[G4] big hard drives-9.1?

[Philip J Robar]

On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Send2Rich at aol.com wrote:

> 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.

Unfortunately, the thread you reference above doesn't provide any  
references to support the claim that OS 9 can't access volumes larger  
than 190 GB. And since the thread is closed there's no way to ask the  
person who made the claim.

This claim directly conflicts with Apple's documentation which states  
that OS 9 can access up to 2 TiB:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24601. I did a Google  
search and found one reference to this 190 GB limit in response to a  
person who was having a problem booting OS 9 on a 250 GB drive, but is  
was only repeating the information in the Apple Forum thread.

Phil
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