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.
Last December, when I was still a complete hardware ignoramus, I
faced a situation where replacing one or both of my 40 GB HDs seemed
a very urgent matter (it wasn't, as it turns out, but that's not
important here). I hastened to school myself on HDs and purchased a
160 GB drive. Can't remember if I learned about the 128 GB limitation
(here) just before or after this. In any case, there was a period
where I figured I'd have to resign myself to 32 GB wasted. Then,
someone was kind enough to share the enable-LBA48 patch with me
(thanks again, man!). Ha! At first, I was too dumb to figure out how
to *run* the patch. But I got it eventually.
Anyway, I've had any number of partition schemes on both drives over
the last 4 months (I always CCC a backup clone and erase the drive
I'm partitioning first, never tried or even considered partial
partitioning), and I've also zapped PRAM a number of times and even
replaced the PRAM battery in the meantime, losing LBA48 and having to
run the patch again more than once. For the sake of my PATA (IDE)
drive - the SATA 750 GB seems immune to the changes. I have had no
data loss or corruption or had any other funky business occur as a
result. I've worked all partitioning schemes around that first-128 GB
borderline everyone has mentioned. No problems.
Don't be afraid. enable-LBA48 is your friend. Either that, or get a
SATA drive/PCI SATA controller that has - as my Seagate and/or Sonnet
seem(s) to - LBA48 "built in."
Sean Carroll
[email protected]
Power Mac G4 AGP "Sawtooth" 1.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 1 each SATA (750 GB) &
PATA (160 GB) hard drives, gigabit ethernet & USB 2.0, ATI Radeon 9800
Pro, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 & Leopard 10.5.8
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