on 11/4/03 4:21 PM, Chris Wickersham at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I beg to differ. I had a 9600 with a PCI IDE card and a 20GB drive > attached. (And a Radeon 7000 and a g4 800 upgrade). I had OS 9 installed > on the built in ~2GB drive and used that to launch the (unsupported) OS X > install. The installer formatted all 20GB (or thereabouts) and ran the > install with no problems. I too though that I would only be able to use 8GB > of the disk. I copied ~10GB of stuff to the drive after the install and was > convinced. I believe the limitation is that the kernel ( I could be off > base here) has to be located within the first 8GB of space on the disk but > the partition can extend much farther. i.e. I don't think you could have a > 10GB partition on the disk with OS 9 and a 10GB partition with OS X also. > However, I would guess that a 5GB OS 9 partition and a 15GB OS X partition > would coexist nicely (I'm just guessing here, it might be that the > limitation is much smaller than 8GB but it's hard to remember all this stuff > as I sold the 9600 about 3 months ago).
I seem to remember hearing that the 8GB limit depends on the ATA controller card, not on the computer itself. Some ATA PCI cards are affected, and some are not. Hopefully someone here can correct me if I'm wrong, or back me up (with a list of cards or chipsets or whatever would be great) if I'm right. -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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
