On Friday, December 31, 2004, at 05:03 PM, Eagle wrote:
On Dec 31, 2004, at 16:48, Marc wrote:I do find os x fast enough on my beige 266 to do internet and such....
And you do NOT need several partitions for os x, only when you still want to switch to os 9 ...
On New World hardware you don't need multiple partitions, of course, but I was under the impression that the Old World Beige G3 had a partition size limit of 8GB for the OS X boot partition. Am I misled in that?
If you're using the ATA drive on the onboard controller, yes, you're subject to the 8GB partition limit.
SCSI drives or ATA drives connected to third party controllers that ID themselves as SCSI interfaces are not subject to the 8GB limit. AFAIK, only Sonnet's ATA interfaces ID themselves as ATA not SCSI buses. (I know that my Trio did when I had it set up under OS X 10.2, but then I switched from my 7600 to the Beige and the Trio didn't work with it, so I sold it.)
I have a SIIG ATA133 controller in my Beige and a 120GB drive, unpartitioned, as my boot drive. No problems.
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