>2GB Hard Drive in LCIII possible?

[flecom]

I have an LC III that came with a 40MB hard drive, only other SCSI drive I have laying around is a 6GB Seagate drive... I put it in the LC, created a 500MB partition, formatted it HFS Standard and installed 7.6.1 off a CD sucessfully... after a reboot I get a disk with a ?, booting off a floppy and opening disk utility off the CD I can see the partition there, but when I try and mount it it tells me that I can't mount a volume >4GB without a 68040 or PPC... but I only have one 500MB partition? Is there any way to get this to work or am I SOL??

 

[Macdrone]

Need to partition the rest. 3 or 4 partitions of 2gb or less.  It sees the rest larger than 2 gb and goes crazy.

 

[flecom]

ok so I tried this again because I keep reading that yet I am not having any luck, I think these old macs are just messing with me now for being away for so long lol

ok so here is what I did

formatted 7 partitions

500MB

700MB

1000MB

1000MB

1000MB

1000MB

1000MB

I can write to all of them no problem, as soon as I reboot I get a flashing ?, boot off floppy, go into disk utility and try and mount it again it tells me I can't mount a volume >4gb without a 68040... if I go to initialize it it shows all 7 partitions are still there?

what I am doing wrong here??

boot floppy has 7.6.1 using Drive Setup 1.7.3

 

[flecom]

I found an old version of FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and made a 500MB partition, installed os 7.6.1 on it and successfully booted, not sure why drive setup was giving me no love

then made a 4gb partition, copied some files to it, rebooted, and it was there! yay!

 

[CC_333]

Maybe it was the disk driver? The driver installed by Drive Setup (even the old 68k version), I've noticed, tends not to work on anything less than an '040, and proclaims a similar message (using Apple HD SC Setup or any of the other third party utilities seems to work fine, however).

So, with FWB, try formatting it into 1.8 GB chunks and see what happens?

c

 

[flecom]

I think so, I tried updating the driver but using drive setup it seems nothing was working...

with FWB I had no problems making a small boot partition and 4GB storage partitions... so I removed the 6GB drive and I put a 73GB Savvio drive in there so see if it would work, made a 500GB boot partition and a handfull of 4GB partitions for games, disk images, apps etc and everything is working without issue!

the Savvio NEEDS termination though so I have the old 40MB drive in there for now as a terminator after the Savvio but I ordered some 50 pin inline active terminators to see if those will do the trick so I can close this puppy up