On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Eric Herbert wrote:
Just remember on any G4 made prior to the Quicksilver 2002, you're
limited to a 120GB or smaller drive on the internal IDE bus.
There are multiple ways to get around this artificial 128GB limitation:
1)Use commercial software from Intech. You can format any larger than
128GB HD so that it's recognized in MacOS (OS9) by using Speedtools
3.5 for OS 9 to format the HD as HFS+. You can add greater than 128GB
support to OS X by using the Intech Hi-Cap kernel extension for OS X.
2)You can modify the firmware directly using instructions from here:
<http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48-support-on-the-g4-cube-with-leopard/
>
3)You can use the freeware program Overdrive from GenThree to add
LBA48 support:
<http://www.macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=1953>(may need to register
to download?)
Any of these three methods will remove the artificial 128GB limit so
that larger modern HDs can be used. Since PATA HDs are more expensive
than SATA, it might be better to get an SATA PCI card and switch over
to SATA HDs. If you already have an older PATA HD greater than 128GB
any of these three solutions will work for it.
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