By the PowerSurge machines I meant the 7500/8500 and 9500 and their derivatives. The 7500 and 8500 share a common mobo design (TNT, aka Nitro). The 9500 has its own design (Tsunami). The 7300, 7600 and 8600 are all variants of TNT. The 9600 is a variant of Tsunami. Clone owners will know which of these boards was the basis of each clone system.
All these PowerSurge machines have two SCSI buses. One ("internal") is SCSI-2, rated at 10 MB/s, and is intended as the bus for all internal drives. The other ("internal/external") is SCSI-1, rated at 5 MB/s, and has both an internal connector and an external connector on the back of the case.
The beige G3s use a different board called "Gossamer". They have only the slow "internal/external" SCSI connector. The faster "internal" connector has been replaced by IDE.
So my original question was quite explicit: do PowerSurge machines (as defined above) have a low 8 GB limit on their "internal" bus (as defined above)? From people's responses, it's clear that the answer is NO. That's helpful to know. It's equally clear that people have found many other gotchas around partition size for both SCSI and IDE drives attached to various other mobos by various different means.
That's also helpful to know; though how to collate the data I'm not sure yet.
Still: armed with this info I should soon have a triple-booting system for investigation (OS9, OSX, and Yellow Dog). Then the fun really starts.
GWW
On 5 Feb 2004, at 22:21, J.M.P.Hissel wrote:
On 05-02-2004 22:28, Tim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
Yes, but we're talking about native SCSI vs controller cards/ATA......
Well, talking about native SCSI. Beige G3/266, put in a SCSI IBM-HD DCHS 9GB
connected to the intern native SCSI. Jaguar refused to install. I made 2
partitions: 7 and 2GB: Jaguar refused to install. Installing of Jaguar.2.8
on an IDE 20GB (part.: 15GB for 10.2.8 and 5GB for 9.2.2), connected to
IDE-bus 1: No problem!
Then put that IBM in a 9500/G3/300/300/1MB. Using XPF, installing of 10.2.8
gives no problem, even without any partioning.
Does any of you understand this? LOL: As we say in Amsterdam NL, and I'll
try to translate: "Just pour me in a little basket!".
?????
Jo
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