I beg to differ. I had a 9600 with a PCI IDE card and a 20GB drive attached. (And a Radeon 7000 and a g4 800 upgrade). I had OS 9 installed on the built in ~2GB drive and used that to launch the (unsupported) OS X install. The installer formatted all 20GB (or thereabouts) and ran the install with no problems. I too though that I would only be able to use 8GB of the disk. I copied ~10GB of stuff to the drive after the install and was convinced. I believe the limitation is that the kernel ( I could be off base here) has to be located within the first 8GB of space on the disk but the partition can extend much farther. i.e. I don't think you could have a 10GB partition on the disk with OS 9 and a 10GB partition with OS X also. However, I would guess that a 5GB OS 9 partition and a 15GB OS X partition would coexist nicely (I'm just guessing here, it might be that the limitation is much smaller than 8GB but it's hard to remember all this stuff as I sold the 9600 about 3 months ago).
Chris <<< I have OS X installed on a IDE drive connected to a Sonnet PCI-IDE card. OS X will not install on a partition that has any part beyond 8 GB, I know for sure because I had to re-partition my HD for the installer to allow me to select a partition the first time I installed it.
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