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Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
keithiepoo:
--- Quote from: lepidotos on August 18, 2021, 01:26:02 PM ---Multi-button mouse support would be nice.
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Don't you mean, "...would be... mice" ?? :D :D
Okay, okay, sorry.
Bolkonskij:
LOL :-D
Never heard about the "resource decompression" issue but I'd be interested to hear more about it / see a fix for that too if it'd increase backwards compatibility.
IIO:
multi button mouse, not multi mice button.
•_indigo_•:
--- Quote from: torvan on June 22, 2017, 12:45:00 AM ---I have to second, third or fourth agree (I lost track) on the idea (and near need) of using large drives without having to shell out the money (and the resulting "be damn careful as data loss can happen" warnings) for the Intech Disk SpeedTools driver.
Especially with the move to SSDs happening all over, not to mention replacement mechanical disk drives, all of which are going to get (if not already) impossible to use because all are larger than that which Drive Setup can see and use. So you are stuck with not being able to use the whole drive.
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I ran into this recently after I upgraded the hard drive in my iMac G4 to a 500GB and the MacOS 9 install would only let me see about 130GB of the drive. I had to set up an OSX partition, install OSX Tiger, and then initialize the rest of the drive from there. I set up two 190GB partitions and then a smaller one of whatever space was leftover, and I can access all of them from OS9. It took the better part of a weekend to figure this all out, but I got it working.
Part of it was that I couldn't do a fresh install of MacOS9 Lives - the Drive Setup app would only let me initialize my freshly partitioned drive. So what I had to do was launch into Tiger and then use Disk Utility to 'Restore' the disk image off the MacOS9 Lives CD.
Jubadub:
--- Quote from: •_indigo_• on September 23, 2024, 07:33:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: torvan on June 22, 2017, 12:45:00 AM ---I have to second, third or fourth agree (I lost track) on the idea (and near need) of using large drives without having to shell out the money (and the resulting "be damn careful as data loss can happen" warnings) for the Intech Disk SpeedTools driver.
Especially with the move to SSDs happening all over, not to mention replacement mechanical disk drives, all of which are going to get (if not already) impossible to use because all are larger than that which Drive Setup can see and use. So you are stuck with not being able to use the whole drive.
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I ran into this recently after I upgraded the hard drive in my iMac G4 to a 500GB and the MacOS 9 install would only let me see about 130GB of the drive. I had to set up an OSX partition, install OSX Tiger, and then initialize the rest of the drive from there. I set up two 190GB partitions and then a smaller one of whatever space was leftover, and I can access all of them from OS9. It took the better part of a weekend to figure this all out, but I got it working.
Part of it was that I couldn't do a fresh install of MacOS9 Lives - the Drive Setup app would only let me initialize my freshly partitioned drive. So what I had to do was launch into Tiger and then use Disk Utility to 'Restore' the disk image off the MacOS9 Lives CD.
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Drive Setup 2.1 can format partitions as big as 2 TB directly from OS 9, no OS X needed. At least as long it is not a FireWire drive, which in OS 9 requires Drive Setup 1.9.2 instead.
Also to quote myself on how to use Drive Setup 2.1 for creating partitions as big as 2 TB:
--- Quote ---Now one thing you might notice when using Drive Setup 2.1 is that, when configuring your partitions, the partition size textboxes cannot display all the digits, but they certainly store the correct values. You may also notice that if you try typing in the value you want, it will go awry, and not allow you to type values you might want, and will start wrapping those values around in an very confusing fashion. So one thing you can do, instead, is to click and drag up/down the upper/lower borders of the drawing on the left representing your partitions and their sizes. That works right, somehow. One final note is that Drive Setup 2.1 has a huge preference to default to 1TB as a maximum partition size, funnily enough, so make sure to use the workarounds that were just described.
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