Why do all of my SCSI drives get halved when I install Openstep? EX: 4GB becomes 2gb and my 2gb became 1gb. Any explanation here?
As far as I know that's what NeXTSTEP (or OPENSTEP) does when a hard drive capacity exceeds the maximum for a single volume.
I had that with NeXTSTEP 3.3 and two 2 GB hard drives. One drive (ST32550N) had a capacity of 2047 Megabyte and installed just fine in one single partition while the other (ST32171N) with a 2061 Megabyte capacity would always be split up into two partitions.
I know that NeXTSTEP 3.3 has a 2 GB (2048 Megabyte) volume size limit. I think OPENSTEP 4.2 as it was distributed originally (without patch) has a 4 GB limit which should be precisely 4096 Megabyte. So if your hard drive capacity is above the limit the installer automatically splits it in two equal sized partitions.
But why OPENSTEP splits your 2 GB drive is something I don't understand ...
Quote from: "pan1k"Why do all of my SCSI drives get halved when I install Openstep? EX: 4GB becomes 2gb and my 2gb became 1gb. Any explanation here?
BTW, you can mount the second part of these hd and get the full capacity.
(do a "df" in terminal to get the device name)
Andreas, thanks. I bought a SCSI Drive from eBay, and I got OS 4.2 to install, but it won't boot. I copied the jumper settings from my old Seagate drive, but I think it's as termination issue.. *sigh* NeXT is so picky about SCSI. I put the slab away for ahwile! LOL