Hello Power Mac people!
Once again I'm happy to share what I enjoyed playing with. It is not much, but
then: I'm not a software developer, so for my limited skills this is quite
okay I think!
On request of Valter Prahlad I made a Mac OS X 10.4 version of the modified
KeyLargoATA.kext, that ignores the lba-48 Open Firmware property and thus
always enables large drive support on Power Mac G4 computers prior to the
QS2002.
The advantage: you'll have access to the partitions past the 128 GB line
regardless of the lba-48 property. For example, when the NVRAM has been
zapped, or when the PRAM battery is low.
My previous KeyLargoATA.kext that I compiled for Leopard doesn't work in
Tiger. I tested this and it breaks the system ("no root device") (temporarily,
until restored from another Mac OS X).
The source code for KeyLargoATA is the same for 10.5 and for 10.4. My guess is
that it isn't interchangeable due to Xcode. I used 3.1.3 for Leopard, but had
to use 2.5 for Tiger.
So, while at it I figured out how to write a very simple Installer package and
it worked on my system.
I'll tweak it a little more and then I'll have Valter test it.
QUESTION:
Is anybody else interested in the package?
If so, are there any suggestions where to put it so that people can download
it?
I'm planning also to make such an Installer package for the 10.5 version, or
even one combined package (which is not soo easy BTW, at least for me, at
least not yet) that installs the correct kext for either 10.4 or 10.5.
Maybe also a 10.3 version of the kext is of some interest?
Anyway, I'm looking for your feedback!
Cheers,
Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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