On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
> Reread use of s Single Drive versus using 2 ... it recommends using > overdrive for a second HD, since you have to be booted into the first > one to run it. I'm thinking I'd clone my current OS X onto a spare > 80GB, and use that as my OS X drive (never having to worry about the > LBA48 limitation). Then I would run OverDrive and install my 500GB > drive as a second HD ... partition it with 128GB as a first partition, > and then the rest as I needed. Whether "High Cap", LBA48 Property or "OverDrive", the most restrictive application is: 1) first partition is precisely 131,072 MB, and 2) remaining partitions are anything you want. With (1) and (2) applied religiously, whether you use "High Cap", LBA48 Property or "OverDrive" really doesn't matter, the result is the same: if the kext or property is lost, you will still see the first 131,072 MB, which is were your primary OSes should be located (I partition my first 131,072 MB into four equal sized partitions as I support 10.4.11, 10.3.9, 10.3.9 Server and 10.5.7, roughly in that order of precedence). Now, if you properly use the LBA48 property, you will have the equivalent of a Quicksilver 2002, and you can have all your disks as single partitions. There are lots of choices, and one completely "fail safe" implementation, and one "maximum utilization" implementation. The choice is yours! Because of a farkle-up by Intech (failing to provide me with an e- mail receipt and a valid customer code for my "retail" purchase from them of "High Cap", I have elected to go with the LBA48 property on my DAs, but not on my QSes (which are 2002s, so these don't need any help, anyway). The way I have partitioned all my drives is compatible with any of the above-mentioned method, and I can freely move my boot-drive/data- drive two-high carrier amongst any of my machines. Fortunately, I have not had to: my lone remaining DA is still on its initial installation of the LBA48 property, after I first discovered that the version of "High Cap" which I had would not support Leopard (no help, nor information from Intech, on that score, for several months). My sole remaining DA has never had a "reset-nvram" done to it since first installing the LBA48 properties (one on the HD bus, the other on the optical bus), and I have been perfectly happy with that solution for literally years. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
