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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> G4 mailing list >>> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >> _______________________________________________ >> G4 mailing list >> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4