Now to recheck the original question:
"Has anyone experienced a first-8GB partition limit problem with a SCSI drive connected to the internal SCSI bus of a PowerSurge machine?"
AFAICT the answer is no. BTW that would mean a 50-pin drive directly cabled to the internal bus, or a 68-pin drive connected via some gizmo - if it can be persuaded to work. From people's answers, it looks as if the internal SCSI bus does not suffer from this particular limitation. (Okay - we know it can be as temperamental as sin about termination, bus-timing and other such stuff, but that's another story.)
So, if you know different, please say so.
rgds
Gerald WW
On 5 Feb 2004, at 08:11, Mark Benson wrote:
On Feb 5, 2004, at 12:45 am, Dan Stewart wrote:
I have 10.3.2 installed on an 11 gig partition of a SCSI drive. No problems at all.
In fact, I have 2 installs. I have a 33 gig SCSI drive split into 3, 11 gig partitions. I have 10.3.2 on 2 partitions. So, not only is there no 8 gig limit, there is no "first 8 gig of the drive" limit either.
U want to fly over here and look huh? I'm telling you it happened on my 9600. If you don't wanna believe that it does occur in some circumstances then you'd be ignoring me and a number of other people here... Ryan Rempel has, I think, acknowledged that the problem exists and may be able to do something about it.
This is on my S900. It has a couple of other SCSI drives - an 18 gig single partition with 10.2.8 installed, and a 9 gig with 9.2.2 installed.
I don't know what's causing your problem, but it is not the 10.3 installer.
As I theorized, it might be pot luck that the 9600 is closer to one of the Macs that does suffer the 8GB Bug. I dunno. Whatever it is it doesn't affect your S900 obviously :-)
What it could be is my ACARD SCSI card. I know some of them masquerade as ATA devices on the bus in order to achieve greater compatibility. Maybe OS X's installer falsely identifies these?
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