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Mac storage hardware >> Using 200 Gig Hard Drive on Mac/OS 9

by Freya128 » Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:34:05 GMT

> Mac/OS 9 only recognizes hard drives up to 137 gig. I have a
> 200 gig hard drive, but MAC/OS 9 only recognizes the first
> 137 gig of the drive. I have a tower Mac G4 from the year
> 2000.

I'm from a PC background and have only just got my first little mac
but on P.C's this kind of limitation is usually down to the bios on
the motherboard. If it is the same kind of thing in the mac then I
have found that with linux, once it has started booting, it is able
to bypass the bios and see the whole hard disk.

So what you could do is is format the extra space to a linux format
and use the extra space for linux. You might find that you need to
boot the linux kernal from another drive however, or OTOH you might
be able to boot the linux kernal from the part of the hard disk that
the mac can see?

(the kernal needs to load before it can see the drives for itself)

I'm not sure if this will work, but I thought it was maybe worth
mentioning.
Obviously the mac is different to the PC, at least at the moment, but
hey you already knew that! ;)

love

Freya

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Mac storage hardware >> Using 200 Gig Hard Drive on Mac/OS 9

by Freya128 » Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:00:24 GMT


> Mac/OS 9 only recognizes hard drives up to 137 gig. I have a

I found this link which is all about this stuff and may even have
some solutions! :)

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/action.lasso?-database=faq.fp3&-layout=FaqList&-response=answer.faq.lasso&-recordID=34188&-search

love

Freya

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