[G4] big hard drives-9.1?

[Send2Rich at aol.com]

The boot partition size problem is not the same as the OS 9 2TB access limit. 
  Something about large partitions inhibits OS 9's booting very early in the 
process - you get an alternating happy Mac and "no system" floppy icon.   I 
have personally seen this situation on two separate 500GB drives and two 
separate 400GB drives, all of them with single large partitions.   OS 9 boots fine in 
a 75GB partition on a 200GB drive.   It also boots fine on a 20GB partition 
on a 400GB drive.   Once booted into OS 9, I have had no problem accessing data 
on 461GB, 368GB and 348GB partitions - but OS 9 will not boot on any of them. 
  Classic under OS X seems to work "OK" (occasional anomalies) on any of 
them.

Since the only "documentation" on the OS 9 boot limit is the Apple discussion 
reference to 190GB (and I guess my experience above), I'll keep my OS 9 boot 
partitions under 190GB.   If anyone figures out how to boot OS 9 on larger 
partitions, please let us know the details!

Thanks!
Rich

> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:59:10 -0800
> From: Philip J Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [G4] big hard drives-9.1?
> 
> 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...
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.
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