A tip of the hat to the Mac OS 9 Lives website for getting to the bottom of
a mystery. The original Quicksilver Power Mac G4 from 2001 is not listed by
Apple as a model that supports big hard drives (over 128 GB), yet many
readers have reported that it works. They've discovered that it's a
A tip of the hat to the Mac OS 9 Lives website for getting to the bottom
of a mystery.
A number of G4 motherboards, other than those mentioned, are internally
capable of LBA48 operation, and persistently, too.
The LBA48 Property (which see, just Google it) may be persistently added
just about
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Subject: Re: Quicksilver big drive mystery solved
Date:Thursday, 08. November 2012
From:peterh...@cruzio.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
The LBA48 Property
This Open Firmware NVRAM property does not work with Mac OS 9.
Although large
