> Is that normal for this kind of configuration? I had been expectingthat this limitation was only for ATA drives directly attached to the internal bus on things like beige G3s, but you guys might know different.
The actual limit isn't in the IDE controller, it's in the ROM's IDE drivers... they can't address larger IDE disks than that, so you can't boot from larger partitions.
I generally peel off a chunk for a boot partition anyway, so that if everything goes pear-shaped and I need to rebuild the system partition I don't have to back up and restore the whole disk.
As an a side the sonnet ATA controllers are generally seen as a SCSI controller under OS 9. This may also be where some of these conflicts are occurring during the install process.
and
as for some other reasons we use IDE - well it's cost!! - compare size for size and SCSI is always dearer. The other issue is that IDE has gotten pretty quick these days and nearly gets to the throughput of SCSI. However serial ATA does get there - but one controller per device so no chance of conflict like SCSI or IDE but less scope for expansion without adding additional hardware.
IMHO
Simon
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