After thinking about what I wrote, I believe that you can get the same information with Disk Utility. The volumes are listed in the left-hand column in their order on the disk.
If a volume's directory is within the 128GB limit, it should show up as mounted, even though reads and writes to part of the volume may fail (silently??). If a volume's directory is beyond the 128GB limit, it should show up, but as unmountable, since its directory will not be readable. - Aaron >Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 02:31:04 -0800 >To: [email protected] >From: Aaron <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting > >At 18:11 -0800 2009/03/01, tonycd wrote: >> > As for which is first, I don't think the Panther one is #1 (I think >>> it's #3), but I can't be sure because now I can't see the sequence. >>> >>> But, yes... in a masterpiece of poor planning, I think the Panther one is >>> probably the only one that's BIGGER than 128. (Double duh.) >>- > >(I'm not sure if pdisk is incluced in the standard OS X installation or if it >requires the xtools package, so this may possibly not work for you.) > >Open the Terminal and type 'sudo pdisk'. Then, after entering your >administrator password, type 'L' (Without the quotes, of course!) as the >top-level command. It will give you the size and locations of all partitions >on all your disks that are recognized by the system that are partition with >the Apple Partition Map, which yours probably are. SInce it only has to read a >tiny portion of the beginning of the disk, it will not be affected by the >128GB limit. > >The names of the partitions may not be the same as their current names in the >Finder, but if you know the approxiamate sizes of the various volumes, you can >probably figure out which is which. > >BTW, although pdisk can be a dangerous utility if you use it to alter a disk >by editing and writing to it, just looking at what's already there can't do >any harm. > > - Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
