Ennio-(Sr) wrote: > Hi all! > > I've read somewhere that the captioned iBook can be fit with a HD of no > more than 30GB. > Can some of you confirm this is correct and explain whether the > limitation is due to the original OpenFirmware not being able to format > the disk or any other reason? > > I case the limitation dipends from OF, wouldn't it be possible, in > case of a larger disk, to partition it up to the maximum capacity Apple > OF is able to see, and leave to Linux to deal with the remaining space ? > > Thanks for your attention. > Regards, > Ennio. > > My, ...
I have on a Macintosh powerbook 3400c a disk of 60 GB, witch was formated on a MacOS 9.1 on a G3 266 Mhz - with ide. And all that work grate with sarge, and X. regards, Eugen Paiuc
/dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 54 @ 64 ( 27.0k) Unknown /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 74 @ 118 ( 37.0k) Unknown /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda5 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Home file system 19483599 @ 1216 ( 9.3G) Linux native /dev/hda7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 big 91896185 @ 19484815 ( 43.8G) Linux native /dev/hda8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1073617 @ 111381000 (524.2M) Linux swap /dev/hda9 Apple_HFS sans titre 4 4755613 @ 112454617 ( 2.3G) HFS /dev/hda10 Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 117210230 ( 5.0k) Free space Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: @ 64 for 21, type=0x701 2: @ 118 for 34, type=0xf8ff