[G4] Hard Drive Size

[Harry Freeman]

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
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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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