Re: [SM] Installing Panther on S900

[Paul Corsa]

I believe the confusion is over how different ATA cards react. The 
Sonnett (Acard) ATA66 is seen as a SCSI by system profiler, and the 8GB 
partition doesn't apply. The VST 66 and some of the later Sonnet cards 
are seen as IDE and do require the 8GB partition limit, as did the Beige 
G3 Mac with IDE Drive. It depends on the chip in the card you have and 
how it is seen by the computer. Paul C

Steve Hardy wrote:
Well, like I said, I could be wrong. Which also means
I don't know why I had trouble with X before the 80
gig drive. Darn. I thought I'd figured it out, but the
other drives I was using were all SCSI. Oh well.
--- Dan Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

From: Steve Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
     

I could be wrong about this(and probably am), but I
thought that installing any version of X on older
machines requires that the whole OS fits in an 8
     

Gig
   

partition (or the first 8 gigs of a volume larger
     

than
   

8 gigs... which I think is risky.)
     

The 8 gig limitation only applies to IDE drives on
old machines.   SCSI is 
unaffected.    I personally have 10.3.5 on an S900
on greater than 8 gig 
SCSI drives.    My S900 is all SCSI just to
eliminate this issue.

Dan
   

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