Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Clark Martin
On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: 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

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread peterhaas
The chief danger in that script is that if you do an OF reset you will lose access to the part of the drive above 128Gb until you re-activate the script. If you keep your current 128Gb partition that will still be available, just any new partition you create will not be available. You might

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Bill Connelly
On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: 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

Re: Will a QS2002 Dual-1GHz CPU work in a QS?

2011-04-06 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Will a QS2002 Dual-1GHz CPU work in a QS? Date:Wednesday, 06. April 2011 From:peterh...@cruzio.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Any QS 2001 proc will work in a QS 2002. Any QS 2002 proc will work in a QS 2001. … I have

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Clark Martin
On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:44 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: 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

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs! Date:Wednesday, 06. April 2011 From:peterh...@cruzio.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com My QS 2001 eventually received a QS 2002 motherboard and dual 1.0 GHz processor from an LEM buy, so there is no

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs! Date:Wednesday, 06. April 2011 From:Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: … Activating the patch will make the remainder of your

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs! Date:Wednesday, 06. April 2011 From:Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Woah! :-o So it isn't an hardware limitation (as I always had thought)... No. It's an Open

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 8:22 PM +0200 4/6/11, as Mac User #330250 so eloquently wrote: (snip) The chief danger in that script is that if you do an OF reset you will lose access to the part of the drive above 128Gb until you re-activate the script. Sorry, I missed that. How again? No danger if the

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread Sean Carroll
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

Re: Using HD 128GB in G4 Macs!

2011-04-06 Thread peterhaas
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 Try for an Initio-based SATA card. These are (or were) sold by LaCie, OWC and possibly others. Some are all