Largest Hard Drive Capasity On 9600?

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ohmelas

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Does anyone know where I can find this information out. Is there a chart on the web that shows what hard drives these older Macs will show? I have SCSI on my 9600 and this 4GB drive is definately not going to work.
 
You will need to partition the drive for it to work. Try two drive 2 GB each. Or three partitions. Make sure you use HFS + (extended) when formatting the drive.

What OS are you going to use?
 
Are you saying that Drive Setup will not allow formatting one volume on your 4 GB SCSI drive?? Are you running at least OS 8 (OS 9 has better support with larger volumes)?

I don't think there is a listed maximum size for a SCSI drive (what about big RAID volumes?)
IDE drives, on the other hand, have firmware size limitations.
A 2 GB volume size doesn't make too much sense except as a personal choice, as this is the maximum file size, and only under OS 8. If you have OS 9, and you have a volume formatted as a HFS+ volume, the maximum volume size is 2 TeraBytes, which is also maximum file size, according to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24601
Your system shipped with at least a 4 GB SCSI drive (I don't think any Apple has normally shipped with multi-partitioned drives to average customers.)
 
I know about the Mac history site. Thanks.

I also know that I have a 4GB SCSI hard drive in there running my system OS 9.1 software. Additionally, I have a PCI SCSI Jackhammer Card running a RAID 0 Striped array over quantity 4, 4GB Hard Drives in a SCSI array. I'm confident in that aspect of SCSI.

My question is more pointed.

Was there a drive compaitibility list for these Macs or is there a quantity sized drive that I can not use with 9.1 on a PM9600/350?

I have a Roland CD-Rack for music and it has a SCSI CD-RW with Macintosh 9.x drivers in it. It also has an additional bay for a hard drive and my 4GB won't hold SQUAT for a libaray or back up stuff. I want an slower Baracuda 80GB bottomless pit for storage.

Will it work or will I have to spend $200 to find out? Are you with me? Thanks for your help and knowledge.
 
ohmelas said:
Was there a drive compaitibility list for these Macs or is there a quantity sized drive that I can not use with 9.1 on a PM9600/350?


Will it work or will I have to spend $200 to find out? Are you with me? Thanks for your help and knowledge.
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There's no information anywhere that I have found that lists an absolute maximum size for SCSI drives. OS 9 SUPPORTS up to 2 TB volume size. I can't come up with any reason for a larger SCSI drive to NOT work. Go for it!

If you are using a SCSI adapter, instead of the internal SCSI bus, maybe there's some info at the SCSI adapter's support site about this. The only limitation I have ever seen for SCSI was purely cost (big drives used to be really expensive) and the older OS, before OS 8 had more file system constraints, but OS 9 doesn't really have any reasonable limits (you'd have to spend a bunch of money to approach any limits on this old system)

You might run into 2 issues: a newer SCSI drive that is not supported by Drive Setup (but then should be OK if you have current 3rd party formatters) or a drive connector issue (connecting a SCSI U320 drive to your internal bus, for example) You should not get a drive that cannot connect to Ultra SCSI 2 (68-pin connector) (the adapters sometimes are very hard to find)
 
If you are just using it for storage of your files - all you need to do is use Drive Set to format the drive. You don't need to install the OS on it if you don't need to and it should work with out partitioning it.
 
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