No. The disk controller sees a drive as a single device. Partitions are an OS-level convenience. With SCSI target disk mode, *on a susceptible machine* the moment you write beyond 4GB of data to a device, it wraps around to the beginning of the device and continues writing.
To play devil's advocate... ;-)
If you partition a disk so that the first partition falls within the first 3.5 GB (or so) of the disk, then ONLY mount that partition, you can be safe with SCSI disk mode and file transfers.
Yeah, the controller/ROM has the bug. But the controller _does_ see the partitions, even when in SCSI Disk Mode. The partition is restricted to just the first 3.5 GB of space, so there's no danger of writing past the 4 GB rollover limit. However, the second you write any data to any of the other partitions, your disk is hosed.
Also, to be more precise, the problem isn't the amount of data on the drive, it's whether or not you've got enough free blocks in the first 4 GB to take whatever data you are copying to the disk. On a freshly defragged disk, all the data should be shoved to the beginning blocks, leaving the later blocks empty...
So if you have 4 GB of data, and your disk is heavily fragmented, there _MIGHT_ be enough free blocks in the first 4 GB of disk space to allow you to copy small files safely.... ;-) But now I'm just splitting hairs. Please don't take this as an excuse to destroy your data by hooking it up in SDM!
Clearly, the safest thing to do is use ethernet. Follow Dan's advice, don't listen to me! ;-)
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