Re: USB2 802.11g adapter

[Adam Thayer]

You can't use any model that supports 802.11g and put it into monitor  
mode currently. If you want a good USB wireless sniffer device, try  
hunting down an old DWL-122 USB 802.11b. They tend to be a bit more  
expensive (30$), but are worth it.


On Jul 20, 2005, at 12:14 AM, Brian McEwen wrote:




Ok, you can find some models of USB2 802.1g adapter for $5-20 now  
after rebates.


I'm tempted as I believe this would allow me to do more powerful  
netstumbling, should I need to do so.  Since the Airport Extreme in  
my 12" PB can't be put into the most useful monitoring modes for  
stumbling.


The one that's available now ($5) is a Hawking Technology HWU54G,  
which uses the Zydas zd1211 Chipset.  There are Linux drivers on  
sourceforge for this chipset, but it doesn't look like there's any  
OS X activity.


KisMac look like the best stumbler (only?).  It's documentation  
says it supports chipsets:

*  Apple Airport
* Lucent Hermes I & II (Orinoco 2 and 11MBit)
* Intersil Prism 2, 2.5, 3 in PCMCIA and USB devices
* Cisco Aironet (with older 4.xx firmware)
* Intersil PrismGT (with newest SVN version)


Can anyone suggest models of USB2 802.1b/g adapters that are cheap,  
and use one of these chipsets?


Thanks,

Brian




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Re: malware question

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Well, I think what we need to remember is that our key vulnerabilities are
in available services. Those that don't run services are pretty much OK.
However, each service is only as secure as the developers make it
(apache/sshd have had problems in the past), and Apple does lag behind by
about a week on these issues. This provides an opening for infection,
however, there are so many 'if's that the attack vector is nearly worthless
for a variety of reasons (finding PPC/Darwin instead of Linux servers, etc).

-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Johnson
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 4:33 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: Re: malware question


On Jun 3, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Brian wrote:

> I'm a bit late to the frey on this issue (by more than 6 months)  
> but just learned of a malware program out there called "opener"  
> that supposedly was talked about in October (saw an older article  
> in macintouch about it).

Sigh. 'opener' was never 'in the wild'. Installation requires  
physical access to the mac in question as an Admin User.

If you have that, you don't need 'opener'. It allows you to take over  
a machine you already own...oh, scy...

It's like the Honor System Virus, here listed in its entire, awsum  
h4X0r p0w3r:

"  THE NEW "HONOR SYSTEM" VIRUS:

   This virus works on the honor system.

   Please forward this message to everyone you know, then delete  
all the
   files on your hard disk.

   Thank you for your cooperation."


It was a non-starter then, and it's a non-starter now. If 'opener' is  
the best the skriptkiddies  can do to OS X, we're sitting pretty.

>   IS this little number still out there?  have any others popped up  
> since then?

AFAICT only one piece of malware ever has been released into the wild  
for OS X, a trojan posing as a 'free beta of Office 2004' that was  
alleged to have been circulated on some P2P nets.

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Re: Praise for Dual-USB IBOOK

[Adam Thayer]

Here is the weird thing... I have seen the key problem (which exists on
pretty much every Apple laptop between 1999 through the last couple years),
I have seen an airport antenna sliced, but haven't seen the video chip
unseating. Of course, it seems like the flaw for the video chip occurred in
rev B iceBooks and later. The very annoying thing about the iBook G3 line is
that every single rev has some sort of major design flaw, but they never
shared the same one very often. I personally don't count the key issue as a
major flaw, because I have seen one key break (which was replaced for free),
which was on a 3-4 year old iceBook with literally more use than many home
desktop machines (4-5 hours a day usage).

-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:14 AM
To: G-Books
Subject: Re: Praise for Dual-USB IBOOK

I thought that model sucked.  Lousy video chip engineering wherein the chip
unseats, horrible hinge design constantly slicing ground, power and video
cables inside, cheap keyboard prone to breaking keys, and on and on.  I know
the sycophants will flame me but...whatever.

> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:26:08 -0400
> Subject: Praise for Dual-USB IBOOK
> From: bobgir2004 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Folks at MyMac.com had nice things to say about the G3 Dual-USB iBook,
> noting that...
> 
> ...when it comes to balancing performance, looks, and price, my vote goes
to
> the dual-USB G3 iBook, perhaps the first Mac portable to bring all the
joys
> of mobile computing to the masses without having to make any serious
> compromises.
> 
> You can read the full article at:
> 
> http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=2015


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Re: Anyone edit video on their powerbook?

[Adam Thayer]

Heck, I did a little work on a /Lombard/ in Final Cut. Of course I had a
more powerful render machine, and simply used lo-res footage (320x240 MJPEG)
for the editing process, and reattached to the clean footage on the render
machine for the final render. I wasn't using the Xi, although the technique
will definitely be useful if you find regular performance a little lacking.

Just make sure the captured footage and the downsampled footage are of the
exact same length and everything will go smoothly. When you need to render
the final result you simply disconnect from your downsampled footage and
reconnect to the original footage and let er rip. 

Editing on the Lombard with the lo-res footage was just fine, even on 320MB
of RAM. Of course I had to wait through renders for every little change in
the footage... but that was because I wasn't on a G4. Your system will run
quite nicely on 512MB, although 1GB is probably a good idea if you are going
to be running through raw footage in the editor.

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From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Johnson
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:55 AM
To: G-Books
Subject: Re: Anyone edit video on their powerbook?


On May 20, 2005, at 7:06 AM, tamara buffalo wrote:

> I have a 867 and I will be putting in a gig of ram soon. I am just 
> using iMovie now but as soon as I get my Canon Optura Xi I will be 
> moving up to final cut. Anyone using the Xi and final cut with their 
> powerbooks?
>
> I am sure you guys have fancier PB but my baby works great and I cant 
> afford to upgrade right now. Sucks how long encoding and rendering 
> takes tho. hopefully the ram will help that some right? I have 512  
> twelve in right now.
>
> Also I can't find a gig stick for my PB do they make them? Right now 
> I'm looking at two 512 sticks.
>

I don't think so. At least Data Memory Systems doesn't sell it (my 
favorite RAM supplier) The 867 seems to be the last 15" PB to take 
PC133 SD_RAM SO-DIMMS, and DMS lists up to 512Mb; the 867 12" 
powerbook, and later 15" ones take PC2100 DDR SO-DIMMS.

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Re: Opinion wanted

[Adam Thayer]

Well, the part will be hard to find on places like eBay, and pbparts.com
doesn't even have anything that new listed yet. They have the 800Mhz logic
board for about 650$, which means that the price being quoted by Apple is
pretty close to what the part would cost through repair shops that will sell
you the part by itself. My guess is that the cost without labor would be
around 700$ for your particular model.

Buying a used/refurbished one would cost about 800-900$, making it more
expensive than Apple's repairs.

All-in-all, you are in the worst possible position. The unit is too new to
even reliably get parts for without scrapping another unit with a dead
screen or something. 

Unfortunately, I only have three suggestions:

1) Pay Apple to get it to be repaired, since it will be cheaper than buying
a used/new replacement.

2) Buy a used replacement unit, or a refurbished unit. A refurb 1.2Ghz iBook
is 800$ from Apple right now (I just checked their website).

3) Don't get her another laptop for awhile, and then pick option #2. Rather
harsh, but an option.

I am sorry for your situation, as it quite honestly is grim, since the cost
to get the parts is quite high. I have been in that boat before, dropping a
Lombard that I had sunk 800$ into over a period of 8 months to have it
dropped and the screen crack (while going to college on a shoestring
budget!). 

I hope for the best in your situation.

- Adam

-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent
Daudelin
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:55 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: Opinion wanted

I'd like to have opinions on what I should do with my daughter's iBook.

Back in September 2004, I purchased a 12", 1GHz iBook for my daughter. All
was well and she was very happy.

About a month ago, she called me and said that her iBook was suddenly acting
strangely. I went over and noticed that the display would only show
vertical, narrow colored lines on a black background. I think I posted to
the list about what the problem could be.

In anycase, I asked her what happened and she said "nothing". I was a little
suspicious because after having used a PowerBook for more than 3 years, I
know that things cannot get wrong all of a sudden for no reason.

I took the iBook, still under warranty, to the closest Apple store. The
genius looked at it and said there was obviously something wrong with the
main logic board and said they would have to send it to the Apple's repair
facility.

3 days later, I've got an email from the Apple repair facility asking me to
call them because they had discovered a problem. I knew that this wouldn't
be good so I called my daughter immediately and told her what was happening
and that before calling Apple, I wanted to have the truth. Sure enough,
something wrong happened. She actually spilled water over the keyboard and
since she didn't know what to do and didn't want to tell me, you can imagine
the consequences.

So, I called Apple and they confirmed what I had just found out. There was
still liquid residues on the motherboard and this had shorted the display
circuit. It seems that the computer is still working fine because I was able
to boot it in target disk mode just fine.

Anyway, Apple quoted me at over $750 to replace the motherboard of the iBook
who was purchased for $1000.

So, what are my options here? I thought I could maybe find a replacement for
less and replace it myself, since I have disassembled various PowerBooks and
was able to put them back together and they still worked. However, that
would probably void her warranty. OTOH, my experience is that the warranty
might not be that helpful and will be running out anyway in a few months.

So, what are you people suggesting?

Thanks for any opinion!

-Laurent.
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Re: Lombard vs Pismo

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The Pismo is better, hands down. It has the faster bus speed, and a 
properly supported video card (mostly, it has a couple OpenGL glitches 
with large textures, but those are from fairly new apps that are written 
to ignore older cards like the Rage 128). Those two alone make it 
worthwhile to use over the Lombard, and I have used both. The experience 
is a lot smoother all around, and the DVD support in OS X for the Pismo is 
a bonus too.

- Adam

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Re: Anyone here use virtual PC?

[Adam Thayer]

On Oct 12, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: Steve Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx? 
pid=whichver

I'm sure it will run Linux just fine.
Are you seriously telling me that you think M$ will sell a version of
VPC that will allow faultless running of Linux etc ?
VPC will no longer be a PC emulator the way it was under Connectix,
it will be much more like SoftWindows (remember ?).
I hate them for it, but if I was them I'd probably do the same.
Well, here is the thing, it would take WORK to break the ability to 
boot Linux and other OSes that they just don't want to spend. What you 
aren't going to see is VPC additions for anything other than 
Windows-based OSes, and absolutely no help when creating a new drive. 
Beyond that, MS would have to do a fair amount of work to truly disable 
other OSes that just doesn't make business sense.

Regards,
Adam
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Re: Problem Lombard

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On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Tom and Lisa P wrote:
He tried to continue but no keystrokes appear on the screen.  Same 
for trying to shut down.  After pulling the AC and battery it now 
appears to be completely dead, not even giving a bong.  Its a 256 MB 
/400 MHz Lombard
Try putting in the AC or battery again ? ;-)
actually that sounds like a major hardware failure. Get in and make 
sure the processor card and memory are properly seated.

Otherwise, I'd suspect mobo or processor card failure.
Well, considering it booted once with a ROM checksum error, the 
processor card is probably dead. After checking to see if the processor 
is seated, and it still doesn't boot, then you will need to replace the 
processor card. I suspected that it /didn't/ become unseated, as the 
ROM checksum error would not have happened (the ROM, CPU and RAM are 
all on the CPU card, so a not-so-good connection to the logic board 
will not cause a checksum error). Likely culprit is that the ROM chip 
failed completely, or came unsoldered from the CPU board. It could be 
fixable, but not worth the pain in my opinion, a new processor card is 
less effort and pain.

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Re: CD burner for Pismo bay?

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On Sep 11, 2004, at 12:31 AM, kaldav wrote:
Hello,
I have acquired a Pismo 400 mhz with 597 mb ram. I will be upgrading 
from OS9 to OSX. It has a DVD drive in it but I was wondering if I 
could buy a CD burner for it to fit in the bay. Are there recommended 
models available?
Thanks
I have used the Sony CRX820E DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive in both a Lombard and 
a Pismo. It is also the a model of drive used in the 2002 iBook, so it 
supports burning in Toast, iTunes, etc...

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Re: Help w/ Pismo!

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I am referring to before the flash started, but after you started the 
process in Software Update as you described in your first post. I am 
aware that pretty much nothing was done once the flash upgrade progress 
bar started, and the damage was done before that.

I was asking the questions to get an idea of exactly what you did from 
the point you got the Software Update dialog, to the point where the 
ROM flash progress bar started.

Regards,
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On Sep 5, 2004, at 10:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/5/04 12:32:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now that is some good news. Since Daystar does chip swapping (I
believe) on CPU upgrades, I have good faith that they could reflash 
the
ROM.
Yeah. Good, but I have NO faith that it will be FREE(!).
But this changes the cause of the problem. Since the flash was
complete, the flash loaded the wrong data into ROM and caused your
problem and why it sat there 'twitching' for 30 minutes. I think this
might either be one of two things: You said you shut down the machine
first, this might have an effect, or the data used for the flash 
wasn't
properly loaded.
Well, it does not matter, since I took the HD out of the Pismo, and 
put it in
my Lombard, started it up, and erased the ROM update program.

Did you actually shut down the machine at any point?
After it completed "the progress bar" and then went into a flashing
pram/sleep lamp for about 30 minutes (when theinstructions said it 
would restart), yes,
I did turn it off.

If you did, then I would wager that caused the problem. If you did a
restart, then the fault is in Software Update on OS 9, as it 
downloaded
something with a bad checksum.
No, it never allowed me to restart. After it loaded and went into the
aformentioned "flashing light" mode, after restarting it did the short 
tone and
flashing light mode.

I am DONE with ROM...
Craig W.
Atlanta GA
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Re: Help w/ Pismo!

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On Sep 4, 2004, at 5:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, Daystar Technologies, with whom I have done business before (and 
I live
withing walking distance from) says they can re-flash the ROM; just 
waiting
to hear what the damage will be...

Craig W.
Atlanta, GA
Now that is some good news. Since Daystar does chip swapping (I 
believe) on CPU upgrades, I have good faith that they could reflash the 
ROM.

But this changes the cause of the problem. Since the flash was 
complete, the flash loaded the wrong data into ROM and caused your 
problem and why it sat there 'twitching' for 30 minutes. I think this 
might either be one of two things: You said you shut down the machine 
first, this might have an effect, or the data used for the flash wasn't 
properly loaded.

Did you actually shut down the machine at any point?
If you did, then I would wager that caused the problem. If you did a 
restart, then the fault is in Software Update on OS 9, as it downloaded 
something with a bad checksum.

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Re: Help w/ Pismo!

[Adam Thayer]

Well, here is the meaning of the tones (From the Apple Service Manuals 
for the Pismo):

 1 beep No RAM is installed or detected.
 2 beeps EDO memory is installed. The PowerBook (FireWire) ships with 
SDRAM SO-DIMMs and does not accept EDO memory.
 3 beeps No RAM banks passed memory testing.
 4 or 5 beeps Bad checksum for the remainder of the boot ROM. The ROM 
(which is located on the microprocessor module) is bad.

What this means is that since you got 4 beeps, the ROM upgrade never 
got complete. The ROM flashing probably got interrupted. Tell me, what 
did you do after you heard the one long beep? Also, the flashing 
instructions I read say that you shouldn't shut down, so that all the 
data needed to flash the firmware is where it is supposed to be. I 
would like to know a little more detail on what you did *exactly* so I 
can at least let you know where it went wrong, exactly.

To be blunt the processor is not repairable without seeing if Apple 
themselves are willing to fix a bad ROM flash, and they might charge 
you more than it would cost to grab a 400Mhz processor.

Regards,
Adam Thayer
On Sep 3, 2004, at 5:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/3/04 5:31:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay; played with my Pismo some moreNOW when I try to start it 
up,
I get
four, even tone slow beeps (NOT the "tone of death") and the 
PRAM/sleep
lamp
starts flashing in cycles of four...
So; what level of Hades has my processor gone to NOW?!?
Could it be another board ?  Maybe the power board ?
Doubtful, since it's only doing this with one of the 400mhz processors 
I
have; with the other one it is working fine.

I guess it's time to Cowboy up & get another processor; I mussed this 
one up.

Craig W.
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Re: Pismo sleep issue

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On Aug 30, 2004, at 11:15 AM, Seth Austen wrote:
Further updates on the situation. We installed sys 9.04 onto a 3rd, 
empty
partition using the original installation disc, just for test 
purposes. That
partition wakes up from sleep, but still not my main partition, on 
which we
reinstalled 9.2.1, trying to keep my original system.

This seems to lead to a software conflict. Anyone have any hints?? I'm
getting tired of crashing and force restarts.
I just remembered something. Some laptop HDs tend to mess with the 
magnetic sensors in the G3 Series (although I cannot remember which 
ones) which create the symptoms you describe. Different versions of the 
OS have different methods of handling HDs during sleep, which could be 
causing your wake from sleep problem. I am not sure if this affects 
Pismos though, so someone else who could clarify this path of thought 
further would help shed light on your problem.

Regards,
Adam Thayer
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Re: Pismo sleep issue

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On Aug 29, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Seth Austen wrote:
My 2+ year old 20 G travelstar hard drive died last week, and I got a 
40 G
Seagate to replace it. For the most part the installation went 
smoothly,
however I've since been having issues where the computer won't wake up 
from
sleep, so I have to force a restart. We've run norton, disk warrior, 
rebuilt
desktop, etc, to no avail.

For the record, we created 3 partitions on the new hard drive, copied 
system
9.1 and my files from a backup into 1 partition, then updated that 
partition
to 9.2 and installed 10.3 from CDs into another partition. I'm 
currently
working from the sys 9 partition, want to get that running smoothly 
before I
deal with OSX.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Sounds like the hardware is faulty. If you can, try to run your 
Hardware diagnostic CD if you still have it, or get something like Tech 
Tool Pro. Another possibility is double-check the connection the HD has 
with your Pismo. When I installed a 40G Hitachi drive, I seriously 
messed things up by not getting the connection right. It worked just 
fine for about a week, started crashing like crazy, and then 
disappeared. You might see something similar, so double-check those 
connections. Worst case scenario is that you call Seagate up and get a 
replacement drive, but best case scenario is that is just a loose 
cable.

PS, thanks to Adam for the recommendation of the Sony CRX820E, I've 
just
ordered one of these to replace my LG CD/DVD drive that also decided 
to go
south in the last few weeks.
Apple uses the CRX820E in the 2002 model iBooks, so it is a nice safe 
bet to go with. No real need to thank me, as I pulled my information 
from xlr8yourmac.com and their reader reports.

Regards,
Adam Thayer
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Re: Drive Setup 2.0.7 question "Top vs. Bottom" "First vs. Next"??

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If they told you that you had installed it on the wrong partition, as 
if you had the 8GB limit on OS X, then they aren't the techs to have 
repair this. I had a Lombard with nearly the exact specs as yours, and 
I can definitely say it doesn't have the 8GB limit problem. Not to 
mention that OS X being installed on the 'wrong partition' (as they 
claim) would prevent you from even booting OS X, rather than crashes, 
freezes and lockups. The cache memory is right next to the processor, 
and as someone else said, holds information that needs to be used 
often.

My guess is that your processor card is going bad, and that the techs 
you took it to were incompetent and didn't have anyone who was 
certified in the last 5 years as an Apple tech. For them to claim it 
was a software error like that just reeks of ignorance and 
inexperience. Fortunately, processor cache going bad is a known 
problem, and relatively easy to fix: replace the processor card. A 
333Mhz processor card is relatively cheap on eBay, since Lombard owners 
want the 400Mhz processor, and I have a good feeling that getting one 
and replacing it would fix your problems. My Lombard started to show 
similar symptoms (after being problem free for a year after buying it 
used) as you are describing which I could only see as processor cache 
related. I never got the chance to actually see the later stages of the 
failure myself, because the screen cracked and I have been using 
another laptop since.

Regards,
Adam Thayer
On Aug 26, 2004, at 8:56 PM, D. G. Bowie wrote:
Here's my Drive Setup question:  When you initialize and divide a 
drive into two partitions with Drive Setup, does one of the partitions 
take priority as the "first" or "top" partition?  I recently took my 
Macintosh Powerbook G3 (Lombard, 333 MHz, with 384 RAM and 40 GB hard 
drive) in for repair after seeing this message for the first time and 
experiencing random crashes and freezes:

"The built-in memory test has detected a problem with cache memory. 
Please contact a service technician for assistance."

The fix-it shop ran various diagnostic texts, but didn't find a memory 
or hardware problem.  They told me that I had installed OSX (Panther) 
on the wrong partition.  (By way of explanation, most of the time I 
still use 9.2.2, since all my music software is pre-Panther, but I've 
had OSX installed on a second partition for some time now, 
anticipating a future move up to it.)

So, I paid their standard $50 servicing charge, grateful for the 
advice, and brought my Mac home.  Now, after backing up all my files 
onto another computer, I'm surprised to discover that the partitioning 
scheme I had been using appears fine.  In other words, in the Drive 
Setup "custom setup" screen, the "Panther" partition (7939 MB) sits on 
top of the "9.2.2 Powerbook" partition (29,958 MB). I wonder if 
perhaps the partition on the bottom is really the one I need to 
re-install Panther on?  If not, I wonder if I've received dubious or 
random advice?  In looking through the Drive Setup documentation, I 
find no mention of any partition taking priority as the "first" or the 
"top" partition; I've always assumed that the "Startup Disk" control 
panel in 9.2.2 dictates priority.

I do intend to give the Panther partition more space than the 8 GB 
it's had up until now, but I still don't know whether to install 
Panther on the bottom or top partition.  I've been told it matters, 
but I'm confused.  I'll need to ask the service folks more about this, 
but also wanted to post my question here in the meantime. Thanks for 
any wisdom on this matter.

Regards,
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Re: new CD drive for Pismo

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On Aug 26, 2004, at 9:15 PM, Kathryn Odell wrote:
Besides the Matshita, I've found that the Sony CRX820E fits in the 
expansion bay. Has anyone had any experience with this model?
Kate
I got a CRX820E for my Lombard awhile back, replacing the CD-ROM drive. 
Worked great with no effort, and am now using it on a Pismo with no 
problems. Boots from CDs/DVDs, burns without problems, and the only 
complaint is that the bezel doesn't match up at all. Doesn't matter 
that much to me though.

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Re: dvd burner

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On Aug 22, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ken wrote:
My Reply follows quote. On 22/08/2004 11:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi,
Don't know whether this has been asked before or not, but I came 
across
a DVD R burner that is USB 2.0 and was wondering if it would work with
my clamshell ibook 300. The specs of it says it will work with Mac OS 
9
and it includes BHA B's Recorder Gold v1.72 , but says it does not
include DVD authoring software for the Mac. So what would I use to 
burn
DVD's?
I am trying to decide whether to get the usb one or the firewire one. 
I
was just hoping it will work with my Clamshell, so that is why I would
consider the usb.

thanks,
Pam

The Clamshell series of iBooks don't do USB 2, only 1. Therefore, you
will need an application that can drive the burner under USB 1. 
Probably
Toast 5 or so. Then you need to make sure that the Version of Toast
has a "driver" for that burner.

Ken
Actually, it doesn't matter. USB 2 is backwards compatible with USB 1 
so the drive will look the same to the iBook as it would to a USB 2 
capable machine. The difference is that the speed you would get from 
the burner is about 12Mbps or roughly 1.4MB/sec which is not enough for 
burning DVDs at all.

Also there is confusion in the original question about burning at all. 
B's recorder BURNS the DVDs, while you need something like iDVD to 
AUTHOR a DVD movie. Authoring is taking video clips and preparing them 
into a format for burning as a DVD movie. If you are just going to be 
burning data onto a DVD, or copying other discs, then you don't need to 
author a DVD, and B's recorder will work.

So, my recommendation is to avoid USB DVD burners as you will never 
create a usable disc at 1.4MB/sec (DVD 1x is somewhere around 
4-5MB/sec, if I recall correctly). Firewire is really your only option 
if you have a firewire port on the iBook.

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Re: DVD Decoder card

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On Aug 20, 2004, at 11:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi; I am currently looking for an extra DVD decoder pc card for a 
Wallstreet
I am giving to a relative.

Am I restricted to Apple's DVD decoder? I have seen several others, 
including
one by VST.

Thanks,
Craig W.
Atlanta, GA
Yeah, Apple's or VST's are the only ones that will be compatible, as 
long as the VST one claims Wallstreet compatibility. VST's card is 
actually a re-branded Apple card when Apple decided to not produce them 
anymore (IIRC), same with SmartDisk's Yo-Yo adapter now.

Warning: Product Plug Below
I have an Apple branded DVD card which I have no desire to keep around 
(I have a Pismo now and used it in a Lombard), which is functional and 
I would be willing to part with for a reasonable price. If you are 
interested, just let me know what your offer is, as I am willing to go 
a reasonable level under eBay's prices. Heck, I will throw in a 
HDI-SCSI adapter in free as it only cost me 2$ new. :)

Regards,
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Re: advice re secondhand laptop configuration

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On Aug 15, 2004, at 2:21 AM, kaldav wrote:
Hello,
I would value people's suggestions regarding a laptop to purchase 
second hand.
It needs to be faster than my 3400, run both OS9 and OSX, preferably 
able to boot into OS9 as I have software to run and little for OSX.
What would be the model to get (a Pismo?), the optimum ram and hard 
drive size needed to run this effectively.
Presently I have serial connection printers (Epson 600 and Apple 
Stylewriter 2500) but would not find changing the printer to USB, etc. 
a factor.
Thanks.
Having both a Lombard and a Pismo, I personally say Pismo. The 
difference you will see between OS X performance will be big. The 
Lombard is acceptable, but if you want to do anything that uses OpenGL, 
watch the occasional DVD, etc, the Pismo is then your only choice. The 
Lombard's video chip is pretty poor (of course, I started on a Voodoo 3 
back in 1999 for my 8600, which still beats out the Rage 128 Mobility 
in the Pismo), so the quality of anything 16-bit isn't great, but you 
need 16-bit to get video speed from it. The firewire is a plus too.

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Re: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive

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On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Making the installation, not much time, recovering your settings?
Tedious.
No, I can save my settings ina backup, make a fresh install and get 
back
my settings along with all my files. No problem. Copying the system 
also
takes time, which you pretend it doesn't.
With a fresh install, you also DO NOT RISK any potential flaws moving
with you to the new system. Also, if you are in the habit of tweaking 
the
system, it may not be a good idea to move those tweaks to a new 
machine.
Fixing problems are tedious and while it may appear to work for you in
one case it may not work for everyone in every case and personally I'd
rather be safe than sorry, with such a little cost if any.
The thing is, while this is true for a MacOS 9 install, as there were 
quite a few things that were specific to the drive done during the 
install, this isn't as true for MacOS X. I would like to ask what 
potential flaws would move over which wouldn't also be duplicated 
through the install/upgrade/re-tweak/restore procedure you describe, as 
you are in essence, attempting to recreate the state of your old drive 
on a new machine. Mind stating a couple? I would sure like to know so I 
can investigate why this is myself (OS design/etc is a "hobby" of sorts 
since my last class in Operating Systems Design & Implementation).

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Re: Pismo Max HD Size

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On Aug 5, 2004, at 6:23 AM, Javier Miranda V. wrote:
Dear friends:
Anyone knows the maximum size the Pismo can "see", I'm planning to buy 
an external Firewire HD and don't want to buy a 200Gb disk if it would 
not bee seen by the machine.
Thanks in advance,

Javier
It will work. I hooked up large disks via Firewire to an 8600, which is 
four years older than the Pismo (and my Pismo), so I don't see why not. 
Windows has problems with some drives, but only internal ones. ATA-66 
controllers cannot see larger ATA-133 drives because of the design of 
ATA-66. The only case where you would need to really worry is if you 
are swapping out the internal drive.

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Re: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive

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On Aug 4, 2004, at 5:57 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OS X installs everything for every Mac supported.
This is not 100% correct, I think. Some delivered systems must be to 
some
extent machine specific as we had great problems with a G5, upon which 
we
installed a standard Panther (it came with Jaguar). After certain
problems, we received G5 Panther System disks, reinstalled and our
problems went away.

So then, A Panther System from a G4 box, wouldn't work fully just by
copying it to a G5 system, even as Panther in later incarnations
(updates) may support the G5 systems fully.
This was also common, with earlier G4 machines. But, in general you do
have a point that systems *may* be transferable. I'd never do it like
that though, as making a specific installation really doesn't take that
much time.
Making the installation, not much time, recovering your settings? 
Tedious.

My personal instinct is that if you go between two 32-bit machines, you 
aren't likely to have problems,
but if you go between a 32-bit and 64-bit machine with Panther you will 
have problems. I personally swapped out my 40GB drive from my Lombard 
to my new Pismo and haven't seen anything but stability improvements 
(Panther's CoreAudio seriously blows on my Lombard, causing kernel 
panics like crazy in games and movies). But the major arch difference 
between the G3/G4 systems and G5 systems is understandably a source of 
problems. However, I am with Alejandro in saying that there isn't 
really anything truly different in the OS installs, not even on some 
hidden level, as I have mucked with the install CDs and installed OSes 
on a couple different machines and could find no difference. Even the 
kernel was 100% identical.

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Re: Pismo troubleshooting

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On Aug 3, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Alejandro wrote:
Well, The MOST important thing here is that you have a
working PowerBook and not is someone is right or not.
I'm glad I helped you.
Very true. My downtime was at a minimum (had to wait until the 3rd for 
RAM so I could use OS X, but beyond that my downtime was acceptable).

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Re: Pismo troubleshooting

[Adam Thayer]

On Aug 1, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote:
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:03:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pismo troubleshooting
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Subject: Re: Pismo troubleshooting
You have a Lombard wich needs a screen to work.
Well, you can place the Pismo's one.
This will be the faster solution.
Follow these steps:
http://homepage.mac.com/scadboy/lcd/
Anyway, it will be better to fix the Pismo, because
it's the only which have DVD Playback on OS X and has
a better Video Card.\
Pismo and Lombard do not have the same screens - the
flat cable
connectors on them are in about a quarter-inch
different place and so
do not match up correctly.
The screens aren't the same, but the LCD can be
replaced. Check the page and you will see that the
Pismo and the Lombard can have the same LCD (inside
the cover screen).
Apple changed some things, because they DON'T want
users replacing LCDs on NON Apple Services.
Instead of having cheaper prices, they replaced the
connectors.
Funny, isn't it?
"All of these panels are compatible with PowerBook G3s
with 14.1" Displays:"
- WallStreet (G3 233-292)
- PDQ (Revised Wallstreet)
- Lombard (Built-in USB)
- Pismo (Built-In Firewire)
You are correct in saying the screens are not the same, although I 
think you're talking about the housings.
The actual LCD is a different part number. I have taken apart quite a 
few Lombards and Pismos and can say from actual experience rather than 
someone else's web page that the LCD probably won't work. The flat 
connector that is part of the LCD is in a different place, so your 
flex cable from the motherboard will not work correctly.
While this is true, I have a bit of experience taking apart the display 
housings for this model of Powerbook. The LCD panel itself can be 
swapped, just not all the various parts around it, which makes it more 
difficult as the display housing is one of the more fragile and 
difficult pieces to dissect.

I am currently running on the Pismo under 10.3.4 and enjoying it. The 
tip given by Alejandro allowed me to reset the motherboard and get it 
started. More RAM got me into OS X and boy is it night and day between 
the Lombard and Pismo. :)

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Re: Pismo troubleshooting

[Adam Thayer]

On Jul 30, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Alejandro wrote:
Check this.
With powerbook attached to the AC Adapter (no
battery), press the start button, and you should hear
a little "contact" sound at the same time the Start
button is pressed (before the Startup sound).
If you don't maybe the machine is not powered at all.
You are right in that the machine is not getting power to where it 
needs to go.
However, it doesn't seem like the Battery Board, and since power is not 
getting anywhere (entire machine is cold after pressing the power 
button), that would leave the logic board, correct? What I am trying to 
do is figure out what components would cause the Pismo to remain cold 
dead with both a fully charged battery, and an AC power source.

First and easiest thing to check is the RAM. I've
seen a few Pismos refuse
to boot because they had a stick of bad ram. If
that's not it, try a
different processor (assuming  you've also checked
it's not that the
processor isn't fully seated on the logic board).
Well, if it is a bad stick of RAM, there should be something happening. 
HD noise, a light, the normal speaker 'click', the beeps of the 
self-diagnostic, something. Bad RAM doesn't stop power from flowing 
like this.

On Jul 30, 2004, at 6:48 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Are you sure the Soundcard gives power to the I/O board? This was the
reason in a dead Pismo I dissected recently.
The good news is that I already tested with a battery and eliminated 
this as a possibility... unless the AC board has magical powers to 
prevent a boot from a battery, which doesn't seem entirely likely.

What I am trying to do here is figure out if it is the Logic Board, 
Processor card, or battery board that could cause a completely cold, 
dead, lifeless Pismo. It is as if it is a door-stop.

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Pismo Troubleshooting?

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I helped attempt to troubleshoot a Pismo awhile back, and while we 
couldn't find the cause immediately, I have been offered the system. 
This means that I would have a shot to resurrect it. I personally have 
eliminated most possibilities (other than complete system failure) 
except two:

Processor went bad
Logic Board went bad
Now here is the problem. It refuses to boot on AC or battery (known 
good from a Lombard I have), no lights, sounds, or anything else. Since 
the HD doesn't even start to spin, that makes me lean towards the logic 
board (since that controls power to the HD). Am I on the right track 
leaning towards the logic board, or have people had situations where 
there was no HD sound with a bad processor? I have seen reports of dead 
Pismos showing similar symptoms but with HD sound, which tends to lean 
towards the processor being the issue. Anyone have an entirely 
different diagnosis, comments or suggestions for attempting to 
resurrect it?

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Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

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This is precisely why, actually. Steve Jobs said that MacOS X would 
'last us' through the decade at least, which is why it has been 10.x.x 
for 5 years now. Another way to look at it is this:

MacOS x.y.z
x - Major Version Number - Represents a whole new core for the OS.
y - Minor Version Number - Represents new features that are added to 
the OS.
z - Patch Version Number - Represents tuning and other enhancements 
that don't add features.

Granted this only works for versions since 10.0.0, but once you get 
used to it, it makes as much sense as Apple's system before.

On Jul 17, 2004, at 6:34 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Friday, July 16, 2004, at 11:16  PM, Joshua Braddock wrote:
So, with each version release, like 10.1 to  10.2 cost money? why 
didnt they do like what they did with classic os's and do 8.1 costs, 
but 8.2-8.4 doesnt, 8.5 does, 8.6-8.9 doesnt? lol i dont under stand 
that.. so 10.1.1-x is free, but 10.1 to 10.2 isnt. and 10.2 to 10.3 
isnt, and 10.3 to 10.4 isnt
Actually it's exactly like 7.5->7.6->8.0->8.5->9.0
Each of those was a major upgrade, and the in-between releases were 
bug-fixes and minor upgrades.

the differentce between 10.1 and 10.2 is very much like the difference 
between 7.6 and 8.1, or Windows 3.11 and windows 95; a huge 
difference, like they were different OS'es, in fact.

10.3 is a BIG improvement over 10.2.
They fine tuned where to put the decimal place for 10, probably so 
they can use OS X for a lot longer.

That said, there was 10.2.0, .2, .3, .4, .6, and .8, and 10.3.1, .2, 
.3 and .4 all for free.

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Re: OSXhints: A real workaround for the 8GB limit on older Macs

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Yes, definitely interesting, but be aware you still need a partition  
that you boot from to "help" and that needs to be in the first 8GB of  
the drive, and it consumes space away from your OS X partition. Before  
you do something like this, ask yourself if the work you have to put  
into maintaining a system like this is worth it. The two big things  
that don't make it worth it (to me) are:

- Must resync the helper disk for every minor update that requires a  
reboot, or you will not be able to boot safely into X, experience  
instability, or simply not have the update running.

- Must do the backup/install/restore shuffle on any major update. This  
is a pain going through all the steps once, but having to do it every  
18 months?

My advice? Don't expect to store all your stuff in your Home folder. I  
use multiple partitions like I did in OS 9. Games, movies, music don't  
reside on the main partition, but on others. Saves me the headache of  
having to muck with the partitions and simply do backups when needed.

Regards,
Adam Thayer
On Jul 6, 2004, at 4:23 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Did you guys see this one?
"I've worked out a work-around for the 8GB limit for system volumes on
older Macintoshes. I'm writing this on a Beige G3 with a 27G system
partition, and I'm confident that it won't be rendered unbootable by
system updates or disk activity (the reason for the 8GB limit in the
first place). Most of the credit goes to Ryan Remple and his XPostFacto
tool for installing OS X on older, unsupported Macs -- the 'trick'  
relies
on using XPF's 'Helper Disk' feature. I haven't tried it, but I think  
it
should also work on Macintoshes that are affected by the 8GB limitation
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<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
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Lombard CPU going Bad?

[Adam Thayer]

I have had a used 333 Lombard for about a year now, with a variety of 
upgrades such as a new HD, DVD/CD-RW drive, RAM, etc...

I am starting to get lock-ups under OS X 10.3, multiple times a day. It 
really seems to be linked to when I peg the CPU at 100% for a period of 
time running something like a big compile project. However, it isn't a 
heat issue either.

Any possibilities that could be present? Be aware that I don't have 
Apple's hardware diagnostics CD, and I don't currently have access to 
TechTool to do a hardware diagnosis either.

Anyone encounter this problem as well, and found the cause? I am 
starting to get really annoyed attempting to do compile work for people 
on this laptop and having to restart every few files or so.

Regards,
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Re: No OS 9 on iBook or Powerbook

[Adam Thayer]

It still may be true, it depends on when the machine was manufactured. 
2003 and later models don't allow for booting into OS 9 directly, while 
2002 and older do, but those made 2002 or earlier require 9.2.2 like 
you said.

On May 6, 2004, at 2:54 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There was a member who posted difficulties installing os 9 from a 
standard
installer cd on his (or her) iBook (or powerbook).  I suggested that 
after
the applecare service, Apple may have put in a new rom not allowing 
for OS 9
boot.

Problem with that reasoning now is that those machines still allow for 
a
classic install.

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Lombard Panther Video

[Adam Thayer]

I am just curious as to what problems other Lombard owners might have 
had with lockups and other curious bugs while using 10.3.3.

I personally have had no problems until I upgraded to 10.3.3, and tried 
everything, hunting down the cause. Lock-ups would happen randomly, and 
the video would be messed up after a hard reset, requiring ANOTHER 
reboot. It seems like the new video drivers are the culprit, and after 
using Pacifist to downgrade my video drivers to the ones in 10.3.2... 
my video is faster (although not as pretty when moving windows) and the 
bug is gone.

Anyone else seeing similar lock-ups under 10.3.3?
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Re: RAM needed for OS X on Lombard

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Officially, the bottom slot can take a 128 low-profile DIMM and the 
upper slot can take a 256. Unofficially, many people have put 256MB 
low-profile DIMMs in the lower slot for a total of 512MB RAM. OWC seems 
to be a good source for this because of the lifetime warranty and 
guarantee that they meet Apple's specs.

On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 09:44 PM, Tsuki Hoshijima wrote:

I have a Lombard (333mhz) running OS 9, which I would like to upgrade 
to
Panther.  I have 192megs of physical memory installed, 128 on the top 
slot
and 64 on the bottom.  I have often heard that for OS X, the more RAM 
you
have, the better it runs.  I want to know how much RAM would be 
sufficient
to run Panther smoothly on this machine.

Also, what is the maximum RAM that this computer could hold?  I 
believe that
the top slot can hold up to 256 (or maybe 512, I'm not sure) and the 
bottom
slot can hold a max of 64.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.


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Re: Jaguar or Panther on Lombard?

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They will work better in Classic, and I would go with MacOS X 10.3, 
personally. You have to purchase one of them, and it might as well be 
the newest. 10.3 runs very well on my Lombard 333, with Photoshop 7 
running well natively. I used Office 98 a few times, and it feels 
almost as snappy as under 9, but not quite. Still, the Classic 
compatibility is much better in 10.2 and 10.3 than it is in 10.1

On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 05:21 PM, w miller wrote:

I tried to find the answer in the archives but didn't see an 
appropriate
thread.
Which OSX should I settle on for my Lombard 400/384 RAM? 10.1 
(which I
have but have not installed)? Jaguar? Panther?
I really don't want to buy new application software. I most 
frequently
use Microsoft 98 Office, Photoshop 7, Filemaker 5, Now Up to Date and
Contact, SoundEdit, Toast, etc. Will they work as well in Classic?

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Re: Volume Wrapper

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Yet, the damage doesn't need to come from bad formatting... the data 
can corrupt just like any other file on the disk, as it is accessed and 
changed by OS X periodically.

On Sep 20, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Hamlin Krewson wrote:

On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Adam Thayer wrote:

Sorry, the Volume Wrapper is actually an HFS+ specific thing. The 
Volume Wrapper is a chunk of HFS information to allow the ROMs in 
older machines to properly boot an HFS+ drive,
Which would make it part of the formatting process (for HFS+).


It's a part of the formatting process I believe. Bad formatting, bad 
drive, bad logic.

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On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 04:08  PM, Dr. John Pullyblank 
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Re: Volume Wrapper

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Sorry, the Volume Wrapper is actually an HFS+ specific thing. The 
Volume Wrapper is a chunk of HFS information to allow the ROMs in older 
machines to properly boot an HFS+ drive, since this wrapper is part of 
the HFS+ specification, all HFS+ partitions have it. The significance 
could be large or small... but personally, I would run Disk Utility off 
the OS X install CD (if your iBook has it) to do the repairs of 
something like that rather than Disk Warrior.

If Disk Utility can't fix it... then it would appear to be a bad drive, 
run the Hardware Diagnostic CD that came with the iBook and if errors 
come up there, it is time to call Apple to get the drive replaced.

On Sep 19, 2003, at 2:27 PM, Hamlin Krewson wrote:

It's a part of the formatting process I believe. Bad formatting, bad 
drive, bad logic.

Hamlin

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 04:08  PM, Dr. John Pullyblank wrote:

Hi,

I have just replaced my Wallstreet with a new iBook. When I run 
DiskWarrior 3, some scans indicate that there is a serious problem 
with the volume wrapper that it then fixes. Can anybody remind me of 
what a volume wrapper is, the significance of errors with it, and why 
this problem may reoccur?

Thanks for any help.

John

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Re: Finally upgraded my WSII to OSX

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Yeah, because the drive was erased, software will not restore it... but 
erasing the drive usually does not do anything to the actual files. It 
just destroys the directory listing where the files are on the drive. 
Drive Savers can scour the entire drive for erased files, but it takes 
time and special equipment.

On Sep 17, 2003, at 12:34 PM, Wayne wrote:

I may be wrong (its been some time since I used Norten), but the 
Unerase
feature used to only work after Norten was installed and Filesaver was
active. Then Norten could bring files back. This would also only work 
on
files that were thrown away, not for formatting of hard drives which 
erase
data completely.

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Re: Finally upgraded my WSII to OSX

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Sorry, but at this point the only option is an expensive one. Drive 
Savers can recover data from a drive like this (as long as you aren't 
writing data to the disk!!!)... but they charge a very hefty fee to do 
so, as they use clean rooms, special equipment and take your drive 
apart to read the platters manually with their equipment.

Other than that... your only option is to re-create your drive by 
taking your data and backing it back up onto the drive. By erasing, you 
probably lost everything beyond a software solution's ability to 
recover. (An erase destroys the current file map and makes a new one... 
preventing Norton/etc from doing their job)

On Sep 17, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Steve Kerney wrote:

Upgrade went real well with one exception I'll get to in a moment.  
Thanks for your suggestions.  They helped me overcome my trepidation 
and go for it.

Prior to installation, I decided to "erase" my OS X partition (Special 
-> Erase Disk) I but had the wrong disk partition selected ("Backup" 
instead of "OS 10")!  Won't do that again (especially since, after the 
fact, I learned that the installation gives me the option to do just 
that!).

Disk warrior can't help me recover my here-yesterday-gone-today files 
so I bought Norton Utilities 8.0 hoping it would do the trick.  I 
contacted the vendor prior to purchase asking them if their product 
will do this.  I've not heard back (yet).

After the disk arrived last night, I tried both "Volume Recover" and 
"Unerase" several times selecting several different options, one of 
which took all night to scan my disk partion, but Norton can't find 
any of my "erased" files.

I've written nothing to the partition since the accident and have told 
the utilities I've tried (DW and NU) to not save changes.

Any suggestions on recovering my erased-through-carelessness "backup" 
disk partition?

Thanks.

Steve K (the other one)



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Re: Lombard/airport?

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Well, if you are running OS X 10.2.x, I recommend the OWC 
802.11g/802.11b card for 50$. Their stuff is cheap and I haven't had a 
problem with their stuff.

On Sep 16, 2003, at 6:43 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:

It has to use a non-Apple wireless card, because the Apple AirPort 
card
doesn't have an antenna so that's why you can use it only in an
AirPort-ready Macintosh because those have an internal antenna in 
the case.
The other reason is that although the form factors are the same, an 
airport card will not work in a pcmcia slot and vice versa. The 
pinouts are not the same either. I think this is a BIT more important 
than not having an internal antenna. ;)
Hmm.

Supposedly it's only two pins that have been switched... But don't ask 
me which!

Has anyone ever tried installing the internal ORiNOCO/Agere cards in 
the AirPort slot?  Some exist, but I've actually never seen them for 
sale anywhere.  Apple's AirPort card is simply a rebadged WaveLAN 
Silver, anyhow...

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Re: Lombard/Pimso Trackpad Issue

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Okay, good to hear... it isn't a major issue at the moment, as I use  
the trackpad fairly sparingly. Although if it does get bad enough, I  
will go ahead and deal with it when I install the 40GB HD into this  
machine.

On Sep 14, 2003, at 6:31 PM, Jim Eddy wrote:

On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Adam Thayer wrote:

The Lombard has a rubber bumper on the trackpad button that makes it  
feel quite stiff--there is no audible or tactile click with this  
model. If the bumper is dislodged it makes dragging difficult and  
makes clicking a hit or miss affair. Fixing involves about a half  
dismantling to get it reset. It sounds like yours has been knocked  
loose, possibly in an earlier repair.
Hmm, that is interesting, as the button does feel as if there is a  
little give... but occasionally it makes a hard 'click' noise which I  
don't like, and others, just fails to respond.
Sounds to me like it's moving around in there. When I first got my  
Lombard used, the trackpad button had some movement to it, but would  
release during a dragging operation (which led to many misplaced  
files). It was repaired under warranty by Apple. When it came back,  
there was little discernible movement and no "click" but it worked  
perfectly.
A year or so later, I disassembled the computer to fix the back port  
door that had come loose. I reassembling the unit, the bumper on the  
pad slid off. I had to re-strip down the the unit to put it back on.  
Again, it worked fine.
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Re: Lombard/Pimso Trackpad Issue

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On Sep 14, 2003, at 3:02 PM, Jim Eddy wrote:

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 01:06 AM, Adam Thayer wrote:

I recently got a used Lombard, and although everything seems in great 
shape, I am noticing some odd behavior with the trackpad button.

It occasionally gets stiff in certain areas, as if something is stuck 
under the button. Sometimes it is there, sometimes it isn't, and it 
isn't in the same place... and rarely the button doesn't even want to 
move, but is stuck in the 'pressed' position. If it gets stiff, 
pressing and using some canned air around the button gets to behave 
nicely again.

Am I right in thinking something got stuck under there? Anyone else 
have this problem, and find a way to fix it?
The Lombard has a rubber bumper on the trackpad button that makes it 
feel quite stiff--there is no audible or tactile click with this 
model. If the bumper is dislodged it makes dragging difficult and 
makes clicking a hit or miss affair. Fixing involves about a half 
dismantling to get it reset. It sounds like yours has been knocked 
loose, possibly in an earlier repair.
Hmm, that is interesting, as the button does feel as if there is a 
little give... but occasionally it makes a hard 'click' noise which I 
don't like, and others, just fails to respond.

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Re: Wallstreet wireless

[Adam Thayer]

On Sep 12, 2003, at 11:31 PM, Gary E Davis wrote:

Hey all



I need help.. I'm trying to go wireless in my home but can't find
anything about going wireless with my wallstreet? Which PCMCIA card is
best to use?  And which Cable router would you recommend?
Begin a shameless plug:

OWC (eshop.macsales.com) is currently offering a PCMCIA 802.11g/802.11b 
card for 50$ that claims Airport 3.1 support. I have only had one 
problem purchasing from them in the past (got a drive DOA, but it was 
resolved in less than a week at no charge), and so far everything that 
was working when I got it is still working.

I recommend you check it out.
http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_Specials.cfm?ID=6054&Item=OWCWLC3010
The catch is that you need 10.2.6 (which uses Airport 3.1)... although 
the card does seem to work as a 802.11b card. If I had one, I would 
tell you if it worked as just an 802.11b card under OS 9 or the like...

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Lombard/Pimso Trackpad Issue

[Adam Thayer]

I recently got a used Lombard, and although everything seems in great 
shape, I am noticing some odd behavior with the trackpad button.

It occasionally gets stiff in certain areas, as if something is stuck 
under the button. Sometimes it is there, sometimes it isn't, and it 
isn't in the same place... and rarely the button doesn't even want to 
move, but is stuck in the 'pressed' position. If it gets stiff, 
pressing and using some canned air around the button gets to behave 
nicely again.

Am I right in thinking something got stuck under there? Anyone else 
have this problem, and find a way to fix it? 

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Re: DVD-R/W in Pismo

[Adam Thayer]

On Sep 9, 2003, at 4:28 PM, JeffH wrote:
I tested a Toshiba SD-R6012 DVD-R inside a Pismo optical caddy and it
worked with DVD Studio Pro and Toast, but not with iDVD. I don't know
what iDVD looks for to decide if a Mac + DVD-writer is supported or 
not.
I don't think any Apple SuperDrives will write to a +R format, they 
are all -R. My iMac doesn't even see a +R disc correctly.
He wasn't mentioning DVD+R with that comment... so I am not sure what 
the point of that was... *raises eyebrow*

Another question is, why do we want to burn DVD's on a Pismo/Lombard? 
FWIW, I just burned a Video CD in Toast - for 38 minutes of video, my 
TiBook 500 took 4:20 to prep the file. That's hours. I'd think a G3 
will be somewhat slower
If I were crazy enough to buy a DVD burner for a laptop, I would use it 
for data discs, not video.

Plus, try something other than Toast for prepping Video Discs... It 
uses QT for the MPEG-1 encoding which is really slow and gives awful 
quality compared to a semi-tuned ffmpegx encode. I do most of my 
encodes on a G4/400 upgraded 8600 to get 30+ minutes of video encoded 
into MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 in under 2 hours.

Regards,
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Re: DVD-R/W in Pismo

[Adam Thayer]

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 04:51 AM, Ron van Veen wrote:

Be sure it is a DVD-R (Not a  DVD+R), otherwise iDVD does not 
recognise the drive.
When it is a DVD-R it should work fine. Maybe you need special drivers 
for it.

Ron
I don't see any reason why you would not be able to make it work (other 
than size restrictions) if it is the model shipping in the 17" PBs. The 
drivers are already included in OS X, and it already supports DVD-R...

Make sure the dimensions are close enough, and be aware that you will 
not be able to use the bezel from your DVD-ROM drive.

Have fun!

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Re: Burning Multi Session CDs natively

[Adam Thayer]

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 12:04 AM, James G (Jim) Hardwick wrote:

20030908
As I was researching my recent problems with burning CDs, I came 
across info
on how to burn multi session CDs without having to use Toast or some 
other
third party software.

Ummm...is it possible under OS 9?

Thanks,
JH
Not really, the burning software Apple wrote in OS 9 was incomplete to 
say the least. It wasn't until 10.2 that OS X got a full CD burning API.

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Lombard/Wallstreet Video Drivers

[Adam Thayer]

Just a quick Q for you Lombard and Wallstreet users which sets of 
video drivers are you guys using for OS 9, and how is the video quality?

(The Oct 2002 drivers from ATi seem to have these glitches... I set my 
monitor to Millions, but it looks like it is still dithering down to 
Thousands and making a lot of web images look bad)

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Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)

[Adam Thayer]

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 08:57 AM, Adam Thayer wrote:

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Tom Peterson wrote:



-Original Message-
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"Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work 
on

G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines."

I have followed your lead and have a wallstreet II with a G4 Blue Chip
500 mhz installed, along with OSX 10.2.6. I have also hacked the
Plist.Info per Accelerate Your Mac to add Device ID 0x4c501002 to the
line of hardware identifiers.
Oh another thing... 3.0.1 and later (10.2 comes with 3.2) doesn't seem 
to need that hack. Where did you go to hack the hardware identifiers? 
The binary itself?

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Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)

[Adam Thayer]

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Tom Peterson wrote:



-Original Message-
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Subject: Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
"Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work 
on

G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines."

I have followed your lead and have a wallstreet II with a G4 Blue Chip
500 mhz installed, along with OSX 10.2.6. I have also hacked the
Plist.Info per Accelerate Your Mac to add Device ID 0x4c501002 to the
line of hardware identifiers. With and Without the Zoom card in the
wallstreet the DVD player will launch, the screen will darken for a
count of 2, then return with message that the DVD player has
unexpectedly quit. This hardware, the dvd drive and the pc card work
under OS 9.2.2. any thoughts? Thanks for the inspiration. I am trying 
to
remember where the Dmessage log is under OSX.
Hmm, well, the G4 hack should remove the need to use the DVD card, 
since the Altivec decoder uses the CPU for DVD decoding. For debug 
messages from apps (that spew to a console)... you can watch it using 
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app

Or you can look in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DVD Player.crash.log
(~ is your home directory)
The reason why Lombard/Wallstreet machines don't work under OS X while 
they did under OS 9 is that they tied the DVD decoder bundles to the 
graphics card drivers. The RageProLT couldn't do DVD, and apparently 
Apple never finished the OpenGL drivers for the RageProLT either.

See what those two sources give you in the way of information. (You can 
send me a personal e-mail with the crash log attached, that would help 
a lot)

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Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)

[Adam Thayer]

Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work on 
G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines.

I would love to hear from anyone who would like to try this on a 
Lombard or Wallstreet that has a G4 in it.

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DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)

[Adam Thayer]

This is my first post to the G-Books list, so I figured I might as well 
contribute some interesting information to the list... how to use 
Apple's DVD player in OS X with a Lombard (With a string attached!).

Now before you get your hopes up, there is a catch: You must be using a 
G4 upgrade in your Lombard. This how-to relies on using Apple's Altivec 
DVD decoder bundle to enable proper playback.

I am also assuming  you have 10.2 available, and upgraded to at least 
10.2.4 (where Apple added the Graphics Accelerator plug-in for the 
RagePro chipsets).

STEP 1 - Edit the RagePro kext to recognize the Altivec DVD Driver...
--
This is the first tricky part. open up a terminal window and enter the 
following commands:

cd /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRagePro.kext/Contents
sudo pico Info.plist
(It will ask you for your admin password at this point)
(pico is a simple text editor we will use to modify the information 
about your graphics card drivers)

Hit Control-W, and type 'IOGLBundleName' and hit enter, it will search 
the file for that text and bring us to where we need to be... you 
should see these four lines:

IOGLBundleName
ATIRageProGLDriver
IOMatchCategory
IOAccelerator
Now... between the second and third lines, add these two lines:

 IODVDBundleName
AppleAltiVecDVDDriver
So that you get this:

IOGLBundleName
ATIRageProGLDriver
 IODVDBundleName
AppleAltiVecDVDDriver
IOMatchCategory
IOAccelerator
Now hit Control-X and then 'Y' to exit and save the changes you made.
Your ATIRagePro driver can now tell Apple's DVD player how to play DVDs 
on your machine...
(I find it interesting that the driver references an OpenGL driver that 
isn't there... maybe Apple had intended to give OpenGL support or has 
some on low-priority in the works?)

STEP 2 - Install DVD Player
--
The tricky part is getting DVD Player to install and work now... 
Download Pacifist from www.macupdate.com, and pop in your Jaguar Disc 
1. In the Essentials.pkg package is the 3.2 DVD player, and you should 
be able to just have Pacifist install it for you.

Once this is done, reboot and you should be able to play DVDs on a 
G4-upgraded Lombard under 10.2...

If there are any errors or steps I missed or left out, contact me and 
we will get it all sorted out. I have yet to get a G4 Lombard to test 
this on, but if 3.2 works the way people have been reporting, this 
should work.

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