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IIO:
if an imac can only see 130 of 500, the problem is not the formatting tool. ;)

Jubadub:

--- Quote from: IIO on November 17, 2024, 05:47:51 AM ---if an imac can only see 130 of 500, the problem is not the formatting tool. ;)

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It was the "Mac OS 9 install" / Drive Setup app that only showed "about 130GB", not the iMac, so much so that @•_indigo_• bypassed the issue by using Disk Utility in OS X. This is a known limitation of Drive Setup 1.9.2 and earlier (exact limit is 128 GB), which is overcome with Drive Setup 2.1.

There's also the hardware-based limitation of 128 GB in older IDE controllers present in a lot of the Macs, but since using barebones OS X didn't manifest the issue, then that wasn't the problem of @•_indigo_•'s Mac, also because booting back into Mac OS 9, all the 500 GB was available. So it is an issue with the formatting tool.

TL;DR No need for OS X, the drive can be setup and used fully from Mac OS 9.

IIO:

--- Quote from: Jubadub on November 17, 2024, 07:08:57 AM ---
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somehow his name "indigo" got me on the completely wrong path.^^ ok so it is a G4 imac.

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