Mac User #330250 wrote: > Hello PeterH! > Hi everyone! > > On Sunday, 19th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: >> Practically, is has been possible to add the required LBA48 >> properties to the Open Firmware facility for quite a number of G4 >> Macs, and possibly also for ALL "New World" Macs, of which the very >> first was the B&W G3. >> >> The LBA48 properties are free, and work on any supported MacOS X. > > Thanks! That worked. > So in the end the KeyLargo driver works anyway, but checks the Open Firmware > properties and refuses to support LBA-48 if such is not found. Nice. > I would have thought that Apple made the driver (AppleKeyLargo.kext) realize > that EVERY KeyLargo ATA-5 and ATA-3 bus supports this and thus would activate > it, with or without an Open Firmware device property.
The OS X driver doesn't load until later. The OF patch loads before the HD is accessed. What would happen if, for example, AppleKeyLargo.kext was stored above 128Gb. Or any other file that needs to load before that driver. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
