Re: Firewire Sucks on a Ti500?

2004-05-13 Thread Eugene Lee
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:03:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : on 5/12/04 7:41 PM, JH wrote: : : I don't know about the Firewire performance, but I can tell you that : with a 500mhz TiBook the FW is really slow. I mean way slower than : Pismo, slower even than a Lombard with a PC

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-13 Thread Mikael Byström
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just make sure it's compatible with the Wallstreet. The Wllst is PC-66 RAM, which was all going to be correct for the Wallstreet. Any reseller who doesn't guarantee that isn't worth buying from. But I'm buying second hand from private users for my

Looking for a PowerBook icon

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Main
I'm trying to find an icon for the 15 Aluminum PowerBook. The various icon sites I've searched (XIcons, ResExcellence, Icon Factory) have lots of PB G4 icons, but so far they're all for the Titanium PB, with the dark grey keyboard. (The only 15 AlBook icon I've found is in the Magnum Opus set,

Re: Woe Befalls SuperDuper, CarbonCopyCloner, and Disk Utility

2004-05-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 12/05/04 23:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, any clues as to what causes CCC to hang and how to stop it? C ould the speed of the HD's be a factor? My Pismo has a 7200rpm drive, while the Ti has a 4200 rpm drive. Any ideas? That would be most likely some disk

Re: Woe Befalls SuperDuper, CarbonCopyCloner, and Disk Utility

2004-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/12/04 11:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried cloning again and again via SuperDuper, CarbonCopyCloner, and Disk Utility. Frustrating: All I encountered were hangs, errors and issues preventing cloning from that Pismo to that Ti. Gave up and now trying Synchronize

OSX utilities (was Woe Befalls)

2004-05-13 Thread Erik Ness
At 9:19 AM -0400 5/13/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of course, I always repair permissions and run Disk Utility I'm new to OSX. Can anyone recommend utility programs or a good site going over the basics in this brave new world? Cheers, Erik -- ### Erik Ness

Re: Woe Befalls SuperDuper, CarbonCopyCloner, and Disk Utility

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Fuller
So, any clues as to what causes CCC to hang and how to stop it? C ould the speed of the HD's be a factor? My Pismo has a 7200rpm drive, while the Ti has a 4200 rpm drive. Any ideas? I ran into a similar issue with CCC and cloning my internal powerbook drive to an external 2.5 laptop drive.

Re: Pismo Hard drive problems

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Fuller
On May 12, 2004, at 9:59 PM, Pat Heidingsfelder wrote: Hey, thanks, well not thanks!! But needed info! Pretty bad timing too! Planing a trip for next Weds.! I will be off to look for a new drive, and will try the freezer trick. be sure to call IBM and check on the warranty on that drive

Re: Pismo Hard drive problems

2004-05-13 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
be sure to call IBM and check on the warranty on that drive before you chuck it. Many of the travelstar drives have a 3 year warranty. Even if you need to purchase a new drive sooner, you can have that one fixed under warranty and get a working drive back to use in an external case, or sell

Re: OSX utilities (was Woe Befalls)

2004-05-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 13/05/04 09:26, Erik Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:19 AM -0400 5/13/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of course, I always repair permissions and run Disk Utility I'm new to OSX. Can anyone recommend utility programs or a good site going over the basics in this brave new

Re: PB G4 fan replacement, options?

2004-05-13 Thread Jeff Hubatka
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikael=20Bystr=F6m?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PB G4 fan replacement, options? Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:41:13 +0200 I'll soon have a PB G4/400 that have a fully functional fan, but it won't spin up in time, sitting quiet for most of the time. Therefore the machine gets

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-13 Thread John Slavin
On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 08:12 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 13/05/04 07:52, Mikael Byström at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just make sure it's compatible with the Wallstreet. The Wllst is PC-66 RAM, which was all going to be correct for the

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-13 Thread Mike Kauspedas
Its a density problem. The WS will read 128MB PC133 as long as the density matches, you need 6 layer memory for it to work right. I think... thats how it works with older PC's... Mike On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 08:25 AM, John Slavin wrote: On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 08:12 AM, Laurent

Re: Panther Reboot

2004-05-13 Thread Frank Cornew
Thanks much for the feedback. Didn't work. Assume that you refer to the library prefs in the user directory. Didn't see that they got replaced after deletion (replaced manually from backup archive), even after reboot into barebones and boot into user. Somewhat concerned about nuking the

Re: Pismo Hard drive problems UPDATE

2004-05-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 13/05/04 13:24, Pat Heidingsfelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to the person who made it known the travelstars have a 3 year warranty!! I purchased this Pismo used over at powerbook central. The previous owner upgraded the HD, and the warranty is still valid until September!!!

ti500 firewire issues

2004-05-13 Thread illovox
on 5/13/04 7:26 AM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I don't know about the Firewire performance, but I can tell you that : with a 500mhz TiBook the FW is really slow. I mean way slower than : Pismo, slower even than a Lombard with a PC card. : : I dodn't know that. Why is that?

Woe Befalls CCC, SuperDuper, Disk Utility and Synchronize X Plus and its ilk--More Questions

2004-05-13 Thread illovox
on 12/05/04 23:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, any clues as to what causes CCC to hang and how to stop it? C ould the speed of the HD's be a factor? My Pismo has a 7200rpm drive, while the Ti has a 4200 rpm drive. Any ideas? That would be most likely some disk

Re: ti500 firewire issues

2004-05-13 Thread Dean
This URL dosent directly answer the question but I did find it interesting. http://www.barefeats.com/fire20.html On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 12:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/13/04 7:26 AM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I don't know about the Firewire performance, but I can

Re: Woe Befalls CCC, SuperDuper, Disk Utility and Synchronize X Plus and its ilk--More Questions

2004-05-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 13/05/04 15:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/05/04 23:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, any clues as to what causes CCC to hang and how to stop it? C ould the speed of the HD's be a factor? My Pismo has a 7200rpm drive, while the Ti has a 4200

Lombard is acting flaky. PMU malfunction?

2004-05-13 Thread Ted Mann
Lombard acting flaky; PMU problems? Hello! I have a problem with my Lombard and wondered if anyone had any advice. It has been acting flaky over the past week or so after a loose screw in the case caused it to short out. (Yes, that was really dumb of me…) It will boot up just fine after

USB external hard drive on Lombard

2004-05-13 Thread David Norlander
I am trying to use an ACOM 80 Gbyte USB/Firewire hard drive on a G3 Lombard running OS9.0 i downloaded USB mass storage support 1.3.5 from Apple per the ACOM instructions. I can see that a device is connected to the USB port using the Apple system profiler but can't get any farther. I know the

So What's the deal with MCE

2004-05-13 Thread Dan Palka
I cannot seem to find an MCE CD-RW expansion bay drive anywhere for my Wallstreet now a days. They don't make them, and nobody carries them. Anyone know where I might be able to find one? Even more likely, has anyone ever made their own device - by buying a drive from the Manufacturer and

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-13 Thread Nils
You guys are getting closer.. There are 2 issues here. One at a time. First, a WallStreet II runs a 66MHz System Bus. That means that you can run PC66, PC100 or PC133 memory. The rating shows the speed that the memory has been certified to run at. A piece of PC66 memory run on a 100MHz system

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-13 Thread Mikael Byström
Mike, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The WS will read 128MB PC133 as long as the density matches, you need 6 layer memory for it to work right. 6 layer? How do Memory Pros and makers discern between these and others? Noone knows this? My top 256 is a PC-133. It works great. -- G-Books is

Re: Panther Reboot

2004-05-13 Thread Mikael Byström
Frank, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sure miss conflict catcher For the Asteroids game I take it? BTW, did you lift out all of your Library pr made a new user? You can search for corrupted prefs with this in the terminal (On one line only): find ~/Library/Preferences /Library/Preferences -type f

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/05/04 22:37, Nils at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are getting closer.. Well, for my part, the reason I suggested to get 66MHz chip was that the density was likely to be smaller with those older chips. -Laurent. --