[Ti] 80 GB HD warnings

[Paul Russell]

>I put a fresh 80 GB drive into a friend's TiBook which was here and 
>we erased it and installed the system off the same system DVD I had 
>used to install on my Big Als, without success. The TiBook exhibited 
>the same failure mode as the Big Als. Very shortly after booting a 
>dialog comes up saying to hit the power button to shut down.
>
>Then we partitioned the drive, with the largest partition being 
>about 50 GB, erased it, and installed a sytem again. The install 
>went normally, as before, but this time the disk booted up 
>successfully.
>
>So there appears to be some volume size limitation, and it applies 
>to both TiBooks and Big Als.

Interesting - 64Gb is 36 bits, which seems an unlikely number at 
which to have some sort of limitation, but who knows ? I thought HFS+ 
was all 64 bit, but maybe it's something more subtle than that ?

Paul

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