Never got to work with anything larger than a 9G - what is the largest size hard drive Mac OS will recognize?
OS of interest is 9.x
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2 TB according to some specs, 127-ish GB according to others, though the latter may apply to partition size not drive size.
I've read many times that at least on the beige & B&W G3s, you need to partition larger drives so the OS sits in the first 8 GB on the drive, otherwise there's a risk of data corruption.
My plan is to sit the OS on a 4G and upgrade my other drives as much as it will let me. I would hate to drop in a 360G drive and only get half of it.
That is the key - I am looking to use these for non-OS drives. If I have to put multiple partitions on the drive that is liveable.
That applies to the IDE bus only IIRC
The limitation is purely IDE, IIRC scsi can handle large drives without a problem.