I would like to ask: it wouldn't be much more simple nowadays to buy a
PCI-ATA card and attach the 128GB HD to it?
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On 4/6/11 6:43 PM, Paul Stamsen at paterfami...@gmail.com wrote:
Previously, at 8:22 PM +0200 4/6/11, as Mac User #330250 so eloquently
wrote:
(snip)
The chief danger in that script is that if you do an OF reset you
will lose access to the part of the drive above 128Gb until you
re-activate the script.
Sorry, I missed that. How again?
No danger if the first partition is the boot partition and is limited to the
size if 128 GB. Just don't use Disk Utility on it and you cannot do any harm
to the other partitions that won't be visible until you've reset the OF hack
and stored it in NVRAM again.
If you keep your current 128Gb partition that will
still be available, just any new partition you create will not be
available.
Exactly!
You might want to create a small unused partition, one that
spans the transition point then create t third partition that uses the
remainder of the drive. The transition partition insures that no part
of the third partition is available to the OS if the OF patch is missing.
Worth thinking about, yes. If your fist partition IS exactly the 128 GB
limit,
you don't need this though.
If part of it was accessible there is the possibility of it being
corrupted.
Yes. In such a case: avoid using this partition until the OF hack is
restored.
The danger is of course that OS utilities such as spotlight will write some
data to the disk without you recognizing it. It will propably span over to
the
first partition and corrupt its data. DANGEROUS!
It's hard to say what the OS or any repair tools might do to a
disk that is only partly visible, it may attempt to repair the problem.
Yes.
Thanks,
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