Re: Maximum HDD sizes?

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From: Carl Witthoft
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 00:00

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In article <bXgP5.7$rP4.2156@news0.optus.net.au>, "DucST4" 
<slider_au@yahoo.com> wrote:

->Is there any limit to the size of a HDD connected to a PowerMac 5500/250?
->And does the interface make the answer any different? (ie: Internal,
->external, SCSI or ATA)
->

I'm not 100% sure about the limitations of a 5500, but here's what I learned the 
hard way about a 7200:
While  modern HardDisk Drivers can read disks of unlimited size,  until I 
upgraded my OS from 7.6.1 to 8.x, I could not boot from a hard drive (or hd 
partition) greater than 2 gig.    Once I booted from a smaller partition I could 
use any size disk or partition.
And internal/external doesn't matter.  So check which OS you are using.
-- 
Carl Witthoft  cgw@world.std.com  carl@aoainc.com  http://world.std.com/~cgw
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