Rare?

[California]

You said, you have a 130GB HDD. I guess you are referring to what you see in the OS. What did the label on the HDD itself say?
Also, what brand was the 80GB and what the +128GB Drive? (I have the feeling/experience that for some strange reason 160GB Seagate IDE drives cause problems, while 160GB drives by WD work. Of course, in both cases only 128GB will be seen. I know, though this might be an unfair generalisation.)

I recall getting a new 200GB Seagate PATA 3.5 HD to work in a slot load without partitioning, (same with a G4 Cube) but in the end neither one were stable.

A friend of mine with a Sawtooth got a new close out on a couple of 120 Seagates, it was quite a steal for Macs with the 128gb limit.

 

[Intell]

I recall getting a new 200GB Seagate PATA 3.5 HD to work in a slot load without partitioning, (same with a G4 Cube) but in the end neither one were stable.

A friend of mine with a Sawtooth got a new close out on a couple of 120 Seagates, it was quite a steal for Macs with the 128gb limit.

Large drive will work fine in a Cube running Leopard or Tiger once LBA-48 support has been enabled via OpenFirmware. OS 9 and 10.0-10.3 will work as long as they are in the partition that is within the first 128GB. They can be installed if they have a large drive driver installed. G3 Macs completely lack support for LBA-48, as do Sawtooths. Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, and early Quicksilvers have support for it, but it isn't enabled.

 

[Hrududu]

Here is an old friend that will allow use for drives over 128GB on older G3 and G4 machines.

 

[Cox Orange]

Here is an old friend that will allow use for drives over 128GB on older G3 and G4 machines.

Wasn't there a freeware linked to in an article over at lowendmac.com?


Edit: on OS 9 - Apple specified a 200GB max partition size being able to use by OS9 for Macs, that naturally support LBA-48, does that count after the Openfirmware-hack, too?

Also, if someone doesn't use the hack and wants to be sure that he gets one of the Quicksilvers that support over 128GB (some do, some not), I found a useful info some time ago in the "OS 9 lives forums". It is the logicboard number, to watch out for.

Power Mac G4 QuickSilver 733, 800, Dual 800, 867, 933, and Dual 1 GHz with logic board 820-1342-B (QS logic board 820-1276-A will NOT work and peak out at 128 GB).

Source: http://www.macos9lives.com/mac os 9 lives_003.htm

 

[Intell]

On OS 9 - Apple specified a 200GB max partition size being able to use by OS9 for Macs, that naturally support LBA-48, does that count after the Openfirmware-hack, too?

I've honestly never tried it. I've always stuck to less than 120GB partitions with OS 9. The larger partition sizes may be causing some of the instability as noted by California.