Thanks, Kris and Stewie for the answers I was looking for.
Kris Tilford wrote:
On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote:
I just acquired a 320 GB HD for my Sawtooth FrankenMac. I know there
is a 128 GB limit on drive size. What do I need to do to use the
whole drive?
Use an enabler for LBA48 support or do the firmware patch.
One method is to use Intech's solution, which costs $. With Intech if
you're using OS 9 you must format the HD with Speedtools 3.5 for OS9. In
OS X you need the Intech Hi-Cap extension, and then for safety you'd
want to add a partition break at the exact 128GB mark (131,072MB exactly).
Another solution is the freeware Overdrive
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/209276>
A third is to manually tweak the firmware
<http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata-hard-drives.html>
Is there a free disk utility which will let me use the whole drive?
Yes, Overdrive mentioned with link above.
Even if I set it up with three partitions, that would be okay. I just
want access to all of the drive.
I think you can partition it into 3 smaller volumes and get the added
space. Not sure if you can do that directly on the Sawtooth.
No. Number of partitions has nothing to do with this. In OS X it's
better to have the largest partition possible, so one partition is
optimal unless you're installing more than one bootable system.
Another option is to get an ATA PCI card or a Firewire external
enclosure.
Older ATA cards and Firewire bridges also have the 128GB limit, so you'd
need to be certain the one you got supports drives larger than 128GB.
Virtually all new product now does support larger drives, but used items
may not?
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