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[dkatz]

In the past, I somehow made hard drives that were larger than system 9 would allow, but formatting them, on an X computer, into partitions that were small enoug.
This worked.
But, I just tried the same thing with a new drive I bought (ion box new G drive). It has 2 TB, so I divided it up into 8 partitions...but it won't show up on my G4 running 9. Anyone know how to get around this..there are a lot of formatting initializing options, and I'm not sure which is the best.

[Jubadub]

In the past, I somehow made hard drives that were larger than system 9 would allow, but formatting them, on an X computer, into partitions that were small enoug.
This worked.
But, I just tried the same thing with a new drive I bought (ion box new G drive). It has 2 TB, so I divided it up into 8 partitions...but it won't show up on my G4 running 9. Anyone know how to get around this..there are a lot of formatting initializing options, and I'm not sure which is the best.

2 TB divided by 8 for 8 partitions total, if evenly-sized, means 256 GB per partition. But the absolute limit to boot a Mac OS 9.2.2 partition with the latest Mac OS 10.2.1 ROM file is 190 GB (or was it 189 GB? 180 GB? I get these 3 values mixed up.)

Just make sure to keep one of your 8 partitions a bit smaller to get under that limit. Personally, I use 30 GB as my Mac OS 9.2.2 booting partition, whereas ALL the rest goes into a 2nd partition containing any file that does not need to reside in the Mac OS partition. That 2nd partition can be ANY SIZE that is below 2 TB, Mac OS 9.2.2 can use it fully and perfectly once the OS is booted.

... Now this begs the question... How do we hack around the 10.2.1 ROM so that we can boot from partitions bigger than 190 GB... And from drives whose partition map is bigger than 2 TB...? It must be rather an attainable goal, probably much easier than reaching 2 GB max RAM...