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A workaround for the 8gb partition limit on Beige G3s
Authored by: Marcot1 on Apr 06, '04 08:58:06PM

OS9 suffer from the same issue as OSX. OSX installer is just smart enough to tell/forbid you from installing outside the first 8GB. Essentially OS9 is doing the something as this hint. If by any means OS9 ends up outside the first 8GB it will fail as OSX would.



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A workaround for the 8gb partition limit on Beige G3s
Authored by: BMarsh on Apr 06, '04 11:12:23PM

I can verify this other users comment. While OS 9 will install on a drive larger then 8 GB in a beige G3, if the OS ends up outside of that 8 GB, it will and does fail to load.

Apple put this limitation into the Mac OS X installer partically because drives got this big around this time (it also effects the first generation tray-loading iMac's with speeds from 233 to 333 Mhz)

It is a limitation of the IDE controller, not anything to do with software
(get a bootable ATA card, and you will get around this limit)



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