Hi! On Monday, 20th of July 2009, Clark Martin wrote: > 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.
The OF patch doesn't load. It is not a driver, it is just a device property. The fact that it is so easily rewritten with a change to the nvram (Non-volatile random access memory) makes me even more angry that the AppleKeyLargo kernel extension (.kext, aka driver) doesn't make this happen all by itself. To me (*IMHO*) this is a fake limitation, as there really is no limitation to "New World" Power Macs before the Quicksilver 2002. Greetings, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
