On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Powerbook G3 Store wrote:
Yes you can use a larger hard drive but as I recall, main partition
needs to be about 7GB below the 128GB threshold or else OS files
can drift and prevent the drive from booting. So for example if
you have 160GB drive 80+80 or 100+60 to be safe. There are
utilities you can buy to use a larger partition but I never thought
of spending the money to do it. One from Intech is called
SpeedTools ATA Hi-Capacity Driver
"Drift"????
No, you can make the partition as big as Disk Utilities will allow.
DU and the OS SEE 128Gb and that doesn't change nor drift.
Without Speed tools or the firmware patch nothing above 128Gb can be
accessed, partitions included.
A common approach with the patches is to limit the first partition to
just below 128Gb so that it can be accessed with or without a patch
(and therefore you can boot and re-apply the patch if / when needed).
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