<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="3">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.<BR>
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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!<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
Rich<BR>
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> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:59:10 -0800<BR>
> From: Philip J Robar <philip.robar@gmail.com><BR>
> Subject: Re: [G4] big hard drives-9.1?<BR>
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> On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Send2Rich@aol.com wrote:<BR>
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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 <BR>
> OS 9 from any partition larger than about 190GB, which is probably...<BR>
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> Unfortunately, the thread you reference above doesn't provide any <BR>
> references to support the claim that OS 9 can't access volumes larger <BR>
> than 190 GB<BR>
> <BR>
> This claim directly conflicts with Apple's documentation which states <BR>
> that OS 9 can access up to 2 TiB:<BR>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24601. I did a Google <BR>
> search and found one reference to this 190 GB limit in response to a <BR>
> person who was having a problem booting OS 9 on a 250 GB drive, but is <BR>
> was only repeating the information in the Apple Forum thread.<BR>
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