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See this thread in the Apple OS 9 discussions:<BR>
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=636618&#636618<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Rich<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:15:49 -0800<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">From: Philip J Robar <philip.robar@gmail.com><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">Subject: Re: [G4] big hard drives-9.1?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:23 PM, bill ritchey wrote:<BR>
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> g4 400 & maybe a dual g4 later- needs to boot into 9 thanks<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">The only way you're going to get 500+ GiB under OS 9.1 booted natively <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">is with an ATA or SATA PCI card that both works with OS 9.1 and has <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">large drive support or to use Firewire (USB would be too slow). The <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">feature you're looking for is known as LBA 48, which is part of the <BR>
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