on 11/4/03 10:19 PM, Jacob Bradford at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I seem to remember hearing that the 8GB limit depends on the ATA > controller >> card, not on the computer itself. Some ATA PCI cards are affected, and > some >> are not. Hopefully someone here can correct me if I'm wrong, or back me > up >> (with a list of cards or chipsets or whatever would be great) if I'm > right. > > Doesn't this question keep popping up all the time? > I'm pretty sure the 8GB limit only applies to a certain model of the Beige > G3s (rev 1 I think) as it had some sort of problem with its IDE channel.
It seems to apply to all the tray loading iMacs as well, at least Low End Mac has this to say on the info page for each of those models: "If you have a hard drive over 8 GB in size, you must partition it, and the partition containing OS�X must be completely within the first 8�GB of space or you will not be able to run OS�X. (If you are creating the partition within OS�X, it must be 7.45 GB or smaller as reported by Disk Utility, because sometimes a GB is billion bytes and sometimes it's 1,073,741,824 bytes.)" -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
