" Mike,
Found this in the MacOS X 10.2 technote.
" ATA
The Apple's support for connected ATA devices.

* Large ATA hard drives (over 137 GB - 48-bit LBA addressing) are now supported on systems with large ATA drive support in the boot ROM. All changes are documented in the relevant header files in IOATAFamily.

Now, I'm not really sure which models have this support in the boot ROM, but perhaps people with access to large ATA drives would be willing to try a few different models.

The technote URL is here.
Mike "

From the boot rom comment, I wonder if this refers to 2002 Macs or the latest G4 towers. If anyone tries a large (160GB maxtor, etc.) drive with OS X 10.2 let me know your Mac model, drive used and what controller you're using. (onboard IDE or PCI IDE card - Acard ATA/133 card I thought had a driver update for OS X 10.1.x to enable large drive support, but I could be wrong. Intech's later HD Speedtools drivers adds large IDE drive support for onboard IDE Macs, but isn't OS X compatible.)

" Mike,
I'm glad to see I'm not alone. I just bought an open box 22" cinema display that I am using w/ a G4 450 agp radeon original mac retail model (soon to be a radeon 8500) with an apple adc/dvi adaptor, 10.2, and when I tried switching resolutions via menu bar my screen went black and the power light went into strobe mode. This continued through a restart. I freaked my new monitor was black. Not being sure how 10.2 worked i tried an old os9 standby and restarted with the shift key down and low and behold 10.2 booted in to "safe" mode, I never heard of this but it reset my monitor and everything has been fine since. I have not tried switching resolutions again yet.
On a side note another 10.2 thing I haven't seen mentioned is that when an app becomes unresponsive, as IE often does, clicking on its dock icon already shows force quit instead of quit w/o having to hold down the option key as before.
Cheers,
Todd "

The problem I saw immediately after the 10.2 upgrade (easily repeatable) is that after switching resolutions a few times (even in the OS X menu bar with no apps running, although it happens also in games that switch modes) - the Cinema Display (DVI model) goes black (no video). The problem appeared repeatedly although sometimes it would switch a couple of times ok, but eventually would black screen. Rebooting didn't help (I did not boot with shift key down though) - each time I fixed the problem by shutting down and disconnecting and reconnecting power to the display. (It's as if after switching modes at times the refresh rate is being set too high for the display perhaps.)
This never happened in OS 9.2.2 or in 10.1.5, but immediately showed up after the 10.2 upgrade. I've written a programmer at Apple but have not received a response yet.

"Mike,
As I reported some days ago my Sony 195A1 didn't work properly with Mac OS 10.2. Anyway I modified the SonyCDR.device-plugin with success! Apple system profiler now reports the drive as "Fully Supported" I have with success burned in iTunes, Diskcopy, Backup and Finder.
The modified file is attached!
/Thomas J"

Download his modified Sony Plugin file here.

NOTE: As with all modified files - these are provided "as-is" with no warranty or support. (If you're not comfortable using the Terminal in OS X, to avoid permissions issues in OS X you may want to boot into OS 9 to replace the OS X file.)

" I have an AsanteFast 10/100 Fast Ethernet (PCI) Adapter model 690 that was working under 10.1.5. It stopped working after 10.2 was installed and actually crashed my machine. Asante just released updated drivers and everything works great!
Darryl Payne
Site Developer
Stone Oak Web Design "

I checked their main web site and found this OS X 10.2 driver link noted on the front page.
(I'll add this info to the previous page on OS X compatible PCI network card reports.)

"For UMAX 6400 and 6450 (1394) Firewire scanner owners there is a WORKING beta driver on their UK website that is compatible with 10.1.5 and above. The only limitation thus far is that the front buttons on the scanner are not functioning, small issue though. I have verified that the driver is not compatible with 10.2 as the Vista Scan application quits unexpectedly shortly after launch. The driver is extremely late beta as I have scanned numerous documents, used the GUI's ability to import them into Photoshop and Entourage and it worked without a hitch. Vistascan also has the ability to export graphics formats accordingly i.e. Jpeg for email etc., it and seems very stable. After a year of waiting for a 10.1.5 compatible version I wonder how long it will be before a 10.2 compatible version is released.
Link: http://www.umax.co.uk/support/default.htm
Love the site keep up the good work
Thanks, Jason"

Multi-Format Card Reader Reports
• USB Dazzle DM-8400 6-in-1 Reader used w/G4 AGP (OS X)
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  (modified plugin file for 10.2 in the FAQ here)
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