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A workaround for the 8gb partition limit on Beige G3s
Authored by: dave_williams on Apr 06, '04 11:58:12AM

A general solution to the 8Gb limit for unsupported desktop machines is to put an ATA drive controller card into a PCI slot, and install OS X on an ATA drive. This completely bypasses the 8Gb limit. Works fine on a 7600 (plus Sonnet 400Mhz G3), which runs with two unpartitioned 120Gb ATA drives and no SCSI drive. It isn't running 10.3, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't if Ryan has done his usual magic with XPostFacto.

Cards cost from less than $100. Look at OWC's site at <http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Page.cfm?Parent=96&Title=SCSI%20%26%20IDE%20Controllers&Template=>

Also opens up the possibility of hardware RAID to speed things up...


Dave Williams



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