At 8:53 PM -0500 11/19/05, Peter Flynn wrote:
On 19-Nov-05, at 8:42 PM, David Klaus wrote:
Hey everyone,
Now that I've gotten my 9600/200 connected to my network and the
internet, I've downloaded XPostFacto in hopes of installing Jaguar on
this machine. I'd like to ditch the stock 4gb SCSI drive in favor of an
8gb ATA drive I have laying around, so I'm wondering if anyone has any
knowledge of compatibility issues or has had success with ATA cards and
XPostFacto. I searched the XPostFacto site and found nothing thus far.
Basically as long as the ATA card is recognized in OS 9, it will
work with XPF/OSX. The only issue is that the OS X partition
will have to be the 1st one and at most 8GB in size. A good list
for these type of questions is the Unsupported OS X list
<http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html>.
I ran OS X 10.3.9 on my 9600/350 G3-500 on a paritioned 70 GB
drive, with 3 equal paritions, and had no problems- used the
original 4 GB drive as a back-up OS X boot drive.
As far as I've always heard the 8Gb limitation applies ONLY to the
built in IDE controller on the machines in question.
Actually, it was a problem with Apple's installer applying the same
limit to all IDE drives in OldWorld machines regardless of how they
were connected (built-in or PCI card). With XPF 4, Ryan has worked
around the problem for those drives attached using PCI IDE cards.
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