[Ti] Upgraded Hard Drive in Big Al - problems

[Photios Dumont]

At 4:12 AM 2003.06.01 Steve Wozniak wrote:

> Yes, I also remember getting an invalid disk size. But it didn't happen this
> way every time.  It is odd that these problems are so obvious but I get told
> by Apple that 80 GB drives work fine.
> 
> Here's how I made it to 80 GB internally. I lucked out because this was my
> first attempt. I installed a new 80 GB drive in my Big Al and booted on the
> Big Al System Software DVD to [format] it. I then booted on my original 60 GB
> drive in an external firewire enclosure. I ran CCC from this external drive
> and copied it to the new one.
> 
> WARNING: Don't try copies or Finder actions with both drives named the same,
> with OS X. This applies to USB drives and camera media cards as well as
> firewire drives and your internal drive. I have been hosed a few times making
> this 'mistake'.

This 80 gb hard drive situation is really something! Thanks, however to your
experience, Steve, my problem is now solved. When I made my first attempt at
trying to clone my original drive, it failed, and now I know the reason -
it's because  I had both drives (the original and the clone drive (80gb))
named the same. So, I opted to load the 80 gb back into big al, booted up
with my original 60gb in the external, loaded disk utility to format the
80gb drive, and then cloned the 60 to the 80. Everything worked flawlessly.
I'm now running big al with an internal 80. Thanks Steve!!!

Photios