On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Matt Emson wrote: > Drift is where a file with in the firmware readable section of an extended > sized partition is written past the readable section of the disk. If the > third party driver fails, the partition will become unbootable. Because of > the way HFS stores data, this would likely cause a big chunk of the directory > to become corrupt. But this is going to be fairly hard to duplicate, and is > unlikely to happen in most cases.
The only way you could do that would be to format the drive on a machine that handles > 128Gb drives then put it in a machine that doesn't. If you format it on a machine without LBA48 support it CANNOT be written past 128Gb. Without either built-in LBA48 support or a patch the OS can't write a file past the limit, because it's the limit. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
