On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:01 AM, Aaron wrote:
From: Will Schoumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:04:20 -0800
From: ansberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:31:20 -0600 Found an ata133 ide controller on the swap list. It's made by Acard. Does anyone know if these work okay in our old S900's with OSX?
Mike
The Acard(SIIG is the same) is a great choice for your Umax machine. I
like the fact that it doesn't have the 8GB limit on OSX like the Sonnet
100&133 (and VST ATA 66)cards do. By the way if you were able to put
OSX on a 10GB partition then that card doesn't have an OSX limit as
it's 8 GB and not 10 GB as you mentioned. I stuck with my Sonnet/Acard
66 and currently running 3 hard drives on it which gets around the size
limits. Will S
Doesn't that 8GB limit mean only that the OS X boot volume has to be within the first 8GB of the disk? Can't OS X access files on volumes anywhere on the disk?
I briefly had Jaguar running on my machine last year, but I don't remember if I got around to using it to access non-boot volumes.
- Aaron
As Mike said you need to partition the first 8 GB of your drive for OSX . But only if using an ATA PCI card which sees the hard drive as IDE. This is for the VST ATA 66 and Sonnet ATA 100 & 133 & Trio ATA cards . Yes , the other partitions of the drive and other drives will show up and be usable in OSX. The down side which may not be apparent at first. If you install and use a lot of apps 8GB isn't all that big and is smaller then it sounds. In order for OSX to work well you need 20 percent of your OSX boot drive empty. Once it gets down to 10 percent empty you run into all sorts of problems. All sorts of odd things start happening and it's not apparent why. You can also run into files being over written which can lead to loosing data. OSX uses the empty drive space for swap files. Also when doing Video work for example large amounts of space are used for temporary files. If this space isn't available you will get slow downs & file over writes and some apps will crash. Sure you can avoid some of this by putting apps on a different partition but that causes other issues. Such as Apple Apps will not be updated when installing an Apple OS update. Mac OSX doesn't like files to be moved from where they were installed.So while I'd say use what you have. If your buying a new ATA card I recommend buying the Acard/ SIIG ATA 133 card. As you can make the OSX boot drive as large as you like and not have the above issues. Will S
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