My question is if this limit is due to something on the motherboard or something on the bus.
It is a problem with Mac OS X's support of ATA/IDE disks.
Here are some of the work-around details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
I posted the original question that started this thread. It has gone in a variety of directions and it wasn't until the post above that I got clearly the info I was looking for.
What is implied by the answer above and is explicit in the Apple doc is that if I run a 23 gig external SCSI drive off a PCI SCSI card, the 8 gig limit will not apply (plus I will by pass the slower IDE bus on my Mac G3 Server).
If I am wrong, someone please correct me.
Brian -- Brian Braunschweiger
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