On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote:
> > Folks, after Kris Tilford's kind suggestions, I pursued hacking my G4 > DA to support large drives. I found a good deal on a 250 GB PATA drive > at my local computer emporium (cheaper than a 160!), and replaced the > dying 120 GB second drive with it. When i rebooted, sure enough, the > system only recognized 128 GB of it. I tried Kris' hack, and found out > that I really didn't know as much as I thought I did about the Apple > command line (OSX has two different shells, I had to relearn vi, etc., > etc., etc.), so I pursued this: > > http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48- > support-on-the-g4-cube-with > -leopard/ > > It's an Open Firmware hack that essentially does the same thing > through a different path. It's a little unnerving; when one types in > a line of new code and hits enter, the line just entered disappears. Didn't someone recommend making the first partition 128GB (or all the important ones within that limit), in case you needed to temporarily lose the Hack? Wonder if there's a way to run the Hack with each Cold Start? making it run after any possible PRAM Resets? Would that affect the HD, or any system references to it? Questions for your new class? ... Good luck, Bill Connelly Musician and Painter artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio/ myspace.com: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
