Since everybody is wriling about this drive issue I'd thought I'd share my experiences, which were a complete success.
I have a 4.2gb 10,000rpm hard drive in my Quadra 800. There is only one 4.2gb partition, and its running fine every day with system 7.5.3. How on earth did I do that? When I booted from a 7.5.3 CD and tried to format it from that, it wanted to do the standard "no partitions over 2gb" thing, but I hate having too many icons on my desktop so I searched for a way around that. So I booted from a MacOS 8.0cd and formated the hard drive with one 4.2gb partition. But when I booted from the 7.5.3cd afterwards, I would not recognize the hard drive whatsoever. So then I booted back into the MacOS 8.0cd, and made one of the boot floppys from the images on the cd. Then I booted from the 8.0 boot floppy, which booted fine and recognized the hard drive, and then I put the system 7.5.3 cd in and did a complete 7.5.3 install while booted into 8.0. Everything installed fine, and the Quadra now boots up fine into 7.5.3 on the 4.2gb partition. -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
