Re: Server upgrade - 128G disk limit!

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Donald Lee
<MacPPC2%caution.icompute.com@localhost> wrote:
> I bought 2 160G drives, and 1 320G drive, and when I started working with
> them realized that the G4 has a 128G limit on drives, because the on-board
> controller does not support LBA48.  (Bummer!) (G4 AGP graphics)

This might be rather unhelpful since I haven't tried to boot NetBSD on
a Mac in a really long time now, but:

Didn't Apple have firmware updates for some machines so they could use
bigger drives? You might check that.

Using 3rd party disk controllers caused me big problems with booting.
Basically, it wouldn't boot off of them because OFW didn't like the
card. So I had to use a small disk to boot from and then NetBSD could
handle the controller once the kernel found it. There might be some
controllers you can buy that play more friendly with Mac. I remember
finding one but it wasn't cheap. But that was a while back.

Anyway. I stopped using Macs. Way too painful to get working. This
coming from someone who has booted NetBSD on a Dreamcast, NSLU2, and
Cobalt machines back before there was a restore CD :)

Andy