Glad to know there remains a robust community of Classic users.
I should probably know the answer to this one by now, but don't.
I have a 933Mhz Quicksilver 2002 and run Tiger, Leopard and Classic.
Specifically, I have 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 running on the original internal,
and I put 9, 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 on the external. Because I didn't know
better at the time, I made the partition for OS 9 too large – it's 250gb
in size, far outsizing 9's natural limitation. The external is connected via
Firewire 400, the internal is of course a SATA disk.
I'm an original owner of said system and have all the original CDs.
It's showing its age in little ways but it's chugging along. People
can't believe I'm still using a 15 year-old machine.
I'm in the market for a backup drive as I need to return that external due
to intermittent issues and I'd like to be able to boot from OS 9 or if not that
run Classic, as I have a number of OS 9-native programs. The reason for the
new backup external is simple: I've no other drive large enough to do so.
The sort of drive I have in mind is a 1T. I want to daisychain it via FW 800
once I get the replacement drive from Fantom. The current troublesome
external is a Fantom Green Drive Quad 3T, model #GD300Q. I'm in talks
now with MicroNet.
Basically I decided this backup drive to serve as a clone drive to my internal
disk, the dreaded "DeathStar", as it's now 15 years old. It will die someday,
and it will be necessary to swap the 1T for that disk in an emergency.
According to MicroNet's specs, The Green Drive will boot in Tiger 10.x,
no lower. BUT ... is it possible to put 9 on a size-friendly partition, say
100g, using a Tiger Disk Utility? This Utility MUST be at least 10.2.
As an example of the external's current operation, I cannot see any
of the partitions from The Green Drive while booted from OS 9 on my
internal SATA, but I dunno if it's because I'm using a SATA disk or it's
because the partition I formatted for OS 9 on the external is too large.
I'm betting it's the former. I'm assuming the manufacturer is trying to
tell me something in that, yes, their drive will NOT recognize OS 9.
At all. From what I can tell, that's not true.
Again, I realize that OS 9.2.2 has limitations as to the size of the drive/
partition being limited to 200g if installed via Disk Utility OS X 10.2; or,
128g if using an installer that's lower or whatever.
System Profiler says the OS 9 drivers are on that partition, but that does
not mean I can boot OS 9 from it, as it can't because of my mistake.
It says:
HDD SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 2.73 TB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk1
Mac OS 9 Drivers: Yes
But, in theory, if all that criterion is satisfied, I should be able to boot
off just about any external drive, correct? I add it's less important to
boot OS 9.2.2 itself, rather just access those programs via Classic.
I reason all I'd have to do is format/partition the external in Tiger,
get the OS 9 drivers, partition as instructed above using the 200/128g
limit using APM mapping, and I should be good, correct?
What is the proper procedure to get 9 to boot off a modern external,
other than that installer/partition schema above?
More info:
Internal: Original IBM SATA disk, 60g capacity, running Tiger 10.4.11/
Classic/OS 9.2.2*
*Mac OS Rom ver 9.0.1
External: Fantom Green Drive Quad 3T/Firewire 400
Partions:
1) OS 9.2.2, 250g capacity ( WRONG as noted above )
2) OS 10.4.11, 1.5T capacity
3) OS 10.5.8, 1T capacity
Thoughts?
Thanks.