To be more specific about the system, it's a 9600/233 upgraded with a CarrierZif/G3/350 (apple processor). The drive in question is an 80 gb IBM Deskstar GFX120, connected to a VST UltraTek-66 IDE card (Promise chipset). There's also a 1 gb SCSI drive on board, but it's really only being used to terminate the internal SCSI chain, so that the stock SCSI CDrom drive can be used. The VST card does indeed masquerade as a SCSI controller like most other IDE cards, but the 8 gb first partition limit for OSX is present nonetheless. I originally formatted the IBM drive with a first partition of exactly 8 gb (8192 mb), and OSX drive setup does report this as an 8.0 gb partition. I've been running OSX on this partition just fine through versions 10.0 - 10.1.5, but 10.2 seems to want a partition that's actually smaller than exactly 8 gb. Last night I reluctantly reformated the drive with a first partition of 7.5 gb, and I'm now running OSX 10.2.
-tb On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 09:32 AM, Robyn Lyons wrote: > Question, he has a 9500. Isn't the 8GB limit only for IDE drives, not > SCSI, also, if you are using a Sonnet Tempo card (the 66 or 100 only), > those IDE drives will not be limited also. He didn't mention what kind > of HD he had, so this may be moot. > -- 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
