From: Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:32:55 +1100
If only there was some way to get the word out regarding the much mentioned 8gb limit of Old World Macs. This makes it clear that if you repeat something often enough it will be believed true or not ;-) The only Macs with this limit are Beige G3's using the on board ide bus and machines with VST and Sonnet/Promise IDE PCI cards added. Which means any machine with SCSI drives as OSX boot drives and Acard IDE PCI cards aren't effected. Acard also makes the SGII & Sonnet ATA 66 cards. They also don't have the 8gb issue. MAYBE IF I SHOUT PEOPLE WILL HEAR THIS AND QUIT PRINTING BAD INFO ?????YOU THINK??????
. Best of luck Will S
Will,
If it's not an issue with other macs then why when I went to install Jaguar on my Seagate Baracutta 4 - 40GB 7200rpm, hanging off sonnet ATA 100 PCI adapter flashed with ltest BIOS as a primary IDE device set as master did the installer report back to me that the partition needs to be less than 8GB? Yet it installed fine on original 4Gb SCSI drive
Read my post and the info is there ;-) It's because your using Sonnet ATA 100 card which uses the so called Promise chip and Firmtek firmware. Only the Sonnet ATA 66 and 133 Raid cards are made by Acard. (which are the ones without the 8 gb limit) which means the Sonnet 100/133 and 133 trio cards are all Promise 8 gb limited cards.
Yes good point but someone talked me into trying the OS 9.2x helper...I no longer use OS 9.x except to archive email once a week or so and for booting utility Cd's as needed. I haven't used classic in like a year. Once my apps were all updated I no longer needed it.
I agree with your sentiments regarding OS 9.1 - infact you could have kept 9.1 by grabbing the OpenGL stuff using something like Tombe viewer to extract files from 9.2.x tombe and placing them into 9.1 system folder. I did this with 9600 running 9.1 and radeon 7000 and it worked fine - I then also upgraded using ATI reatil update which also worked fine for me as well....sorry strayed off list topic a bit here....
Simon
Will S
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