Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-25 Thread Mac User #330250
Hello PeterH! On Monday, 20th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: > On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > > Anyway, I used this script (to make things more easy): > > http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata- > > hard-drives.html > > From which I quote: > > > "Fin

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-25 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! On Monday, 20th of July 2009, Clark Martin wrote: > Mac User #330250 wrote: > > Hello PeterH! > > Hi everyone! > > > > On Sunday, 19th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: > >> Practically, is has been possible to add the required LBA48 > >> properties to the Open Firmware facility for quite a number

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Jonas Ulrich
While i do know from experience that "ata hi-cap driver" does work well, I would recommend either a firewire enclosure or a pci ata or sata card. -Jonas On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM, PeterH wrote: > > > On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > Meant to add, I recently chose to

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-19 Thread PeterH
On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > Anyway, I used this script (to make things more easy): > http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata- > hard-drives.html > From which I quote: "Finally IOATAController::issueCommand in IOATAFamily-173.3.1/ IOATACont

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-19 Thread Clark Martin
Mac User #330250 wrote: > Hello PeterH! > Hi everyone! > > On Sunday, 19th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: >> Practically, is has been possible to add the required LBA48 >> properties to the Open Firmware facility for quite a number of G4 >> Macs, and possibly also for ALL "New World" Macs, of which

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-19 Thread Mac User #330250
Hello PeterH! Hi everyone! On Sunday, 19th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: > Practically, is has been possible to add the required LBA48 > properties to the Open Firmware facility for quite a number of G4 > Macs, and possibly also for ALL "New World" Macs, of which the very > first was the B&W G3. >

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread PeterH
On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > Meant to add, I recently chose to buy a Firmtek Seritek SATA PCI card > and 1TB SATA Seagate HD from OWC to solve the issue in my Digital > Audio Dual 533. ANY iSAT or eSATA implementation implicitly provides LBA48, as all such implementatio

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 19, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > It can be overcome with an Open Firmware update, or an IDE PCI > controller card. Meant to add, I recently chose to buy a Firmtek Seritek SATA PCI card and 1TB SATA Seagate HD from OWC to solve the issue in my Digital Audio Dual 533. --~

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread PeterH
On Jul 19, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > I would like to know if the limit of the pre-Quicksilver 2002 Power > Macs is a > hard limit or whether it can be managed to access beyond this barrier. Officially, the pre-QS 2002 ROM DOES NOT SUPPORT LBA48. Practically, is has been po

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
Search the G3-G5 list for "LBA48" and you'll see several good discussions. Also get the free Mactracker from: http://www.mactracker.ca/ And it will show you your G4 does have the limitation. It can be overcome with an Open Firmware update, or an IDE PCI controller card. You might also inve

large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! I would like to know if the limit of the pre-Quicksilver 2002 Power Macs is a hard limit or whether it can be managed to access beyond this barrier. I have a Quicksilver 2001, the 733 MHz model with an OWC Mercury Extreme G4 CPU Upgrade to 1,467 MHz and 1.5 GB of RAM. This doesn't look so