Re: Help! I've lost one harddrive and now the main harddrive won't boot!
What about SMART (S.M.A.R.T.) status and functionality? Shouldn't the drive's built-in SMART routines map out bad blocks? If they do, will the Surface Scan still try to read those blocks? BTW, is Tech Tools Deluxe really TechTool Pro, or is it a different program I haven't encoountered yet? - Aaron Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com Greetings ( + )!( + ) What you describe is exatly the same that I was having. Used Tech Tools Deluxe Surface Scan on my 320Gb drive (took about 12 Hrs.) and the report was Failed - Bad Blocks so I've laid that disk to rest RIP and have ordered a new drive. If you have Tech Tools Deluxe run the Surface Scan you will be surprised what it will find. Cheers - Harry - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Best G4 powermac??
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:55:38 -0700 From: jonas ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com I am looking at a dual 1ghz on ebay for $200 free shipping. Good deal? Will this one have cache? -Jonas For any machine you're thinking of buying, get the exact model number and look it up on everymac.com. Also, what's a good deal depends on, inter alia: 1) How much RAM does it come with? Also, if it comes with a fraction of the maximum for the model, is that in the form of several small DIMMs that you'll want to replace altogether, or one or two large ones (512 MB, preferably) that you can keep when you max out. 2) What capacity hard disks? What optical disk(s)? 3) What graphics card? This can make a big difference if you're going to be doing video work with iMovie or, especially, Final Cut Pro. Also, if you want to be able to drive two monitors, make sure that none of the ports on the card is an ADC port, unless you want to drive a monitor that can use such a port. (Either VGA monitors can't, or they need an expensive adapter if such even exists.) Also, make sure the card is an AGP card unless you don't expect to use all your PCI slots. One advantage of the MDD models, including the FW 800's, is that they have space for two optical disks. Depending on what you do with your computer, this can be an advantage. - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Latest on SATA PCI for a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz
From: PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:11:02 -0800 On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:24 AM, insightinmind wrote: What's the latest info on SATA PCI cards for a QS Dual 1GHz? I use both the LaCie and the Other World Initio-based SATA controllers in my PPC Macs. I believe these are 1.5 MB/sec, whereas the drives themselves are 1.5/3.0 MB/sec. That should be 1.5 and 3.0 Gb/sec -- gigabits, not megabytes. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting
At 18:35 -0500 2009/03/02, Yersinia wrote: Removing the NVIDIA would mean not being able to use the second monitor anymore! No! See below! I had originally asked him to remove the NVIDIA last year (Feb 2008) because I had bought a Radeon 9200 which I thought would be better, so he took the NVIDIA out and installed the Radeonit only made a marginal difference, but I kept it in there anyway, didn't bother him to switch back. Later on in the year I realized I actually had a good reason to have 2 monitors on the G4 (an idea I actually got from him -- when I visited him in the summer, I saw he had *3* monitors on HIS G4, but it took me awhile to figure out why I'D want more than the one I had!). But, for me to have 2 monitors, I had to have 2 video cards -- so I kept the Radeon where it was and asked him to put the NVIDIA in another slot and hook the second monitor up. He did, and I love having the two monitors. The Radeon 9200 will drive two monitors by itself! From the manufacturer's web site: Advanced Dual Display Support Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates Specifications ... Integrated TV-Out supports up to 1024x768 resolution Multiple Display connections DVI-I port VGA port S-Video port DVI-I to VGA S-Video to Composite adaptors included - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Disk Utility and 1TB hard disks
At 19:57 -0800 2009/03/03, PeterH wrote: The 10.4 Disk Utility works to at least 500 GB, which is the largest ATA hard drive made (this may have been increased to 750 MB, but it has not been increased to 1 TB and 1.5 TB as these are different series drives from 750 GB). What does different series drives mean? - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting
At 18:11 -0800 2009/03/01, tonycd wrote: As for which is first, I don't think the Panther one is #1 (I think it's #3), but I can't be sure because now I can't see the sequence. But, yes... in a masterpiece of poor planning, I think the Panther one is probably the only one that's BIGGER than 128. (Double duh.) - (I'm not sure if pdisk is incluced in the standard OS X installation or if it requires the xtools package, so this may possibly not work for you.) Open the Terminal and type 'sudo pdisk'. Then, after entering your administrator password, type 'L' (Without the quotes, of course!) as the top-level command. It will give you the size and locations of all partitions on all your disks that are recognized by the system that are partition with the Apple Partition Map, which yours probably are. SInce it only has to read a tiny portion of the beginning of the disk, it will not be affected by the 128GB limit. The names of the partitions may not be the same as their current names in the Finder, but if you know the approxiamate sizes of the various volumes, you can probably figure out which is which. BTW, although pdisk can be a dangerous utility if you use it to alter a disk by editing and writing to it, just looking at what's already there can't do any harm. - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting
After thinking about what I wrote, I believe that you can get the same information with Disk Utility. The volumes are listed in the left-hand column in their order on the disk. If a volume's directory is within the 128GB limit, it should show up as mounted, even though reads and writes to part of the volume may fail (silently??). If a volume's directory is beyond the 128GB limit, it should show up, but as unmountable, since its directory will not be readable. - Aaron Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 02:31:04 -0800 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com From: Aaron aa...@macuser.fastmail.fm Subject: Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting At 18:11 -0800 2009/03/01, tonycd wrote: As for which is first, I don't think the Panther one is #1 (I think it's #3), but I can't be sure because now I can't see the sequence. But, yes... in a masterpiece of poor planning, I think the Panther one is probably the only one that's BIGGER than 128. (Double duh.) - (I'm not sure if pdisk is incluced in the standard OS X installation or if it requires the xtools package, so this may possibly not work for you.) Open the Terminal and type 'sudo pdisk'. Then, after entering your administrator password, type 'L' (Without the quotes, of course!) as the top-level command. It will give you the size and locations of all partitions on all your disks that are recognized by the system that are partition with the Apple Partition Map, which yours probably are. SInce it only has to read a tiny portion of the beginning of the disk, it will not be affected by the 128GB limit. The names of the partitions may not be the same as their current names in the Finder, but if you know the approxiamate sizes of the various volumes, you can probably figure out which is which. BTW, although pdisk can be a dangerous utility if you use it to alter a disk by editing and writing to it, just looking at what's already there can't do any harm. - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Do I really need a new processor?
If you live anywhere that there's much of a used Mac market, you can probably get a Dual 1.0 Quicksilver, or at least a Dual 800, for less than the $250 the upgrade alone costs. And you'd be able to sell or otherwise make good use of your present machine, after integrating whatever is useful into the new one. - Aaron From: Anne Keller-Smith earth...@ptd.net Subject: Re: Do I really need a new processor? Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:10:50 -0500 On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:02 PM, lorensmedb...@hotmail.com wrote: I've got the same machine, the thing that made my 733 quicksilver run like a new computer was installing OWC's 1500ghz 2 mb - L3 processor . The one I got is the NewerTEch MaxPower 7447 Single G4/1.6GHz. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Sawtooth to Supertooth
I don't understand this fascination with CPU upgrade cards, at least for old, slow Macs. Unless you can get one at a substantial discount, you'll be paying more for the upgrade card alone than you would pay for a newer, faster (don't forget bus speed!) used Mac. And, with the latter option, you'll have components from two machines to combine and/or a working old machine to sell or give away. If there's a craigslist in your area, that's probably the best place to look, as well as classifieds from your local newspaper(s). - Aaron Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:13:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sawtooth to Supertooth From: dadadata dadad...@gmail.com To: G3-5 List g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I have a Sawtooth 450mhz with AGP video. Is there any CPU drop-in that will take it to around 600-650mhz? I can do, but don't want to do, the extra wiring tweaks involved in retrofitting a G4 Digital Audio CPU. And I realize there's a 1.xx gig upgrade available; I don't need that extra speed for this machine, which is not my main desktop. All hints Appreciated Much. -- COD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: USB to Firewire conversion
At 09:34 -0800 2009/02/18, Mullin9 wrote: I Have a USB 2.0 external Hard drive. but is real slow on the older USB 1.1 [SNIP] I want to use my FW 400 rather than USB 1.1 (the slow one) for my USB 2.0 external Hard drive You don't say what kind of computer you're using that has USB 1.1. If it's one that you can add a card to, USB 2.0 cards are cheap. (Maybe somebody else can suggest which ones work best with your Mac.) At 10:56 -0700 2009/02/18, Bruce Johnson wrote: The solution is to get a fw external case for your external drive, and transplant the hard drive. Before doing that, you have to know if the drive itself is IDE/PATA or SATA. Moreover, is the drive large enough to be worth the $40 or more you'll have to spend for the case, or should you get a larger, probably SATA, drive for external use? (The question of whether to buy the case and drive separately, or as a unit, is another matter. I lead towards the former.) - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G3 hard drive question
At 07:38 -0800 2009/01/20, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: FirmTek was a true innovator, and it was the creator of most of the early PCI ATA card firmware releases (it did not design the hardware). However, that early FirmTek firmware all has a certain flaw, which flaw was perpetuated throughout the /33, /66, /100 and /133 product families. Perhaps FirmTek didn't fully understand certain important aspects of the Mac, in general, nor the SCSI Manager 4.3, in particular. (I don't claim to fully understand them, either). Whatever the reality, the architectural flaw was repeated even by FirmTek's competitors, most notably ACARD, because what FirmTek did, in error, on its very first product, the ProMax 33, it perpetuated through all of its remaining products. What flaw are you talking about? I've been using a Sonnet ATA/133 card for years, with drives up to 300GB, and have only two problems with it: 1) My DVD burners (LiteOn and Pioneer) won't work off of it, and 2) The drives attached to it don't show up in System Profiler. Are these related to the flaw you're referring to? - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G3 hard drive question
At 12:48 -0600 2009/01/20, Kris Tilford wrote: Someone needs to extract the XPostFacto Helper Disk code and make a stand-alone Boot Helper application that enables all unbootable cards to boot by synchronizing the boot parameters and using an internal HD to start the boot process and then transfer the boot to the unbootable device after the synchronized OS X has initiated the card. This would be a Godsend for using cheap cards to boot from. It would be great if this would let one boot a PPC Mac from a USB external disk, too! - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G3 hard drive question
From: PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:04:43 -0800 On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Clark Martin wrote: t's not the drives, it's the controller card It's the firmware within the controller card, not the controller hardware itself. The LBA48 property, which is required to support drives larger than 131,082 MB, is a protocol extension, not a hardware extension. For LBA24, the card issues one CDB (command data buffer) to the drive. For LBA48, the card issues two CDBs, each one describing 24 bits. Can somebody explain why, while a protocol that allows addressing 2**48 512-byte sectors is called LBA48, one that allows addressing 2**28 512-byte sectors is called LBA24, not LBA28? Apple's G4 firmware can be changed to enable the LBA48 property. No PCI ATA card can be similarly enabled. Which is perhaps one very good reason to stick with Apple's on-mobo ATA controllers. How does the Intech Hicap driver get around the 128-GB limitation without any firmware modification? - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 'Do I Need More Memory?' app Leopard
Another suggestion is to use, iStat Pro, iStat Nano, or iStat Menus. The first two are widgets, the last is an app that places menus for selected functions in the menu bar. - Aaron Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:28:19 -0800 (PST) From: kocho symlkrb...@yahoo.com Use activity monitor instead How can one use it..?I have g5 power mac 2.3ghz DP desktop with tiger OS.. Maybe somebody else has a more fine-tuned suggestion, but here's at least an approximation: Keep Activity Monitor open with the System Memory button highlighted and look at the info in the lower left corner of the window occasionally, especially when your system is acting sluggish. If the total of Free and Inactive memory frequently gets close to 0 MB, more memory may speed things up. - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to convert a ripped movie to MP4?
Another good program is the free MPEG Streamclip. http://www.squared5.com/. It allows you to fine-tune almost everything about the conversion if you want to. - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
External drive to boot iMac G5 - recommendations?
A friend of mine has an iMac G5 (iSight, i think!) and needs an external drive that can be used as a boot drive. (He'd probably prefer it to be at least 500 GB, but that's not essential.) I know that it has to be connected via FireWire, rather than USB. Aside from that, and the fact that most Western Digital My Book models can't boot a PPC Mac, I haven't got much idea what to recommend. Since his internal drive is not working (whether it's fixable or not without replacement is not clear), he would like to get an external bootable drive very quickly, which means probably from a store rather than via the Internet. He lives in Oakland, California (very near San Francisco), so there are plenty of stores! I was thinking of lending him (or selling him) my 250-GB MiniStack, but I'd have to spend time copying my files to another drive before installing an OS on it. It would probably be better if he could just quickly buy a new drive that would be likely to work and be reliable. Please Bcc responses to my email address, so that they'll wind up in my inbox where I'll be sure to notice them. TIA, Aaron P.S. He'll be running Tiger, not Leopard, since he needs Classic compatibility. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 'Do I Need More Memory?' app Leopard
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:28:19 -0800 (PST) From: kocho symlkrb...@yahoo.com Use activity monitor instead How can one use it..?I have g5 power mac 2.3ghz DP desktop with tiger OS.. Maybe somebody else has a more fine-tuned suggestion, but here's at least an approximation: Keep Activity Monitor open with the System Memory button highlighted and look at the info in the lower left corner of the window occasionally, especially when your system is acting sluggish. If the total of Free and Inactive memory frequently gets close to 0 MB, more memory may speed things up. - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
FireWire 800 MDD chimes but won't start up.
My FireWire 800 MDD chimes once when I try to start it, and generally powers up, but does nothing else. The monitor stays black, the little light on the monitor stays amber, and, if I hold down command-option-P-R or command-option-O-F, nothing happens either. I've tried it over and over again with and without a variety of components and cards, all of which work in my Dual 867 MDD. Although both my PRAM batteries probably should be replaced (and I'm about to order them), either one will start up the Dual 867, which is the computer I've been using for a week or so. Any suggestions as to what might be wrong? Power supply? Motherboard? CPU? - Aaron P.S. Please Bcc any response to g3-5-l...@aarons.fastmail.net so that it will also show up in my inbox! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: MDD startup problem and solution, and a question.
Thanks to Dan, moss and Simon Royal for their responses. I did finally manage to test my PRAM battery and it's quite strong -- about 4V according to my meter, which is only a bit inaccurate. I don't remember what motivated me to check it, but I decided to try different RAM configurations, and it seems (tentatively) that one of my 512-MB sticks may be defective, or perhaps incompatible with the rest of my RAM. Anyway, my computer seems to be running a lot more reliably with just the remaining three sticks in it, and 1.5 GB is enough RAM for whatever I do, although I imagine that switching between programs may be faster with more physical RAM. - Aaron My original post: Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:19:20 -0700 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com From: Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sharing this here, since a search of my archive of the list doesn't turn up this info. A couple of days ago, when I was doing various cabling changes inside my FireWire 800 MDD, at one point it wouldn't start up at all. I mean no visual or aural indication of any activity when I pressed the power button in various ways. Then, after other changes, it finally did and then, shortly after in the same configuration, it didn't! To make a long story short, after I had given up and was starting to move my drives and more into my old Dual 867 MDD, a friend came over for help with his Pismo that he was having a problem with.* I was able to do a web search that quickly turned up the solution: ::: When the MDD won't power up, just unplug the power cord for 10 seconds and plug it in again! I realize that if I had done the right thing and unplugged the power cord before working inside the computer, the problem wouldn't have arisen during that process, but it might have shown up the next time I shut down and tried to restart after I finished working on it. QUESTION: Is it likely that this strange behavior presages any more serious problems? If so, what can I do about it beforehand? Also, (1) can I check the PRAM battery without removing it and (2) how does one remove it? I'm guessing the PRAM battery may be bad because, when I reconnect after disconnection, I get the message about the computer's date being too old. (Since the computer automatically connects to the internet, the date time get corrected quickly.) Note, though, that the same person who reported the solution above also said that replacing his PRAM battery, although it solved other problems, didn't solve the startup problem. - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Data Rescue II: urgent questions
My post of a few hours ago, Data Rescue II: clone to disk image?, can be ignored for now. A sparse image seemed to work, but the problem with cloning the 20-GB drive was the same as the problem I'm having now with a clone of a 250-GB drive, this time to a new 500-GB drive: Here's a snapshot of one moment in the cloning, as described in the progress box: Copying from /dev/rdisk4s3 to /dev/rdisk3 Copied 28.9 MB of 232.8 GB (block 59136) Copied good: 0 bytes, skipped bad: 0 bytes [I'm curious why both these numbers remained at 0!] Estimated time remaining: 5020 hours Here are the changed lines of info a while later: Copied 135.6 MB of 232.8 GB (block 277760) Estimated time remaining: 6392 hours There was a moment when the amount copied increased rapidly, but then it went back to copying just a few MB per minute. Here are some lines from ScanEngineLog.txt at various times: 223.334 Clone Copying 249925094400 bytes from /dev/rdisk4s3 to /dev/rdisk3 232.753 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 0 Then there were no more such errors until 263.014 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 108 272.228 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 10a The errors continued for every 128-KB block up to 1616.088 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 228 1625.436 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 22a Then there were no more such errors for a short while, timewise, but with the reading going very fast. The errors resumed with 1643.633 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 7f0 1653.152 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 7f2 and continued to 2729.264 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 8bc 2738.434 Clone Can't read 131072 @ 8be when I gave up and aborted the clone. The log ended with 2738.443 Clone Copied 146800640 bytes with 252 read errors, 0 write errors 2738.445 Clone Clone failed So, over 100 MB were apparently successfully copied, with 31.5 MB unreadable, at least when reading in 128-KB (131072-byte) chunks. (Does one get better recovery reading in smaller chunks?) [I'm guessing that the numbers at the start of each line are the time in seconds from the start of the process -- the numbers do begin with 0.000!. This would be consistent with my own rough estimates of lapsed time.] I'm wondering if it's possible to make Data Rescue give up reading much more quickly (with way fewer retries) when there are errors. If not, are the retries forced by the OS? If Data Rescue can't do it, is there any program that can, perhaps one running as root? Suggestions will be much appreciated, the sooner the better! - Thanks in advance, - Aaron --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: plist files
At 00:23 -0500 2008/09/10, Kris Tilford wrote: en0 should be an add-on ethernet, the Apple built-in should be designated as Built-in Ethernet. The only way I see it being possible for an Apple built-in ethernet to be designated en0 is if you're using an unsupported OS version on older hardware. Under both Tiger and Leopard, the built-in ethernet port on my G4 FW800 shows up in Network Utility as en0. My Belkin wireless card shows up as en1. This is true whether I have anything connected to the built-in port or not. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Anyone using Beige G3's much anymore
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 20:07:20 -0400 From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:28:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Gukumatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm still using my beige 300mhz regularly, [...] Uses of the trusty beast include:- [...] video recording using the personality card, I recode the footage on a different machine, These were and are my key questions: What software do you use for video capture? What quality capture does the personality card allow? What video format(s) does it produce? What bit rate(s)? Do you need or use any special hardware? If you can point me to any good web pages that answer these questions, that's as good as a direct answer. - Aaron [...] An iOmega Buzz is about the right era for the machine. Video will be small though. But better than none. You can take in audio too and use the video editor to redirect the format. Or you may get it to work with freeware audacity. My interest in using my Beige G3 for video capture flows from its having the personality card. It's been a while since I've used the machine, but the card in it is the best of the variants. (Is it called Wings?) My questions were all about what I could accomplish with that card. An old version of Adobe Premiere 5.1c will do for editing video. Should be cheap. I have access to plenty of video editing software. But I don't know what format the personality card outputs, so I don't know which conversion and editing programs will work with it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Anyone using Beige G3's much anymore
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:28:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Gukumatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm still using my beige 300mhz regularly, I feel I have to as I bought it in 98 when it was top of the range and I want to get every last pennies worth of use from it. I tried to upgrade it to osX but it wasn't having any of it so now it's back to 9.2.2 Uses of the trusty beast include:- scanning using my scsi umax, running my Micro-Modular synth, as a hard disc recorder for my studio, video recording using the personality card, I recode the footage on a different machine, What software do you use for video capture? What quality capture does the personality card allow? What video format(s) does it produce? What bit rate(s)? Do you need or use any special hardware? If you can point me to any good web pages that answer these questions, that's as good as a direct answer. - Aaron and finally as part of my render farm. As I mentioned earlier it doesn't like osX but apart from that it's given sterling service for nearly 10 years! guku --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
