[G4] big hard drives-9.1?

[Send2Rich at aol.com]

See this thread in the Apple OS 9 discussions:
     http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=636618&#636618

Even if you add an LBA 48 compliant drive, you won't be able to boot OS 9 
from any partition larger than about 190GB, which is probably much larger than 
you'll ever need for OS 9 and applications.   Your data files can reside on any 
mounted partition.

I've got a copy of my OS X 10.4 "Classic" OS 9 System Folder and Application 
folder (no OS X) on a 20GB partition on a 400GB Seagate drive.   It boots fine 
and all the applications run fine.

Rich

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> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:15:49 -0800
> From: Philip J Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [G4] big hard drives-9.1?
> 
> 
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:23 PM, bill ritchey wrote:
> 
> g4 400 & maybe a dual g4 later- needs to boot into 9  thanks
> 
> The only way you're going to get 500+ GiB under OS 9.1 booted natively 
> is with an ATA or SATA PCI card that both works with OS 9.1 and has 
> large drive support or to use Firewire (USB would be too slow). The 
> feature you're looking for is known as LBA 48, which is part of the 
> ATA-6 spec.
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