Fix for 128GB drive limit?

[albo]

Hi,
I installed a Maxtor 160GB drive in my G4/400 AGP Graphics about a month 
ago, using Hard Disk Speed Tools while booted up in OS9 to "fool" the 
computer into recognizing the whole drive.  Is there a better way to 
deal with the very annoying 128GB per-drive limit?
The drive worked OK for a month, but I had a melt-down on that drive 
last weekend: whether it's related to the 128GB limit I don't know. 
I've re-initialized the drive with both HDST and Disk Utility (taking it 
back down to 128GB)and one of the partitions won't mount in OSX (most of 
the time) and Disk Utility gives me an "Invalid map node linkage" 
message when I verify it. DU and Drive10 won't fix it.  Surface scan is 
fine.
Any chance it's related to the size limit?
Thanks!
Albo