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| general modern-scsi inquiry.. | |
| Posted by: chelseayr on 2022-01-06 13:24:02 for buying a savvio drive (either ST936701LC or ST973401LC as they seem to share same seagate manual) I presume that there is not too much problem in just simply installing and booting to a single large partition on pretty much any powerpc/pci systems as long as you had the right type of terminator to go with it? I may try a macintosh adaptec card at some point but for now going to presume that I'll run it off the onboard scsi-1 bus initially nevertheless so far from what I can tell it seem that these two drives have been mentioned a few times in the past with seeming good marks for them ... plus a thanks to bunsen for confirming supportable partition sizes as per; Volume size limits under HFS and HFS+With thanks to defor for compiling this information over here. /B ===== These are the limits for HFS support on Macintosh System/MacOS: (I had to dig a bit to find this) Maximum HFS partition sizes by OS version: Macintosh System 1.x - 7.1.x : 2GB1 Macintosh System 7.5.x : 4GB1 Macintosh...
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and mm I know many people might already know of it but for anyone new to it as well heres a nice link to the official manual nevertheless; | |
| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2022-01-07 17:57:03 These should work fine in Macs if you've got the right adapter. The biggest thing to be aware of is that this kind of drive uses more power and generates more heat than the stock drives. That won't be a problem in, say, an 8600 or 9600 (especially if you use the lower tray), but it could be a problem in something smaller with less cooling, like a 6100. In my experience, SCSI2SD V6es do work well in PCI PowerMacs, I have one in an 8600/300 and it's Basically Fine - it outperforms the stock hard disk and can almost max the bus it's on. Though, these kinds of UltraSCSI/SCA disks are typically a bit cheaper and the adapters are still easy to find, and they're also a great option for pre-PCI Macs. Another great option for PCI PowerMacs is SATA cards, you can run up to 2TB hard disks and SSDs. (I haven't tried >2TB disks on 7/8/9, so I don't know if you can do 2TB per disk or if you can do multiple 2TB volumes on a single larger disk, I also don't know if the commonly supported PCI PowerMac SATA card can even address disks over 2TB.) | |
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