[geeks] [JuliaSacks930 at hotmail.com: [janglo] INFO4U: My Ipod Broke My Computer]

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:04:19PM -0500, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> i've just acquired a beige g3, so i've studied up on these a bit.
> 
> afaik the ide flaw is the same as the u5/u10 [0] - 48-bit addressing,
> limiting drives to 128G, though there's supposed to be a clever hack
> that involves partitioning larger drives. [1]

No, the problem is that the DMA transfers are too fast for the chip
to keep up and you get data corruption.

You could fix it with a third party driver under OS 8 and 9, OSX up until
10.2 included an automatic work around. It was dropped in 10.3.

Geoff.
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