for buying a savvio drive (either ST936701LC or ST973401LC as they seem to share same seagate manual) I presume that there is not too much problem in just simply installing and booting to a single large partition on pretty much any powerpc/pci systems as long as you had the right type of terminator to go with it? I may try a macintosh adaptec card at some point but for now going to presume that I'll run it off the onboard scsi-1 bus initially nevertheless
so far from what I can tell it seem that these two drives have been mentioned a few times in the past with seeming good marks for them ... plus a thanks to bunsen for confirming supportable partition sizes as per;
and mm I know many people might already know of it but for anyone new to it as well heres a nice link to the official manual nevertheless;
so far from what I can tell it seem that these two drives have been mentioned a few times in the past with seeming good marks for them ... plus a thanks to bunsen for confirming supportable partition sizes as per;
Volume size limits under HFS and HFS+
With thanks to defor for compiling this information over here. /B ===== These are the limits for HFS support on Macintosh System/MacOS: (I had to dig a bit to find this) Maximum HFS partition sizes by OS version: Macintosh System 1.x - 7.1.x : 2GB1 Macintosh System 7.5.x : 4GB1 Macintosh...
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and mm I know many people might already know of it but for anyone new to it as well heres a nice link to the official manual nevertheless;