Hello everyone.

When dealing with an SCSI hard drive that has a total capacity of over 2 GB, will the Macintosh even detect the hard drive? I am curious how you can partition the drive into smaller chunks so you can install an OS on it. Bare with me, because I am going to give you a windows analogy (sorry for this!). So when installing windows on a pc, you have the option to partition the drive before you install the software. Is there a similar concept for Macs? or do I need to partition the drive on a healthy Mac and then insert it into the mac in which I want to install the OS on?

Also, how "modern" of an SCSI drive can you use with a mac? I know you can use the 80 pin drives, but how new of an 80 pin SCSI will work? I have heard stories of the driver in the hard drive not wanting to work with the macintosh OS, does that occur often?

To recap:

Can a hard drive that is over 2 gb in capacity be detected by a macintosh OS installation disk?

How and through what program can you partition an SCSI Hard Drive.

Finally, how new of an 80 pin SCSI drive can you use on a Mac (lets say it is going to be for a macintosh classic or an LC).

Thanks very much guys.