[Ham-Mac] OS Systems

[John E Bastin, K8AJS]

At 14:37 +0200 08/15/2002, <0159@gmx.at> wrote:
>I experienced a related problem as i wanted to replace my original 
>6GB HD from my G3 b&w desktop with a larger HD.

I took the 6GB hard drive out of my B&W G3 and replaced it with a 
40GB drive. No problem.

>  I got told that there are a lot of Midage Macs witch only accepts a 
>boot-partition (the first one) from less than 2,0 GB.

That's not a limitation of the computer. That is controlled by the 
operating system. If you have a B&W G3, it cannot run using an 
operating system old enough to have the 2GB partition problem.

>  So i would try to use the first partition as the boot partition and 
>would give that partition as less as possible space ... maybe only 1 
>GB or so.

You're causing problems instead of solving them. Unless you want to 
run multiple systems there is no reason to partition a small hard 
drive (less than 40GB) on modern systems.

>If it works you could retry with 1,98GB or so . Maybe that will 
>solve your problem . btw: in my case (G3 350 B&W Rev A from spring 
>1999) it was a corrupted IDE Controller, for witch this Modell was 
>famous :-((,

????? Famous where? I work in the service department of an Apple 
dealer and we certainly have not had excessive occurrences of a 
problem like this. (Actually, I cannot remember _any_ failures of the 
IDE controller.)

>  I solved it with an raid controller PCI-card (what of course cannot 
>be done @ your Laptop)
>

I'm sorry you had a problem with your system board, but I hope that I 
have helped clear up incorrect information (opinions).

73,
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