Hello PeterH! Hi everyone! On Sunday, 19th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: > Practically, is has been possible to add the required LBA48 > properties to the Open Firmware facility for quite a number of G4 > Macs, and possibly also for ALL "New World" Macs, of which the very > first was the B&W G3. > > The LBA48 properties are free, and work on any supported MacOS X.
Thanks! That worked. So in the end the KeyLargo driver works anyway, but checks the Open Firmware properties and refuses to support LBA-48 if such is not found. Nice. I would have thought that Apple made the driver (AppleKeyLargo.kext) realize that EVERY KeyLargo ATA-5 and ATA-3 bus supports this and thus would activate it, with or without an Open Firmware device property. Anyway, I used this script (to make things more easy): http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata-hard-drives.html > The "High Cap" kext is a useful tool, but it has had a number of > revisions, and only the latest is usable on Leopard. The earlier > versions DO NOT SUPPORT Leopard. > > You can choose to buy the latest version of "High Cap", but I would > not do so. I use Tiger, at least for the time. When Snow Leopard is out (too soon, as I am really just starting to use the PowerPC Macs) I might reconsider and update to Leopard. Let's see. Thanks for the advice. I wouldn't have bought the driver -- too unsure if it doesn't complicate things. As my main operating system will stay Linux it wouldn't have made too much sense anyway. As for Mac OS 9 - if I should ever manage to prepare a partition for a standalone OS 9.2.2 (as the CPU Upgrade requires at least 9.2.1) I will make sure it is below the 128 GB barrier. And I would have been eager to test System 7 as well... So I will continue with SheepShaver... Thanks for the quick responses! Mac User #330250 alias Andreas. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
