8gb limit again -- 10.2 complains on install |
October, 11, 2002 1:08 AM |
chad |
Hi I have a 9600(/200) with XLR8 G3/450 at 500, ATI XLAIM3D, Sonnet ATA100 card with Maxtor 40 gig 7200, a Toshiba SCSI 32x CDROM, a Creative Labs DVD-ROM on the Sonnet Card, and a Sony 24/10/40 CD-RW on the Sonnet card. I also have a CompUSA cobo card (USB works, firewire is recognized with ID 0 and doesn't), as well as another firewire only card my brother had laying around from his PC, which seems to work fine in 10.1.5. I successfully installed 10.0.x/10.1.x on the 40 gig drive without having to make small partitions. I may have had the drive on my earlier Sonnet ATA66 card, but I think the last install I did was on the ATA100 card. But I honestly don't remember. Tonight I decided to update to 10.2. I finally got the 10.2 CD to boot using 2.2.1 of XPF, as the latest 2.2.3 seems to be missing something. (See other thread). Anyway, 10.2 won't allow me to install on the 40 gig disk, as it is not within 8gb. I thought that that was an issue only with certain Beige G3 IDE controllers. I have successfully installed earlier 10.x on this or other large drives without problem. Any ideas? I am going to reinstall the ATA66 card and stick the HD on that as my first attempt to fixing this, tomorrow. Any other ideas? Thanks Chad |
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RE: 8gb limit again -- 10.2 complains on install |
October, 16, 2002 6:17 AM |
OSXGuru |
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I believe that it is a bug in the logic of the Mac OS X Installer. That is, the Installer thinks that the problem applies to all ATA devices on Old World machines, when in fact it is somewhat more limited than that. |
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RE: 8gb limit again -- 10.2 complains on install |
October, 11, 2002 10:59 AM |
chad |
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Yeah, that is what I figured. Thanks. The question is. why does it matter? I thought it was only certain Bege G3 IDE controllers that had the problem? New Macs with IDE don't have the problem, so it is not all IDE. Anyway, I'll report back on success. Thanks Chad |
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RE: 8gb limit again -- 10.2 complains on install |
October, 11, 2002 1:58 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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Yeah go back to the 66 card. The ATA66 card poses as SCSI, which circumvents the 8 gig limit, the ATA100 card appears as IDE, and therefore gets the 8 gig limit. |
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