On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:15:58PM +0000, Dave Quebbeman wrote: > I got a 9 GB SCSI SE drive in an external case from work, used Hard Disk > Toolkit to take it down to 2 GB partitions, and hooked it up to a Mac II with > System 7.5.5. The drive mounts fine, reads and writes OK, but...
Many old systems were limited to 2 GB partitions, particularly for the boot partition. I suggest making the boot partition somewhat less than 2 GB and placing it at the start of the drive (just to be sure it doesn't go over the boundary, since the driver partitions use several kB as well). Also, unless you are dealing with a few large files, the smaller the partition the better. For HFS, the cluster size becomes quite large on 1 GB and larger partitions. Byron. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
