Actually, it depends on the card. The way I understand it is that if the card "translates" the drive so that the computer sees it as a SCSI drive, then the limit does not apply. However, if it still reads as an IDE drive, then yes the limit still applies. Apparently your computer still sees the drive thru that card as an IDE. Sorry....
JR
MikeRF/A2 wrote:Boy I'm disappointed. Reconfigured two computers and stole the ATA Ultratek66 from my 8500 and put it in my Beige G3 266. Blew away OS 9.1 from a fairly new partitioned60 GB Maxtor and made two large partitions with my Jag install CD thinking I'll finally have OS X on a drive with "room to roam" and expand. Everything I have heard previously indicated using the ATA controller was a workaround for the 8 GB limit. My installer said No Can Do, "Destination is not within the first 8 GB on the hard disk."
(answering the top post)
My system shows the ATA UltraTek as a SCSI device so don't know how/why it would look past this and treat the drive as an ATA ...er, ... uh, ... other than the fact that it IS one ; - ]
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