Connected to a Sonnet Tempo ATA66 I have been running OSX in a 15GB partition ever since I first installed. Never had any problems. I don't have a large SCSI to test that out though. IDE drives are the only ones that require an 8GB partition. The reason why Will and I have IDE drives that work is because the Sonnet Tempo fools the computer into thinking that they are SCSI drives. Drives connected to a VST and Sonnet Tempo 133 (maybe the 100 also) are seen as IDE drives, so they have the limit.
-Robyn On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 01:14 PM, Will S wrote: > t's far from a sure thing at this point that this is an issue with > all old world Macs. It is possible that it is. The Beige G3 is the > only Official problem machine. However it is the one OLD World Mac > that Apple supports. They may have put some check in that puts all > old world Macs in the the same class for installing. There are two > ways of measuring GB's for drive sizes. The one which drive makers > use is 1000mb = 1GB This lets them list there drives as larger then > they would be at the more correct 1024mb= 1gb So to be on the safe > side if you need the partition to be 8 GB or smaller...I'd use 8000mb > = 8 GB > If I had more time I'd do an install to see if this is also true with > the Sonnet/Acard PCI cards which are seen as SCSI drives in both OS > 8/9.x and OSX. Anyone else do an install on a larger then 8 GB > partition or a partition which is beyond the 8 GB mark? I can say > that when installing it was possible for me to chose a beyond 8 GB > partition. I clicked on the other partitions just to see and it > excepted them for installing. This was with a Sonnet/Acard ATA 66 > card on a UMAX J700 machine. Will S -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
