Hi Sebastian,
> thanks for the report you've written after you have had so many troubles > with your PowerMac G4. No problem, I am interrested in a well working Debian ;) > It is interesting that > connecting HDDs with a higher capacity and restricting their disk space > usable to a maximum of 128GB seems only to work if operating systems > like Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X are used (and no longer as soon as Debian > GNU/Linux gets involved). It is! And in special the fact that it even doesn´t work if someone is partitioning the entire (restricted to 128 GB) space with MacOS, and let Debian just change the filesystems at the existing partitions, as I reported above, ... > > -) trying to fix the problem when using bigger disks at the original > built > > in controllers (but beware, as recent Terrabyte disks are no problems > > throught PCI cards, and seem to be used often at G4s) > > I'm not sure if I understand correctly what you're stating here. I just wanted to point at the fact, that MacOS 9 (and 8) limits are at 42 terrabyte, and the 128 GB is just a limit of the onboard controller of the early G4s. So a solution that will scan for the controller in use (!) would be needed, as the problem doesn´t occure at the same machine, with several addon cards for SATA, LVD-SCSI, or ATA100/133. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21924?viewlocale=en_US Also the general HFS+ limits, 8 exbibyte (EiB), seem to be valid, even if MacOS "just" can use the 42 terrabyte. regards Mathias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
