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PowerBook G4 Titanium: 48bit addressing or not?

Project Alice

Project Alice

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Hello PPC user's,
I am trying to figure out if I can put a large drive in my TiBook. It is the fastest one they made, 1Ghz DVI. I know most Macs after 2002 support large drives, however I'm finding conflicting answers about this one.
So, can I slap in a 256GB SSD in this thing or do I need to keep it below 128GB? IMG_20190226_211201.jpg IMG_20190226_211214.jpg
 
Intech has a tool called the ATA High Cap Driver. It allows you to format drives over 128GB with a second partition, therefore recognizing the remainder of the drive.

Unfortunately their website seems to have gone away.
 
eyoungren said:
Intech has a tool called the ATA High Cap Driver. It allows you to format drives over 128GB with a second partition, therefore recognizing the remainder of the drive.

Unfortunately their website seems to have gone away.
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Oh I know, I've been after it for over a year now. The people who have it aren't posting it to the Macintosh garden.
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Hrududu said:
All TiBooks have an ATA-5 interface for the HDD which only supports up to 137GB drives.
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Low end mac states otherwise, that the DVI models (like mine) are ATA6. Again this is why I posted here, because I am seeing conflicting things all over. I may have to just stick a drive in there and find out, unless someone else has specifically done this.
 
Hrududu said:
All TiBooks have an ATA-5 interface for the HDD which only supports up to 137GB drives.
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that really blows, I thought the MDD cane out around the same time as the 1GHz model TI G4 ??? And THAT supported more than 128GB
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Project Alice said:
Oh I know, I've been after it for over a year now. The people who have it aren't posting it to the Macintosh garden.
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Low end mac states otherwise, that the DVI models (like mine) are ATA6. Again this is why I posted here, because I am seeing conflicting things all over. I may have to just stick a drive in there and find out, unless someone else has specifically done this.
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exactly, how can it be that the mighty MDD supports it and not the 1Ghz TI since they both are from 2002 - it would seem logical - I will try a 512GB MSATA M2.
 
I have hi-cap driver, but isn’t there a danger with it or something ? For instance, if I do a Pram reset or have to reset defaults to all in OF, won’t that wipe everything out ?? Now, what if I formatted the msata M2 drive on my Mac Pro ?
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Also, did not the later quicksilver models support LBA-48 ? And those were around the time of the last ti book.
 
So, actually the 1GHz TiBook DOES support large drives.
Mine has a 256GB SSD in it now.
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No third party driver used. Just stuck it in, partitioned it and cloned my previous installations onto it.
 
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Ok, this is good news - that means I can get a 512GB msata M2 and use it with Leopard and 128GB for OS 9.2.2 nice !
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Does your MSATA M2 allow boot to OS 9.2.2 ?
 
Macbookprodude said:
Ok, this is good news - that means I can get a 512GB msata M2 and use it with Leopard and 128GB for OS 9.2.2 nice !
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Does your MSATA M2 allow boot to OS 9.2.2 ?
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It does, yes. I stuck OS 9 and Tiger on a 60GB partition because I use Leopard mainly. All three operating systems work flawlessly on it.
 
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Project Alice said:
It does, yes. I stuck OS 9 and Tiger on a 60GB partition because I use Leopard mainly. All three operating systems work flawlessly on it.
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This is good news, now I can get a higher MSATA M2 drive for my 1GHZ Titanium. ALready since I got this, it has been an everyday machine. A beast of a laptop.. no real issues - it appears the system is working flawlessly. Also, I got a new top case for it - 50.00 bucks on ebay. The system is really nice. Its being used networked to my Mac Pro and 2015 Macbook Pro. Under webkit, 95 percent websites work.. I am not sure WHY 68mkla.org does not work under webkit.. where as os9lives.com does. Under tenfourfox it works perfectly. But, good to know we can use drives larger than 128GB.. So, I will get a 512GB MSATA M2(long stick) and just divide the partition into 2 - for OS 9.2.2 and Leopard, maybe I might try the rebuild of Snow Leopard on here thats still being worked on by those in the forum.
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Project Alice said:
So, actually the 1GHz TiBook DOES support large drives.
Mine has a 256GB SSD in it now.
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(Posted from mobile hence the photo instead of a screenshot..Faster that way)

No third party driver used. Just stuck it in, partitioned it and cloned my previous installations onto it.
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Does anyone know why when I try to load the pics under leopard webkit, the thing just crashes ? Is this a problem with Webkit ??? I tried with no java at all and it still crashes.. Seems like tenfourfox is going to be more reliable which is a damn shame because webkit is fast on this thing. Java just to load an "e"""" " picture imbeded in a message ?
 
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