Fix for 128GB drive limit?

[Don Montalvo]

those third party drivers eventually melt down or cause other problems. :(

don

At 5:45 -0700 8/14/03, albo <albo at CritPath.Org> wrote:

>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