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Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
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.
jt:
--- Quote from: nanopico on November 12, 2015, 10:50:59 AM ---Pretty much anything that would belong in the Toolbox or System folder.
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Dunno if this is in the right place, but I'd like to see Zip Driver (Control Panel option toggled?) in the System folder of the Mac OS9Lives installer CD.
I'd like to be able to run alternate disk formatting utilities and general troubleshooting programs from the Zip Drive in my G4 Towerss while booted from the installer CD.
Specific problem ATM is that the 128MB mSATA drives are showing up as "not supported" and so assuming SATA SSD will be the same deal. I've tried PATA Adapter on Master and Slave connectors of MDD'03 front bay and on a new SATA/PATA card.
Does enabling such a troubleshooting setup on Zip make sense overall?
Trekintosh:
I mean, hey, since we're casting pennies into the wishing well, it would be awful nice if there were even rudimentary hardware accelerated drivers for a PCI GeForce 6200 for OS 9. It's the earliest and crummiest GPU with CoreImage support for dual-booting heathens.
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