On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:13 PM, joan wrote:
> Would love some suggestions on what to get to upgrade my 867 Power PC > G4. We just added more memory and have 2 GB. The Bus speed is 133 MHz > and I'm using 10.4.11. We have external LaCie and Maxtor hard drives > but would like to beef up the G4 itself. 10.4.11 works very well. I use it every day as my mail handler. What I have done is piggy-back a 500 GB drive on top of the 160 GB main drive. Today, I would piggy-back a 750 GB drive. As usual, there is the issue of LBA48, and for that purpose I use the NVRAM strings. But, there is now a free driver for MacOS so you won't have to but "High Cap". You would still partition your drive as if you were using "High Cap": the first partition would be 131,072 MB and the second partition would be the remainder of the drive. With the NVRAM strings, you may be able to use the entire drive as a single partition. I haven't tried that, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work as the LBA48 properties are added "persistently" to the MacOS ROM. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
