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Subject: Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth
Date:Thursday, 06. January 2011
From:Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
I've made a very small (10 GB, or was it 5??? I have to check) first
partiton that has
To make a long story long...
When I posed my questions, I had a 160 GB HD (recognized as 128 GB)
and one of my old 40 GB HDs installed (no external HD). After seeing
the answers, I sought an easy way to start over with the 160 GB HD
that didn't involve *too* much starting over (building a fresh
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Subject: Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth
Date:Sunday, 09. January 2011
From:Sean Carroll cedarwaxw...@att.net
To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
To make a long story long...
Oh man. Sorry for this ill-fated adventure you went though
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Subject: Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth
Date:Monday, 10. January 2011
From:Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
BTW, from my understanding of things I'd go with the smaller partition / OS
first, i.e
The boot files need to be below the 128 GB barrier, so this first partition
should be below this limit anyhow.
Andreas - no need to apologize. The above statement of yours was the
clue that enabled me to put things together at last just after my last
post. Having repartitioned the 160 GB HD
Thanks, guys, for the expansive and informative answers. I appreciate
the detail. Many if not most discussion forums are short on it. I'm
not sure if people are in a hurry or just figure answering at length
is wasted on the questioner. I like it when people anticipate the
questions behind the
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Subject: Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth
Date:Thursday, 06. January 2011
From:Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
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If you formatted the new HD on a Mac that supports LBA48 addressing so
that it currently
4. Will it even work on this Sawtooth (read something about 100 MHz
bus speed being a stumbling block, might have misunderstood).
100 MHz bus is not a stumbling block per se, lack of a Key Largo ATA chip is.
Certainly, the (100 MHz bus) gigabit Ethernet PPC Macs have a Key Largo
chip, and so
(Power Mac G4 Sawtooth 450 MHz, Bus Speed 100 MHz, 512 MB RAM, running
OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and OS 9.2.2 on separate partitions of a 160 GB
hard drive, Tiger 10.4.11 on another 40 GB HD)
Questions about installing an Enable-LBA48 patch:
1. When? (Any time?)
2. From where? (OS X on either drive?)
On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Sean Carroll wrote:
Essentially, I need to know if running this patch undoes anything/
everything done to partition and copy to the new HD. Under the
impression that my old hard drive was failing fast, I was in some
hurry to get the new HD going and consequently
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