make sure the first partition is NOT over 7.4 GB (7.3 is even safer) and make sure you include the Mac OS 9 drivers.
Partitioning it using OS 9, an 8GB partition is fine for the first partition.
All other partitions need to be under the 128� GB limit. Keep them about 124� GB to be safe as Mac OS X measures the partition size differently. OS 9 is a bit more accurate for the partition size limit. It's just a different way of counting.
Patrick Brentwood Bay, BC -------------------
At 6:22 PM -0500 2/15/05, Mark D. Chapman wrote:
I know a B&W can't access a HD larger than 120 MB but can it format and partition a larger drive and then access all the partitions? What if the drive was partitioned on a different computer?
Thanks, Mark --
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