Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-25 Thread Mac User #330250
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,

large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! I would like to know if the limit of the pre-Quicksilver 2002 Power Macs is a hard limit or whether it can be managed to access beyond this barrier. I have a Quicksilver 2001, the 733 MHz model with an OWC Mercury Extreme G4 CPU Upgrade to 1,467 MHz and 1.5 GB of RAM. This doesn't look so

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
Search the G3-G5 list for LBA48 and you'll see several good discussions. Also get the free Mactracker from: http://www.mactracker.ca/ And it will show you your G4 does have the limitation. It can be overcome with an Open Firmware update, or an IDE PCI controller card. You might also

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread PeterH
On Jul 19, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: I would like to know if the limit of the pre-Quicksilver 2002 Power Macs is a hard limit or whether it can be managed to access beyond this barrier. Officially, the pre-QS 2002 ROM DOES NOT SUPPORT LBA48. Practically, is has been

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 19, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: It can be overcome with an Open Firmware update, or an IDE PCI controller card. Meant to add, I recently chose to buy a Firmtek Seritek SATA PCI card and 1TB SATA Seagate HD from OWC to solve the issue in my Digital Audio Dual 533.

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-19 Thread Clark Martin
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