On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 03:59 PM, Richard Smykla wrote:
> Phil,
>
>> You wrote:
>>> The ATA/66 cards emulate a SCSI card, which means the 8 GB first
>>> partition limit for OS X on IDE drives in Old World Machines does not
>> apply.
>
> In using a VST UltraTek/66 card with my 7600, I found that I could
> *not* install to a partition larger than 8GB. I'm not sure whether
> this was an issue with the card, or some other variable of the
> machine's architecture. Just a word of caution here.
>
> Rick
>
Perhaps you are missing the point....The Acard/Sonnet/66 cards see the
drives as SCSI so are not affected by the 8 GB limit which IDE drives
are. The VST cards see the drives as IDE(in OSX- I think they see them
as SCSi in OS 9.x but not sure and it doesn't really matter ...) so
they are affected by the 8gb limit just as the Beige G3 with there ide
drives are. I hope that is clear now.
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