On Feb 4, 2004, at 10:49 pm, Tim wrote:
On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Gerald Wilson wrote:
Has anyone experienced a first-8GB partition limit problem with a SCSI drive connected to the internal SCSI bus of a PowerSurge machine? I mean really,
No. Doesn't happen.
This problem was absolutely and specfically limited to early ATA and ATA33 controllers used on G3 Powerbooks up to 1998, the 1998 iMacs, and the G3 Beige. From the B&W G3, iBook and Pismo onwards it's not an issue. Also of course this means that SCSI devices are supposed to be unaffected too.
Unfortunately as I just found in 10.3's installer, you can't install on a partition larger than 8.0GB (it doesn't have to be in the first 8GB, just 8GB or less). I think this is because the installer sees the machine it is installing to as the oldest it supports, which of course is one that has the 8GB ATA problem, and thus it assumes the problem exists without checking for SCSI availability. Since it doesn't support the beige G3 it probably assumes it;s an iMac 233 and thus that it is not capable of having SCSI installed.
Only a theory...
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