On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 04:53 PM, Ronald Romine wrote:
Hi, I have recently joined the G-List. I have a beige G3 DT with an OWC 467MHz G4, and a Sonnet Tango 2.0 USB/400FW PCI card. Via XPostFacto 3, I am currently booting 10.2.8 from several 30 GB partitions on two 120 GB Mercury Elite FW drives (also from OWC). Works like a charm (thankyouverymuch, Ryan Rempel--for XPF3).
If you decide to upgrade to OS X, the built-in ATA interfaces have a quirk which prevents
booting OS X from HDs larger than 8-Megs. You can still boot from an 8-meg partition but
only if its within the first 8-megs of drive space. (I believe PCI HD cards don't have
this limit, but not all cards/revisions can be used with OS X.)
I have seen several references (as above, and elsewhere) to the beige G3s being limited by the 8GB 1st position partition for booting into OS X, and thankfully, this is NOT the case. Not with external FW, anyway. Cheers.
Regards,
Wayne Clodfelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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