Re: Recomendations for updates for Wall St.
At 11:43 PM -0600 12/3/03, Andre Ruegg wrote: on 12/3/03 5:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking to add in a FireWire/USB 1.1 PCMCIA combo card AND also add in a 802.11b card to a Wall St. running OS 9.2.2. I will be upgrading to X later so if these cards can be made to work with X that would be good. Any recommendations? The Wall St. fortunately has 2 card slots. I am also looking for a combo USB and Firewire PCMCIA card for a Wallstreet running 9.2.2. I tried a card from eBay listed here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3443775374 That card did NOT work. The card appeared on the desktop but it did not recognize Firewire or USB devices. The listing claims that it supports Mac OS 8.6 and up. I have since seen what appear to be the same card with different labelling stating that they require Mac OS X. I suspect that the USB 2 aspect of the card might be causing the problem as I believe USB 2 is only supported in X? Now I have to try to get my money back. :( I may end up with a straight Firewire PCMCIA card if I can't find a compatible combo card. I'm not sure about the Firewire part but I have had experience with the USB cards. OS 9 includes drivers for USB cards but they aren't installed unless the card is present during installation. You can go back and install the drivers from the OS 9 installer disk but doing an Add in the installer. I suspect that firewire is similar. USB 2 shouldn't be a problem AFAIK. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo Battery and DVD problems
The chair recognizes P. H. Adams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make it good... Second, The CD/DVD drive only reads DVD's no CD's are read, the drive spins up but no icon on the desktop. I've reloaded the latest extension for OS 9.1 with the same result. This is a common problem on the Pismos that shipped with problematic LG drives. You can check System Profiler or the drive itself for the letters LG, which indicate one of these drives. The PBs that shipped with Matsushita-manufactured drives are not reported to have the same problems. In any case, the only real solution is to replace it. There are replacement drives offered by MCE Tech and if you look around on eBay, you can usually find several there as well. I probably should have sent mine to Apple for replacement as I've got AppleCare, but I didn't want to give the laptop up for several days. Also, I've heard that Apple is sometimes unwilling to admit this problem, and has been known to ship the 'Books back with yet another LG drive, which soon exhibits the same problems. Yeah. Happened to me twice. The first time, I just brought it in and they replaced it with another LG drive. Same thing happened a few months later, just as my Applecare was about to run out. Apple wanted me to bring in my whole system so they could see if it was something besides the drive. Bah. I just went on Ebay and got a 3rd party CD-R/DVD-ROM drive and dropped it into the tray from the old drive. After I found the burner software update, everything worked great. Plus, now I can play the LOTR Extended Editions. Yay! -- Joe Crow I am a scientist, I seek to understand me - Guided By Voices -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Fwd: Partition my drive or not...
Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros and cons? If you partition you drive to keep 9 on a separate partition, should you need to do a clean OS X install, you won't have to re-install 9. Plus, it makes troubleshooting easier since the folders from OS 9 are not mixed up with those from OS X. I personally wouldn't do it. It is possible to do an archive and install instead of a completely clean install with the OS X installer. This will leave your user data and any other installations in place on your drive and not clobber them upon install. There shouldn't be a need to do a complete clean install unless you wipe the drive and then you'll be needing a backup anyway. If you feel the need to partition I would only do a small OS 9 partition in addition to the OS X partition. Every time I partition a drive for personal use in hopes of more efficient organization I eventually run out of space on one partition or another. Depends on your usage, of course... I always partition my drives because this allows for My 60GB TiBook drive has 4 partitions, roughly one for the System, one for Applications and stuff, and two for video work (which can then be kept defragmented, since I can erase them whenever I need) - for some people, this might be used for a large iTunes library, for example. Keeping most of my applications in a separate partition has saved me huge amounts of time when I recently installed Panther; moreover, I had cloned my Jaguar system to one the video partitions, which allowed me a safety net in case something wrong happened (which it didn't). With this setup I was able too clean install panther with minimum hassle. It would have been a lot more painful if I had a nonpartitioned drive. Luis -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Any inexpensive external DVD burners/ copiers for Mac?
I know the general answer is yes, But are there any of those DVD burners for just a bit over $125 like I see for wintel units all the time? Especially one that will work in OS 9 as well as OS X? (So I could use it on my wallstreet or my G4 tower) I'm also interested in DVD copying software I see for wintel environment too. I sure would like to make some spare copies of my Lord of the Rings Extended versions -- they get played an awful lot, and I hate it when they get scratched and start skipping and slowing down and such.. Thanks for any advice! Sid B -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Any inexpensive external DVD burners/ copiers for Mac?
On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 03:08 AM, Sid Barras wrote: I know the general answer is yes, But are there any of those DVD burners for just a bit over $125 like I see for wintel units all the time? Especially one that will work in OS 9 as well as OS X? (So I could use it on my wallstreet or my G4 tower) Actually, the ones I see at that price are all internal units, which means you'll need to spring for a firewire external case (and a firewire card for your Wallstreet), but Toast ought to recognize most if not all of them...check on Roxio's web site. -- Wherever you go, there you are. - B. Banzai, Ph.D. Bruce Johnson -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 06:22 AM, Gary D. Adams wrote: I always partition, too, and there are several reasons. First, to allow booting from another partition for diagnostics (of course, if the hd physically goes out, that's not worth much). Second, and more importantly, because I've always heard that partitioning a large drive eliminates wasted space--since the allocation block size is dependent upon the size of the volume... larger volumes get larger allocation blocks. http://www.themacintoshguy.com/MacTips/archive/tip10.shtml Isn't the situation the same in X? No, nor has it been the situation for a long time. This is the whole point of the HFS+ file system (which both OS 8.1-9.2 and OSX use as their native filesystem) is that it eliminates that 65K file limit and the variable block size of the old HFS filesystem. (which is what that tip talks about). There's an Apple KB article about it where all the gory details are exposed. No modern system (mac, pc, unix) needs to be partitioned for that purpose. -- Wherever you go, there you are. - B. Banzai, Ph.D. Bruce Johnson -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported
I have a USB2 I/O Magic 48x16x48 External CD-Rewritable Drive #ICDRW4848EU which is not supported for Macintosh by the manufacturer. IS there any software out there to use this drive with my Pismo? Tom -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo Battery and DVD problems
on 04/12/2003 10:47, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just went on Ebay and got a 3rd party CD-R/DVD-ROM drive and dropped it into the tray from the old drive. After I found the burner software update, everything worked great. Plus, now I can play the LOTR Extended Editions. Yay! -- Joe Crow This is definitely the way to go. For lots of feedback on the different 3rd party Combo drives that people have used successfully with the Pismo, check the web site xlr8yourmac.com under Drive Compatibility Database. Personally, I have successfully used 2 different Combos in my Pismo with both 9 and Jaguar: a 24x10x24x8x Samsung SN-324B and a 24x24x24x8x Sony CRX830E. Both work perfectly with Toast 5.2 and, after modifying the iTunes plugin, are compatible with it too. They are bootable: the Samsung only when holding down the ALT/Option key at startup, and the Sony when holding down the ALT/Option key or selecting the disk from the Startup Disk control panel. They are not bootable holding down the C key, because they are set to Slave (they show up as device 1 in Apple System Profiler) and not Master. Check the xlr8yourmac web site for these things if you want, because some Combo drives offer different things: - the original Pismo DVD faceplate (or bezel) fits onto the new Combo: people have had some success here with Matshita/Panasonic combo drives, if their original Pismo DVD was a Matshita - the Combo is or can be set to Master: some drives ship this way from the factory (people have mentioned Acer drives, which use, IIRC, Matshita/Panasonic); others have reported switches on the drive that let you switch it to Master - iTunes/Disk Burner compatibility: many Combo drives are compatible right out of the box; almost all drives can be made compatible: in 9 by using a modified Authoring Support exension, in Jaguar by using a freeware app called Patchburn Prices have dropped a lot and you can now find fast Combos (burn CDs at 24x) for less than $100 either on ebay or from an online store. Fire up Google and have a look. Good luck. Chris -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported
Have you tried Toast. It recognizes and works with my Sony DRX 500 which is not supported for Mac. Ralph On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 09:16 AM, Tom Ethen wrote: I have a USB2 I/O Magic 48x16x48 External CD-Rewritable Drive #ICDRW4848EU which is not supported for Macintosh by the manufacturer. IS there any software out there to use this drive with my Pismo? Tom -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported
My Best guess is Toast Titanium The Dr On 4-Dec-03, at 9:16 AM, Tom Ethen wrote: I have a USB2 I/O Magic 48x16x48 External CD-Rewritable Drive #ICDRW4848EU which is not supported for Macintosh by the manufacturer. IS there any software out there to use this drive with my Pismo? Tom -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
I know the 65k limit was lifted. That was not the point of including the link. The point was how allocation blocks are set. Alsoft's Ask Al had this information, which would tend to indicate that partitioning a large drive reduces the wasted space--a 1k file will use one allocation block, if that block is 8k or 4k. Or am I missing something here? With Mac OS 9.0, HFS Plus disks are initialized with only two allocation block sizes. Those disks less than or equal to 256 MB have .5 K allocation blocks while all other disks have 4 K allocation blocks. This change was made to bring the rules in line with the rules then expected for Mac OS X. As it turns out, Mac OS X will have slightly different rules and Mac OS 9.1 was updated to reflect them. It adds a larger allocation block size for larger HFS Plus disks. Disks larger than 220 GB have 8 K allocation blocks. This change was made for extremely large disks to reduce the number of allocation blocks. This helps reduce the amount of time it takes to find free blocks among such a large number of allocation blocks. Gary From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/04 Thu AM 08:53:59 EST To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partition my drive or not... On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 06:22 AM, Gary D. Adams wrote: I always partition, too, and there are several reasons. First, to allow booting from another partition for diagnostics (of course, if the hd physically goes out, that's not worth much). Second, and more importantly, because I've always heard that partitioning a large drive eliminates wasted space--since the allocation block size is dependent upon the size of the volume... larger volumes get larger allocation blocks. http://www.themacintoshguy.com/MacTips/archive/tip10.shtml Isn't the situation the same in X? No, nor has it been the situation for a long time. This is the whole point of the HFS+ file system (which both OS 8.1-9.2 and OSX use as their native filesystem) is that it eliminates that 65K file limit and the variable block size of the old HFS filesystem. (which is what that tip talks about). There's an Apple KB article about it where all the gory details are exposed. No modern system (mac, pc, unix) needs to be partitioned for that purpose. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
On 04/12/03 12:07, Harry D. Corsover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - On 12/4/03 6:20 AM MDT (-0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: After playing with partitions on my desktop at home and my old iBook, I found no speed or safety benefits. When I bought my new 15 alBook I left it unpartitioned. However, should disaster strike, I have the drive cloned to an external drive I keep at home and that drive has been cloned to a DVD that I carry in my briefcase. Having said that, I've come to the decision that being prepared provides two benefits - first, should disaster strike I'll be ready and second, keeps the computer gods from sending disaster in the first place. Going back four PowerBooks, I haven't experienced a single drive failure or data loss. david David, My 15AlBook should arrive today. It has an 80GB drive. I also have a 200 MB FireWire 800 drive on order from LaCie. My plan is not to mess with partitions (for the same reasons you mention) and to clone the drive to the external. I've (yes, it's true!) never even burned a CD, let alone a DVD. Unless I'm mistaken, you must have very little on your AlBook drive if you can clone it to a DVD. How much data do they hold? A writable DVD usually holds around 4.7GB. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA Usual disclaimers apply *** -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
On 4 Dec 2003, at 11:20, Luis Sequeira wrote: Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros and cons? If you partition you drive to keep 9 on a separate partition, should you need to do a clean OS X install, you won't have to re-install 9. Plus, it makes troubleshooting easier since the folders from OS 9 are not mixed up with those from OS X. I personally wouldn't do it. It is possible to do an archive and install instead of a completely clean install with the OS X installer. This will leave your user data and any other installations in place on your drive and not clobber them upon install. There shouldn't be a need to do a complete clean install unless you wipe the drive and then you'll be needing a backup anyway. If you feel the need to partition I would only do a small OS 9 partition in addition to the OS X partition. Every time I partition a drive for personal use in hopes of more efficient organization I eventually run out of space on one partition or another. Depends on your usage, of course... I always partition my drives because this allows for My 60GB TiBook drive has 4 partitions, roughly one for the System, one for Applications and stuff, and two for video work (which can then be kept defragmented, since I can erase them whenever I need) - for some people, this might be used for a large iTunes library, for example. Keeping most of my applications in a separate partition has saved me huge amounts of time when I recently installed Panther; moreover, I had cloned my Jaguar system to one the video partitions, which allowed me a safety net in case something wrong happened (which it didn't). With this setup I was able too clean install panther with minimum hassle. It would have been a lot more painful if I had a nonpartitioned drive. Luis -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- I quite honestly think that it easier and simpler to use one partition, I have 1 on my Dual-USB (20GB) iBook, using Panther, and for classic I logged into the root user and put the classic folder in the System directory under a folder named classic- Macintosh HD System Classic System Folder Applications I think it is simpler and less clumsy this way. David. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
David George Hogg wrote: I quite honestly think that it easier and simpler to use one partition, I have 1 on my Dual-USB (20GB) iBook, using Panther, and for classic I logged into the root user and put the classic folder in the System directory under a folder named classic- Macintosh HD System Classic System Folder Applications I think it is simpler and less clumsy this way. David. Oy! A man who like to play with fireApple updaters do not always honor changes made to the System folder hierarchy. It's entirely possible some system upgrade in the future will wipe that thing out. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
Yeah, well it is more organised and working just now for booting into and running classic from. David. ## AMD AthlonXP 1700+, 256mb, 120GB - Win 2K3 Apple iBook G3 700MHz, 256mb, 20GB, OS X Panther ## Mac OS X - The power of UNIX - The beauty of Apple ## -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Johnson Sent: 04 December 2003 18:29 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Partition my drive or not... David George Hogg wrote: I quite honestly think that it easier and simpler to use one partition, I have 1 on my Dual-USB (20GB) iBook, using Panther, and for classic I logged into the root user and put the classic folder in the System directory under a folder named classic- Macintosh HD System Classic System Folder Applications I think it is simpler and less clumsy this way. David. Oy! A man who like to play with fireApple updaters do not always honor changes made to the System folder hierarchy. It's entirely possible some system upgrade in the future will wipe that thing out. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Hard Drive questions
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 04/12/03 00:48, DPrice at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How important is the size of the data buffer? I see both 2mb and 8mb on various models I am interested in. And how much faster is 5400 to 4200 on Pismo 400? Would the 5400 spin louder than the 4200? Thanks. The more memory in the buffer, then the least trips to the disk the system has to do. It's hard to quantify, though. A 5400 drive will provide significant speed increase over a 4200, even on a Pismo 400. The most recent drives that are faster are usually quieter than older, slower drives... Any comments/thoughts on increased power requirments (i.e. decreased battery life) or heat issues with the faster drive(s)? -- Non Illegitimi Carborundum -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
Can you actually boot into OS 9? On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, David George Hogg wrote: Yeah, well it is more organised and working just now for booting into and running classic from. David. ## AMD AthlonXP 1700+, 256mb, 120GB - Win 2K3 Apple iBook G3 700MHz, 256mb, 20GB, OS X Panther ## Mac OS X - The power of UNIX - The beauty of Apple ## -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Johnson Sent: 04 December 2003 18:29 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Partition my drive or not... David George Hogg wrote: I quite honestly think that it easier and simpler to use one partition, I have 1 on my Dual-USB (20GB) iBook, using Panther, and for classic I logged into the root user and put the classic folder in the System directory under a folder named classic- Macintosh HD System Classic System Folder Applications I think it is simpler and less clumsy this way. David. Oy! A man who like to play with fireApple updaters do not always honor changes made to the System folder hierarchy. It's entirely possible some system upgrade in the future will wipe that thing out. -- Non Illegitimi Carborundum -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Partition my drive or not...
On 12/4/03 12:07 PM, Harry D. Corsover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - On 12/4/03 6:20 AM MDT (-0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: After playing with partitions on my desktop at home and my old iBook, I found no speed or safety benefits. When I bought my new 15 alBook I left it unpartitioned. However, should disaster strike, I have the drive cloned to an external drive I keep at home and that drive has been cloned to a DVD that I carry in my briefcase. Having said that, I've come to the decision that being prepared provides two benefits - first, should disaster strike I'll be ready and second, keeps the computer gods from sending disaster in the first place. Going back four PowerBooks, I haven't experienced a single drive failure or data loss. david David, My 15AlBook should arrive today. It has an 80GB drive. I also have a 200 MB FireWire 800 drive on order from LaCie. My plan is not to mess with partitions (for the same reasons you mention) and to clone the drive to the external. I've (yes, it's true!) never even burned a CD, let alone a DVD. Unless I'm mistaken, you must have very little on your AlBook drive if you can clone it to a DVD. How much data do they hold? A DVD holds about 4.5 gig - more than enough to store my system and most important applications/data. I have to admit my DVD clone doesn't contain all my applications or data but my 'short' note was getting very long so I didn't go into the details of how/what I clone to DVD or my scheme for backing up my data on a weekly/daily basis. I'm using about 26g of my drive all told and I'm still slowly moving in. This is the first time I've owned a notebook that has such a big hard drive that I don't have to think about what I need and what has to be left behind. david -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Hard Drive questions
At 11:02 -0800 4/12/03, Frank P. Eigler wrote: Any comments/thoughts on increased power requirments (i.e. decreased battery life) or heat issues with the faster drive(s)? I put a 7200 rpm 60GB Hitachi drive into my TiBook 800. No great impact on power consumption and a better OS X experience. The only thing that gets my book hot is intensive processor activity. -- With best wishes, Roger Shufflebottom -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported
I have a Sony USB2 than works with Toast also, but the I/O Magic drive can not be seen by Toast. Tom on 12/4/03 9:24, Ralph Plumb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried Toast. It recognizes and works with my Sony DRX 500 which is not supported for Mac. Ralph -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: External firewire DVD burners with Powerbook
I have a Pioneer DVR-105 that I put in a nameless firewire box I got from OWC. It works with my G4-powerbook, cube, and works on the Beige G3 using Toast. I don't know what you want to burn, but if you intend to do CDs, your $50 Lite-On Cd burner is going to be a whole lot faster than your DVD burner or your internal burner. Applecare gave me a free combo drive when my old drive crapped out. It works great but it is really slow. Oops--i just noted that Kyle noted you can't use iDVD on an external driveI haven't tried it so I don't know. I got my DVD for backups (an idea that is now virtually obsolete). I make video CDs for video stuff. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Recomendations for updates for Wall St.
Clark wrote: I'm not sure about the Firewire part but I have had experience with the USB cards. OS 9 includes drivers for USB cards but they aren't installed unless the card is present during installation. I am not sure that what Clark says is true in all cases, but I do know, that if you want to use a network USB printer set up on another computer, you must download the USB Printer sharing extension from Apple Tech support because there is no way to get the installer to put it in a machine with no USB port. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported
On Dec 4, 2003, at 8:39 AM, G-Books wrote: Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:16:30 -0600 Subject: Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported From: Tom Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a USB2 I/O Magic 48x16x48 External CD-Rewritable Drive #ICDRW4848EU which is not supported for Macintosh by the manufacturer. IS there any software out there to use this drive with my Pismo? Tom What OS are you using? The Apple authoring support documents can be modifed rather easily to support Finder disc burning and iTunes burning. Unless of course you are using Panther - if so then you're stuck with Toast until someone comes up with a solution. Again I recommend that people write to Apple and complain about this. --- JSH TiBook -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported
MacBidouille has a hack that allows unsupported drives to work with iTunes. http://www.hardmac.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2003-11-29#1140 Gary On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 09:24 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote: On Dec 4, 2003, at 8:39 AM, G-Books wrote: Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:16:30 -0600 Subject: Re: CD-Rewritable Drive not supported From: Tom Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a USB2 I/O Magic 48x16x48 External CD-Rewritable Drive #ICDRW4848EU which is not supported for Macintosh by the manufacturer. IS there any software out there to use this drive with my Pismo? Tom What OS are you using? The Apple authoring support documents can be modifed rather easily to support Finder disc burning and iTunes burning. Unless of course you are using Panther - if so then you're stuck with Toast until someone comes up with a solution. Again I recommend that people write to Apple and complain about this. --- JSH TiBook -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
