I read somewhere that G3 iMacs have a 127GB disk limit (it said disk, not volume).
My G3 was running Jaguar and when I connected my Firewire disk the main volume (490GB) didn't show up, just the two smaller volumes, which I expected.
Now I've done a clean install of Tiger and not only does the main volume now mount, I can browse it, open files on it, and Finder reports the correct size and free space.
So does this mean that the 127GB limit is (was) an OS limit so I could replace the very noisy 10GB HDD with one >127GB?
My G3 was running Jaguar and when I connected my Firewire disk the main volume (490GB) didn't show up, just the two smaller volumes, which I expected.
Now I've done a clean install of Tiger and not only does the main volume now mount, I can browse it, open files on it, and Finder reports the correct size and free space.
So does this mean that the 127GB limit is (was) an OS limit so I could replace the very noisy 10GB HDD with one >127GB?