2. Will 80-to-50-pin "converted" Ultra SCSI drives work properly as boot drives? (I made a new IBM 9GB DeskStar the boot drive on my G-friend's PM6100 under OS 8.1 without incident two years ago, but...)
Absolutely! They work great!
3. What are the MAX PARTITION SIZES for HDs under Mac OS 8.6? If I install a 36Gig drive as boot drive, can I use the whole thing as the boot partition, or will I need to slice 'n dice the drive for efficiency/function?
HFS Plus (aka Sequoia or Mac OS Extended Format), which was released in 1998 as part of Mac OS 8.1, supports a maximum volume size of 2 terabytes.
That does not mean that, IMO, you should use a big drive as a single partition. Putting all your eggs in one basket is just asking for trouble. I think it is better to have something like a 2 GB volume for your bootable system, and put your personal files on the other chunk(s). That way if something spazzes out, chances are it won't destroy what's on the other partitions.
FWIW, - Dan.
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