SCSI hard drive over 2 GB

[habibrobert]

Hello everyone.

When dealing with an SCSI hard drive that has a total capacity of over 2 GB, will the Macintosh even detect the hard drive? I am curious how you can partition the drive into smaller chunks so you can install an OS on it. Bare with me, because I am going to give you a windows analogy (sorry for this!). So when installing windows on a pc, you have the option to partition the drive before you install the software. Is there a similar concept for Macs? or do I need to partition the drive on a healthy Mac and then insert it into the mac in which I want to install the OS on?

Also, how "modern" of an SCSI drive can you use with a mac? I know you can use the 80 pin drives, but how new of an 80 pin SCSI will work? I have heard stories of the driver in the hard drive not wanting to work with the macintosh OS, does that occur often?

To recap:

Can a hard drive that is over 2 gb in capacity be detected by a macintosh OS installation disk?

How and through what program can you partition an SCSI Hard Drive.

Finally, how new of an 80 pin SCSI drive can you use on a Mac (lets say it is going to be for a macintosh classic or an LC).

Thanks very much guys.

 

[Mk.558]

1) Yes, depending on whether it is supported by the Mac. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27115 Not sure if it's using the GB (1000) or GiB (1024) interpretation.

2) 7.5.3 Patched HD SC Setup and various other tools depending on the hard drive.

3) Not sure personally, but this has been an ongoing point of discussion for some time now.

 

[uniserver]

I sent him the 7.5.3 netboot image with

7.5.3 Patched HD SC Setup

on there.
Now his issues is when he installs the LC575 Main Board into his color classic, and trys to boot from this image i sent him, he gets a bus error.

my fingers are too tired to explain to him why.

 

[Mk.558]

As explained here, I'd install 8.1 and see what happens. But before I did that I would fix the video thing on the motherboard. Better is to put the old CC mobo back in and put 8.1 on it first, using a Universal install for any Mac.

I'm not sure if a SCSI CD drive is available or not.

The Mystic upgrade is not a rare upgrade by itself, so I'm sure others can relate their experiences.