Max. Volume Size 8.6 Can Address?

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Max. Volume Size 8.6 Can Address?

Oookay. I picked a 8500/180 out of the trash for a best friend who wants to put his humongous .mp3 collection into it, and get all the music off his Dell (it's got terminal virii problems).

This is NOT going to be internetted at all - he basically wants a jukebox setup that he can put on during the day and play .mp3's with. Nothing more.

I got iTunes 1.1 for OS8 into the 8500 it and it works just dandy, also a copy of the freeware SoundApp 2.7.3 (which I still think works better'n anything for ripping CD's).

I fished roughly 96 MB worth of RAM out of various dead older beiges and that all works (woo-hoo!! dumpster diving rules!!).

This resurrected Mac has my old 8.6 OS in it now, and I got the USB support extensions from my OS9 disk, and kitted my old USB 1.1 card into it and the USB works.

The rub is it's got the original SCSI hard drive that's only 2 GB so storage of songs on it is out f the question.

He's thinking of getting a 160 GB external USB drive, as he can't find decent sized SCSI drives (which is what that model is - not an ATA kind). I know that when he does get the external drive, we'll probably set it up on my Mac and put several partitions in it. I don't know what the limit on the sizes of those partitions needs to be so OS 8.6 can handle them.

Anyone got any ideas?

Posted on Jul 11, 2005 4:49 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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Jul 11, 2005 9:36 PM in response to Deborah Terreson

Mac OS 8.6 can handle a disk in Mac OS Standard or Mac OS Extended format up to 2TB in size. You may run into issues if you try accessing a DOS formatted hard disk that is larger than 32GB. The maximum file size in Mac OS 8.6 is 2GB.

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Answer 2

eww

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Jul 15, 2005 1:02 PM in response to Deborah Terreson

Deborah: USB 1.1 (USB 2.0 is unsupported in OS 8.x and 9.x) would be deathly slow as the connection protocol for a primary hard drive no one will recommend that. To use any drive larger than 137GB, you'll need an ATA 100 or ATA 133 bus to connect it to, and that means installing an ATA 100/133 adapter card in one of your PCI slots. Having done that, you might as well install a big ATA hard drive inside the 8600: it will be larger than any SCSI drive, and eliminate the bulk and hassle of an external unit. If you install a 160GB ATA drive as an internal unit connected to an appropriate adapter card, the entire drive will be recognized and usable, either as a single large partition (of roughly 148-150 GB after formatting) or as several smaller ones. An ATA 66 or ATA 33 adapter card would only allow the OS to recognize about 137 GB of any larger drive, regardless of partitioning. If you were satisfied with a 120GB hard drive, a less expensive ATA 66 card would serve you fine.

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Answer 3

Sep 19, 2005 8:42 AM in response to Deborah Terreson

Deborah,

Like Niel says, if you use the SCSI interface, you're laughing. Well nearly. You'll have to make sire that the SCSI interface for the disk is suitable with what you've already got in the 5600. Don't go for an external disk, rip out the 2Gb and put the new disk in it's place.

Or maybe I'm thinking too far back. My IIci has a SCSI-1 interface, after that was SCSI-2 or Fast SCSI, then there was SCSI-3, or Fast & Wide SCSI. I don't know what interface was in the 5600, it may be OK with anything.

Be prepared to pay about £20 more for a SCSI disk than an IDE / EIDE equivalent.

Do the Hitachi, Quantum and Westrn Digital websites to find the models on offer and then look for local resellers, the Hitachi (Global Storage Solutions) website lists local resellers.

Or go dumpster diving again, but don't expect to find anything bigger than 20Gb (although I've just given away an old 60Gb).

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