[G4] Mac CPUs for sale

RICHARD NORTHOUSE rnorthouse at wi.rr.com
Mon Feb 15 16:26:09 PST 2010


Harry,

Did you post some tower mac cpu's for sale?  I recently saw the post  
but now I can't find it. I thought it might have yours??

Rich

On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:

> There is an Open Firmware patch that will you allow the use of the  
> larger drives.
> However if you reset Open Firmware then you can only use the first  
> 128Gb of a large drive.
> There is an application that you can purcase that loads first and  
> sets the Open Firmware so that larger drive can be used.
>
> Cheers
>
> Harry
> ----------------------------------------------------
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>> And, by the way, I've seen people in the past blame Apple for
>> the 128MB drive size limitation, as if it were some hack Apple
>> introduced. But that actually was a 28-bit logical block address
>> size limitation inherent in the original ATA spec that wasn't
>> removed until ATA-6, which went to 48-bit LBA, in 2001.
>>
>> Eric S.
>>
>> J.M.P.Hissel wrote:
>>> On 12-02-2010 03:22, Don, bgnss at sbcglobal.net, wrote:
>>>> The G3 apparently only allows up to 80 GB maximum size.
>>>>
>>>> Then I'd like to transfer the new HD over to either
>>>> my G4 tower or a B&W G3 on a one way 'bon voyage' trip.
>>>>
>>>> The G4 tower apparently WILL read a 128 GB drive.
>>>> The B&W G3, I don't know for sure.
>>> All the beige and B&W G3's can use a 128 MB HD.
>>> Jo Hissel
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