Aha! Sounds good. For PC's with IDE33 from around the same time, one of the "magical limits" was 8 Gb - but that might be BIOS-related and PC-specific and have nothing to do with G3's. There is also something about a 120 Gb limit, I belive - something BIOS- and IDE100-related.
I will keep the boot-strapping below the first couple of Gb's, then! By the way - are there any reasons/advantages in trying to update my Open Firmware 3.1.0 - disk-related or not - or should I just leave it as is? Regards, Morten Sabroe Mortensen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: 13. november 2003 13:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Q: Updating disk of 1998 G3 from 6 Gb to... 120Gb? On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: > > Hi all, > > Got a "Blue&White" G3 with a 6 Gb hard disk. Just got it to run Mandrake PPC 9.1. > > I would like to upgrade the harddisk, because I need more space. > Would it be possible to replace the existing 6 Gb with a never IDE disk of a size of > e.g. 120 Gb? -And run Mandrake on it? > Does anyone know what restrictions apply for the size of the harddisk?? > > Does a FAQ on the subject exist? > > If the information is worth anything, then - as far as I can tell - the machine is > from around 1998, it uses IDE33 and has an OpenFirmware number of 3.1.0 dated > 1998-something. > Don't know if it applies to the B&W G3's, but the early iMac, like my RevB, need to find yaboot and the kernel in the first 6GB (I think, may be 8GB). It's an Open Firmware bug. What I do is keep the bootstrap below this limit and use a shared /boot for all the various installs I have on the drive. -- Stew Benedict
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