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candyPunk
Full Member
USA
856 Posts |
 Posted - 10 Feb 2002 : 10:15:05
What's the largest HFS/HFS+ partition you can get away with under 7.1? Is there a set # or are we going to hear varying personal experiences? Would a version of 7.5.x let you go larger, as in, did the later system have better scsi drivers? I'd rather not go all the way to 8.0.I ask because I'm in the market for a good size scsi hard drive, and on eBay I see mainly 2 gig, 4 gig, 9.1 gig and 18 gig. 4 seems about right, but 9 would be awesome. Apple shipped 4 gig drives, so I assume you can have a 4 gig partition? 9 seems awfully large. Recently danamania posted his troubles regarding partitions, but it seems that his drive was a little wacky. { candyPunk }
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Edited by - candyPunk on 10 Feb 2002 10:22:36
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Alien
Junior Member
Netherlands
269 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2002 : 11:35:05
HFS+ is out of the question, since that requires Mac OS 8.1.The maximum partition size is 2 GB for System 6 and 7; 4 GB for System 7.5, and 2 TB for System 7.5.2 and higher. The maximum number of volumes is 173, so basically, any Mac can handle any hard drive ever made. For more details: Apple Knowledgebase article #8647:
Macintosh: File System Specifications and Terms. ,xtG
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AnubisTTP
Junior Member
USA
308 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2002 : 11:57:19
I could not get an HFS volume to go over two gigabytes under 8.1 when I tried it. HFS+ worked just fine though. I also heard somewhere that the max partition size under HFS+ was 100 gigabytes but I don't know how accurate that was.AnubisTTP
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2002 : 23:24:57
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...danamania posted his troubles ...
For a Captain of Observation you sure aren't very observant!  ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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AnubisTTP
Junior Member
USA
308 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2002 : 16:53:29
Did you forget to turn off automatic updates in the Software Update control panel?AnubisTTP
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2002 : 17:22:39
Wowzers! I think I'm about due for one of those myself...666th poster to the
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2002 : 17:31:37
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Wowzers! I think I'm about due for one of those myself...
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candyPunk
Full Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 13 Feb 2002 : 16:54:42
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oik. did I get a (soft/firm/hard)ware upgrade that I didn't notice? eeeeeek!
Sorry!!! btw, ~Coxy, that's the whole joke - firewire made some crack about how astute i was being and i thought it made a good rank { candyPunk }
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 13 Feb 2002 : 23:23:27
Yeah, I think I remember that one, actually!~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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