On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
> How large a hard drive can I use in a B&W? The ROM officially supports 131,072 MB, which equals 128 GB. As a practical matter, 120 GB is the largest "trade size" drive which is supported. However, using Hard Drive SpeedTools (OS 9 and OS X), and a related program "High-Cap kext", your B&W can support any sized drive when connected through either the HD bus (33 MB/sec) or the optical/Zip bus (16.67 MB/sec). As the B&W is a "New World" Mac, OS X would, in any case, have to be within the first 128 GB (131,072 MB). OS 9 does not have this limitation. Finally, although this has not been tested by me, the "LBA48 property", that which is actually required to address greater than 131,072 MB, might be able to be added to the ROM's NVRAM extension using the "LBA48 scripts". I'll leave that as an exercise for others as I no longer operate B&Ws in my shop. The "LBA48 scripts" are known to work on nearly every G4 model up to, and including the QS 2001 G4, after which the "LBA48 Property" became standard on all Macs. http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a A home for the Hackintosh community. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
