Il giorno 6-04-2011 1:42, [email protected] ha scritto: >> Speaking of LBA48... Yellow Dog Linux and Debian Linux both report and use >> the full 250 GB (because that is the size of my HD) in my QS 2001. But Mac >> OS 10.5 sees it as a 128 GB drive. Woah! :-o So it isn't an hardware limitation (as I always had thought)...
> On any Macs which have a Key Largo ATA chip, you may override the O.F. > definition with a patch. Either one or both channels. > > As the patch is persistent in the read-only storage, it is good until the > PRAM is reset. > > Unlike the "High Cap" kext, the O.F. patch is good at all times. Really aroused from your comments :-D I did some research and found many info about using HDs bigger than 128GB in G3-G4 Macs (caution: if you want to try that, read carefully, you could lose your data): http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata-hard-drives. html (this has a link for the "enable-lba48" script) http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/browse_thread/thread/22ffcb9d07ffa9 48 https://groups.google.com/group/pci-powermacs/browse_thread/thread/04380ae39 d2e1fa1?hl=en Oh, Man! I never knew this! :-o If I only had knew it before... I have a 250GB HD now, using only the first 128GB (of course)... and quite full. I wonder... if I'll use the script and enable the 48bit LBA, I think Disk Utility will then show the unused portion of the drive. Will I be able to partition and format that portion and using it, WITHOUT DAMAGING the already existing partitions??? Using the script and enabling the 48bit LBA, can in itself be dangerous for the data residing on the drive(s)? Please advise, I'm tempted AND scared! :-/ -- 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
