superpantoufle
Well-known member
Hi all,
In the early nineties, when the 80 MB hard disk of the family's LC III became a little bit short for my growing needs, I bought my first piece own piece of hardware: a huge (at least for me at the time) 365 MB external SCSI hard disk. That disk served me extremely well for 16 years, and still works like a charm. Up until last week, it was filled with various working System folders from 5.x to 7.x that I used to boot and perform clean installs on "new" liberated machines. Then I found that 6 GB SCSI disk lying in one of my boxes of stuff... and I decided to enjoy more storage with my "boot 'em all" HD!
I remembered about the 2 GB volume size limit with System 6.x and 7.x, so I partitioned the 6 GB drive into four 1.5 GB volumes. I did the backup and the partitioning on my PowerBook 1400c running 8.6 without an issue. But the drive doesn't mount on my PowerBook 145 running 7.1. It's seen by SCSIProbe, but when I try to manually mount it, it throws an alert dialog saying that "a 68040 or PPC is needed in order to mount volumes larger than 4 GB". :-/
What I don't understand is:
a) There is no volume larger than 4 GB on that drive. Only four 1.5 GB volumes (formatted in standard HFS, by the way).
B) I was aware of a 2 GB volume size limit with System 7.1, but I never heard of a CPU-related volume size limit.
Well, obviously the alert is thrown by SCSIProbe and not by the Finder, because my System is SF-7.1 (swiss french), and the dialog is in english. And a 7.1 install isn't supposed to speak about PowerPC...
Does anybody have a clue about why I can't get that disk to mount, formatted and partitioned the way it is? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really don't feel like switching back to my 365 MB disk. I hadn't time to test it with other 7.x machines tonight, but I will tomorrow. Thanks in advance, and sorry for my rough english (with a slow swiss french accent!)
In the early nineties, when the 80 MB hard disk of the family's LC III became a little bit short for my growing needs, I bought my first piece own piece of hardware: a huge (at least for me at the time) 365 MB external SCSI hard disk. That disk served me extremely well for 16 years, and still works like a charm. Up until last week, it was filled with various working System folders from 5.x to 7.x that I used to boot and perform clean installs on "new" liberated machines. Then I found that 6 GB SCSI disk lying in one of my boxes of stuff... and I decided to enjoy more storage with my "boot 'em all" HD!
I remembered about the 2 GB volume size limit with System 6.x and 7.x, so I partitioned the 6 GB drive into four 1.5 GB volumes. I did the backup and the partitioning on my PowerBook 1400c running 8.6 without an issue. But the drive doesn't mount on my PowerBook 145 running 7.1. It's seen by SCSIProbe, but when I try to manually mount it, it throws an alert dialog saying that "a 68040 or PPC is needed in order to mount volumes larger than 4 GB". :-/
What I don't understand is:
a) There is no volume larger than 4 GB on that drive. Only four 1.5 GB volumes (formatted in standard HFS, by the way).
B) I was aware of a 2 GB volume size limit with System 7.1, but I never heard of a CPU-related volume size limit.
Well, obviously the alert is thrown by SCSIProbe and not by the Finder, because my System is SF-7.1 (swiss french), and the dialog is in english. And a 7.1 install isn't supposed to speak about PowerPC...
Does anybody have a clue about why I can't get that disk to mount, formatted and partitioned the way it is? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really don't feel like switching back to my 365 MB disk. I hadn't time to test it with other 7.x machines tonight, but I will tomorrow. Thanks in advance, and sorry for my rough english (with a slow swiss french accent!)