The drives that I have hooked up to my pci-ide card show up as scsi drives. When I installed 10.2.8 it did tell me I had an 8gig limit on the partition with the system on it.
Mike on 6/29/04 4:49 PM, Paul Corsa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It depends on the card. If the card is seen as "SCSI' the 8MB limitation > won't apply. Other cards, like the VST are seen as IDE and the > limitation does apply. Even from one vendor like Sonnet you may have > some cards of each type, depending on who they contracted to make > them.Paul C > > Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: > >> ON: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:05:53 -0700 (PDT) >> Steve Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Wrote: >> >>> An S900 would have the limitations of >>> whatever card you put in to get an IDE bus. Sorry for >>> the confusion. >> >> >> Steve: >> My dim memory seems to tell me that the ATA133 cards cause the S900 to >> see the ATA drives as SCSI so the limitations of the Apple IDE >> machines do not apply. >> Some one please correct me if I am wrong. >> >> Ernie >> > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
