On Jul 6, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Michael Koch wrote:
> > Question to All > Has anyone gotten OverDrive to work; in overcoming the 128Gb limit ? > I installed it on the wife's G4 Dual 500 and it makes on difference. > When i go to find update, I get file not found. > Any advice OverDrive has a decent How To tutorial. I just re-read it and feel I could run it successfully if I need to. Since I'm using an ATA controller PCI card that overrides the limitation, I'm not inclined to experiment on my current setup in my DA Dual 533 under Leopard ... well not any more at present. AFAIK: You won't be able to search for any changes made by OverDrive using the Finder ... I believe the changes occur in NVRAM using Open Firmware at Startup. Something like that ... You would test to see if it worked by using Disk Utility and see how much of the >128GB drive is there ... hopefully all of it, after you've restarted your system, after running OverDrive. OverDrive allegedly will also help partition the new drive, so your first partition is a 128GB one ... in case you lose the LBA48 property, and need to run OverDrive again ... avoiding writing anything past that 128GB limit ... that would most likely mess the partition up, or corrupt a file (my experience). Reread use of s Single Drive versus using 2 ... it recommends using overdrive for a second HD, since you have to be booted into the first one to run it. I'm thinking I'd clone my current OS X onto a spare 80GB, and use that as my OS X drive (never having to worry about the LBA48 limitation). Then I would run OverDrive and install my 500GB drive as a second HD ... partition it with 128GB as a first partition, and then the rest as I needed. I think that's how it might work best. My thoughts anyway. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
