On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 12:10 PM, David Klaus wrote:
It actually depends on the IDE card used. Some of them will support a booting OS X partition above 8 GB and some wont. The determining factor is how OS X sees the card. If it sees it as an IDE PCI card, then you will be limited to the first 8GB if it sees it as a SCSI card then you will be able to use the entire disk as an OS X boot > partition.
David is correct. Moreover, it depends on the version of OSX used; Some card drivers were rewritten for 10.2, and previously 'recognized as SCSI' cards were properly identified as IDE, and became subject to the limitation.
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