> It actually depends on the IDE card used. Some of them will supporta 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.
If memroy serves correctly, I think the above statement is correct; I've read that if the computer sees the card/drives as ATA controller & drives, then you (may or probably will) have the 8G limit problem. However, if it makes the ATA drives appear to the Mac to be SCSI drives, then the 8G partition problem doesn't exist (e.g., the 8G issue applies ONLY to ATA drives, not to SCSI drives. This much I recall.)
This is correct. Of course, it only applies to 'Old World' Macs, up through and including the beige G3s. Starting with the Blue&White G3s you can use all of an ATA drive as the problem resides in the boot ROMs of the 'Old World' machines.
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