Thanks for the reply,I actually "tried for free" the Intech's solution,but I think I'll try the other methods too.. The newwer HDD made a lot of difference,if it was an 3.5' 7200rpm it would be even faster..but I had this 2.5 5400rpm laying around from my macbook 6.1.. When I have a little more money maybe I'll spend it on a 9700pro (22eur) and more ram,although I know that the bottleneck is the processor I think having 2Gb of ram make difference (I had in my office a core 2 duo macbook white with tiger and 1gb of ram and it was slooooow...after the upgrade to 2gb it seemed a different computer! FAST!
On Mar 13, 12:25 pm, Dennis Myhand <[email protected]> wrote: > skinnie wrote: > > Where can I find info about the hack?I've searched already but didn't > > found it... > > I am trying to make this machine really "lowend" on money,because: > > 1)I'll only use it on weekends > > 2)I am student and don't have much money. > > Here is the message. I could not find Overdrive so I did the firmware hack. > > On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: > > >> I just acquired a 320 GB HD for mySawtoothFrankenMac. 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-... > > > > >> Is there a free disk utility which will let me use the whole drive? > > Yes, Overdrive mentioned with link above. > > > > >> Stewie > > >> _________________________________________________________________ > >> Looking for a new home? With all the latest places, searching has never > >> been easier.http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
