On Jul 6, 2009, at 20:17, Bill Connelly wrote:
> > On Jul 6, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Michael Koch wrote: > >> >> Question to All >> Has anyone gotten OverDrive to work; in overcoming the 128Gb limit ? >> I installed it on the wife's G4 Dual 500 and it makes on difference. >> When i go to find update, I get file not found. >> Any advice > > OverDrive has a decent How To tutorial. I just re-read it and feel I > could run it successfully if I need to. Since I'm using an ATA > controller PCI card that overrides the limitation, I'm not inclined to > experiment on my current setup in my DA Dual 533 under Leopard ... > well not any more at present. > > AFAIK: You won't be able to search for any changes made by OverDrive > using the Finder ... I believe the changes occur in NVRAM using Open > Firmware at Startup. Something like that ... > > You would test to see if it worked by using Disk Utility and see how > much of the >128GB drive is there ... hopefully all of it, after > you've restarted your system, after running OverDrive. > > OverDrive allegedly will also help partition the new drive, so your > first partition is a 128GB one ... in case you lose the LBA48 > property, and need to run OverDrive again ... avoiding writing > anything past that 128GB limit ... that would most likely mess the > partition up, or corrupt a file (my experience). > > 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. > > I think that's how it might work best. > > My thoughts anyway. > > > > I did all that ; set Overdrive on second HD; started on first drive: I have not bin able to get it to work only see 138 Gb out of 250 Gb. What is the "High Cap" LBA48 and how does it work. I do not want to install a controller card or buy speed tools ; rather spend the cash on a different computer for the wife ( she who must be obeyed ) thinking of a G4 or G5; she does not us it except for e-mail and such. thank you for the help have a nice day Michael Koch mk...@ncwcom.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
