Tried again, deleted cache files, but drive won't startup.
(However, this test might be flawed. Intechusa.com has a solution and created a driver for high-capacity drives. They document that the startup volume must still be completely contained within the first 128GB of the startup drive. The Intech driver was never used, though. The first time I encountered the problems here and solved it by the firewire trick, the startup was within the first 128Gb. On this test, however, it was in the last 128GB. But, this drive was also connected to ATA card that supports 128GB+ drives. Also, I have not tried starting this drive on firewire yet.)
These are files that were deleted:
System/Library/Caches
Library/Caches
System/Library/Extensions.mkext
System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
Are these the correct files to delete (yes?)?
Any other ideas why starting up on Firewire blesses the drive so it will subsequently startup on the ATA card?
I think my next test is to try this again, but put the startup volume in the first 128GB of the hard drive. But, any other ideas I might try now more quickly?
Ultimately, I require a solution so that this will work flawlessly without requiring use of the firewire trick...
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