Don't be too quick to damn Samsung drives. I put a brand new 60gb
5400rpm Samsung drive in my wife's Pismo last spring. The drive has
performed flawlessly since then.
I'm not damning Samsung, not at all.
Samsung was (perhaps still is) the value leader in state-of-the-art
fluid dynamic
Alas, the PowerBook's IDE chip goes Huh? I don't understand what
you're saying, I'll just ignore you for now, I'm busy.
This is primarily a Lombard and Pismo issue. And, those Lombards and
Pismos which are provided with drives which don't auto-negotiate
properly, which may include the latest
100/133 mhz
shouldn't really make that much of a difference due to backwards
compatibility, insofar as I understand it.
There's industry standard backward compatibility and then there's Mac
standard backward compatibility.
Wallstreets will not accept many high density PC100 and PC133 sticks.
I had to conclude that either they were incredibly slipshod (how hard
is it to check out a keyboard?) or they knowingly sent me defective
merchandise and were hoping I wouldn't keep after them to correct the
problem. I have not done business with them since.
Nor have I.
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And if you get serious, they think they can bully you with legalese, all of
which is BS.
Wegener, himself, filed a statement with false claims with a Listmom,
claiming, in turn, that my claims were false, and resulting in me
In a message dated 11/25/05 6:38:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do pismos really run a lot cooler than wallstreets?
Yes, very much so. And, they are a lot lighter, too.
If you must have the most current Mac OS possible, the Pismo is your
machine; otherwise the Lombard (lacks built-in
The current Samsung, Hitachi/IBM and Toshiba high-capacity drives are
known not to work with Lombard and Pismo 'books.
My wife has a 400mhz Pismo with a 60gb Samsung MP0603H drive that has
worked just fine since the first day we put it in.
Neither the Samsung 40 GB nor the Samsung 60 GB
People have written that some newer drives (ATA6) are not compatible
with the Pismo. What is the symptom of these drives when they don't
negotiatid to ATA5?
No devices on the ATA bus will work ... at all!
You cannot boot from the CD/DVD, even if that CD/DVD contains a system
installer, or
I just bought a Seagate Momentus 40 gig 5400 RPM/8 MB cache from
Macgurus and it works fine on my Lombard.
Good to know.
So far, late Hitachi/IBMs, late Toshibas, and all Samsungs are known not
to work with Lombards and Pismos, even if these very drives will work in
PBs earlier than Lombards
Is there a plausible way to attach a SCSI device to a Pismo?
Adaptec made SCSI PCMCIA cards which may work.
Those made for specific vendors of external drives usually will not work.
But, the Adaptec generic solution, which is also available in an
ultra-wide version, should work.
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I'm contemplating trading up from a Lombard to a Pismo and would like
to know if I could swap the RAM from my Lombard into a Pismo.
Lombard to Pismo is OK as long as the SODIMM RAM is PC100 or better.
Pismo to Lombard is often not OK as the same problems with the RAM
controller in the
Note: make sure they come with the black BEZEL. This sometimes isn't
included, as people upgrading their G4 powerbooks just reuse the one
from their original drives.
You can often find these drives cheaper on ebay, but OWC is a good
store and offers a good 1 year warranty.
I believe this
Is this above-mentioned replacement drive an internal or external? I
have always been under the impression that replacing anything on a
laptop is much more risky (as in, easy to screw up?)...
A DVR-110 is an EIDE/UATA drive, and needs an external Firewire, USB or
Firewire/USB case.
The
Which version of OS X are we talking about?
10.3.9.
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The DVD Decoder board IS NOT supported under OS X. This piece is used
for watching DVD movies. It works fine under OS 9.
A hardware decoder is necessary under 9, on the Lombard.
A software decoder is used under X, on the Lombard.
With a third-party video card on a PCI bus Mac, software
In doing some Google searching, I have found several
sites which claim that the Pismo can be upgraded to a total
of 1 GB using two 512 MB cards.
Correct.
PC100 or better is required, but just about the only 512 MB SODIMMs
available these days will be PC133, which is also downward compatible
Does the DVD decoder on the lombard motherboard work under X ?
If you mean the built-in decoder on the 400 MHz models, absolutely. (I
cannot comment on the 300 MHz models).
You may need to use PatchBurn if you have updated your media bay to
include a CD/DVD-ROM-R-R/W drive.
With the super
So you can buy one of these mechanisms and swap it with the old one
on the housing ?
Absolutely.
Just make sure it is a 12.7mm model and that it has a universal 50 pin
miniature connector, as all of them now do.
The Lombard/Pismo bezel will not fit any current drive, so there will be
a
I thought the DVD DECODER was for reading movies ?
Why does a DVD DECODER impact writing DVDs ?
Obviously, I volunteered more informantion than you asked for.
My use of my Lombard and Pismos is authoring (writing) and verifying
(reading) DVDs, almost equally.
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Does the decoder chip work under X ?
Very much so ... as I stated in my initial reply.
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A mis-seated video cable ?
Most likely.
This little beast has been the cause of more than one Wallstreet being
tossed into the bit bucket.
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Is RAM used in Lombard the same stuff that goes in Pismo? My Mom's
Lombard hard drive just died, and it makes more sense to buy a new
machine at this point (case is in brutal shape) than to replace the
drive. I'm hoping to pick the carcass before we bury it.
Yes and no.
Early Wallstreet
It could but it depends on chip density. Pismo can use higher density memory
chips that sometimes older memory managers in the Lombard and Wallstreet can
fully recognize.
Mostly, the Lombard and Wallstreet memory managers cannot accept higher
density DRAM chips.
Watch out for double-sided
Therefore I purchased both a 128 MB and a low-profile 256 MB RAM chip
(from different manufacturers). However, in whatever configuration
(128, 192, 256, 320 or 384 MB), or in whatever slot, the Lombard
crashes during installation . Sometimes it gets pretty far along the
process, sometimes
Specifically, failure of the drives to properly negotiate down to the
lower AT specification expected, and required by the Lombard and the
Pismo.
Again, which means what ? It runs slow ? It doesn't work ?
The machine will lock up, and fail to get past the flashing icon.
Initializing the
I've documented those which are not sold by OW, but which I have
specifically tested for compatibility with Lombard and Pismo machines.
I wasn't able to find anything on OWC, can you provide links to these lists
for us all to benefit ?
Here's the exact text contained in the OWC warning ...
Surely, for about the same price, you could get a brand new CDRW module?
Given the track record of those pismo drives, I'd think twice about
paying even $70 for a refurbished one.
LOL!
A brand-new, compatible super drive, which includes two-layer writing,
can be had for $105 or a tad more.
It's slow, like Nasa reaching Mars, but it runs well. I ended up
installing with no extra apps and no options, just the needed files I
couldn't uncheck. Worked like a charm. Even got it to 10.2.8. Now to find
an old copy of iLife that may run on this.
10.3.9 works OK on several of my WSs,
Possibly, except for the smart compression algorithm.
Is this from experience with the new Toast? Are you saying it
doesn't have compression or that the algorithm isn't smart?
The product blurb does say NEW! Compress and copy an entire 9 GB
dual-layer DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB
Does xpostfacto deal with the 8 gig limit as least in x 10.2 0r 10.3 ?
This limit is a hardware restriction of Old World machines.
Beige and earlier desktops and Wallstreet and earlier laptops have an 8GB
limitation for the boot partition.
BW and later desktops and Lombard and later laptops
Of course you'll want a bigger HD also but ince the transfer rate is slow I
wouldn't recommend paying extra for a 7200, the 4200/5400 would be fine.
Also be careful of ATA6 HD's as they appear to not work in these old PB
models.
WS I and II will both accept at least some ATA-6 HDs. I use
I've heard the Mainstreets don't have this info on the bottom.
Correct ... none do.
G3 Series is about all they say.
The displays are interchangeable, but the motherboards and the CPUs are
not.
13 screen 292 MHz/83 MHz bus machines (WS Is) were made.
With the WS II, the as built
I bought Popcorn shortly after the arrival of the 12 1.5GHz PB; and
now I looked and it seems like they rolled some of the popcorn
features into the newest Toast... from the product blurbs anyway...
Possibly, except for the smart compression algorithm.
If you are only doing DVDs, then all
If there are all sorts of these slot loading drives out there, does
anyone know why I can't take one of these $50 drives and put it in a G3 iMac
or a Cube?All of the places that sell replacement slot drives for these
want a minimum of $129.
$45-$55 is for a half height 5.25 drive, suitable
Actually the Pismo will burn DVDs okay, just at slower speeds.
I did not test that. Perhaps I will, later.
4X has been confirmed to work using a UJ-845.
My 2X confirmation was using a DVR-K05.
I have no reason to doubt that the DVR-K05 will do 4X as well.
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I would like to know if it is possible to replace the CD-ROM with one
of these two types of drives?
CD-ROM drives are now completely obsolete.
Replacements, which are generally slot loading and 12.7mm, are usually
CD-ROM-R-R/W and DVD-ROM-R-R/W, often including dual-layer DVD
The problem might be that your DVD burner is too recent, too
powerful, etc.
Posible, as these are very fast drives, and will burn a dual-layer DVD at
2.4X, and a single-layer DVD at 8X.
Those date rates are just too high for the flimsy interconnection
provided to the Lombard and Pismo media
It definitely will not do a DVD-R or R/W, most likely on account of
imperfect grounding or other flaws in the electrical interface from
the drive to the motherboard.
Actually the Pismo will burn DVDs okay, just at slower speeds.
I did not test that. Perhaps I will, later.
Depends on your
Actually the Pismo will burn DVDs okay, just at slower speeds.
I did not test that. Perhaps I will, later.
The 2X write test with the Pioneer DVR-K05 and the Pismo worked perfectly.
2X write was explicitly selected, overriding best write rate, although
it appeared that the actual writing took
I have never successfully created a DVD, in toto, but I have
created partial
DVDs.
The problem might be that your DVD burner is too recent, too
powerful, etc.
Posible, as these are very fast drives, and will burn a dual-layer DVD at
2.4X, and a single-layer DVD at 8X.
Those date rates
The time to do such compression on a 450 MHz mac
There isn't a free package to do such compression for OS X, is there?
Mac The Ripper is free; Popcorn isn't.
Since Popcorn can made duplicates from DVDs, burn DVDs from images of
same, and can convert from multi-layer to single-layer using an
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Obviously the first thing I need is the DVD burner. Probably will go
with the internal. But I was wondering if I had enough horsepower to
accomplish this. Anybody out there burning DVDs on a Pismo? What
upgrades would help the
But I wanted to clarify: does the Pioneer
also BURN DVD+R disks? I think that may make a difference. The
Superdrive in my 12 Al book does not burn DVD+R. It's the Matshita
UJ-825.
The Pioneer DVR-K05/K15 will indeed record [ * ] + DVDs.
The Panasonic (misnamed Matshita on account of
I wanted to know if movies I recorded from the TV to DVD+R disks
could be read okay on the Al Book. Oddly, I can't find the specs
anywhere, so I was hoping to find someone who has actually done this
and can provide the info from personal experience.
I changed the drive to a +/- superdrive
With the process of de-encrypting the DVD, are you sure that it doesn't
require a G4? Just wondering...
Works on a G3.
All my Mac The Ripping is done on a G3/450 Blue and White, and it and
Roxio Popcorn have never made a coaster.
However, the same suite on my G3/400 Pismo has never made a
I don't think it is that. I can rip fine with my G3 ibook 600.
I can rip with a Wallstreet, a Lombard, and a Pismo. All day and all
night. 100 percent success.
I cannot successfully burn a usable disk in any of those, however, and
the drive is fully supported with PatchBurn, as necessary,
Quick question. I have a G4/1.33 12 with Superdrive. Would it read
DVD+R disks with movies burnt using DVD Recorder connected to TV?
Apple spec'd its drives before + media became popular, or perhaps even
available.
After I replaced my OEM DVD-CD-ROM drive with a generic DVD-CD-ROM-R-R/W
I was thinking of getting a Philips DVD Recorder that burns to DVD+R
and +RW only. Great deal, but only if it works!
I've sold lots of cdrw and some dvdrw drives over the last few years.
If there is one brand I would suggest you stay away from, it is
Phillips. I have seen more failed
I just purchased and installed an 80Gb Travelstar from Newegg.com for a
total price of $112 including shippi;ng.
Lombard and Pismo machines have issues with their EIDE/UATA controller
chips which mandate that the attached drives be fully able to negotiate
down from ATA-6.
The Samsungs, some
Many Matshita tray-loading DVD-R burners from the UJ-810/811/etc.
series can use the original Matshita bezel from the DVD read only
drive. Both have 3 small screws and 2 line up perfetcly; you can
either leave the 3rd screw out (the tray still works fine) or, as
some people have done,
I will say the lombard is obsolete since it can't install 10.4 only
10.3.9 and lower.
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The Matshita SR-8174-C drive and sled (you'll need both) is the other
major OEM drive that was used on the Pismo and will fit perfectly.
The SR-8174-C 6X Mfgd 2000 (Pismo) and the SR-8173-C ?X Mfgd 1999
(Lombard) both seem to work well.
I've replaced both with up-to-date writeable and
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My 3rd LG (POS!!!) CD/DVD drive has gone south.. Does anyone know if
the Mat unit (drive and sled) is a perfect match for the Pismo as a
replacement?
The MATSHITA (Panasonic) drive in the machine is obsolete, and Panasonic
I second the endorsement for DMS.
Great service. Fast, inexpensive shipping.
Used to price match other vendors, not sure if they still do.
Never had a problem with their RAM.
From my experience, low profile 256 MB SODIMMs which are compatible with
the Wallstreet and Lombard are difficult to
RAM for a WS is dead cheap these days on Ebay. Check out a seller
named Ramdirect.
Err. I came up snake eyes re: that seller...
Ramdirect presently has twenty units of 256 MB *standard profile* SODIMMs
listed, at under $40 apiece.
Reference Item # 5801568854.
I believe these are custom
i have two ram slots, i can put 256 in both max.,
Yup.
the lower slot should be low profile DIMM,
Yup.
i should use SDRAM memory of 100Mhz or greater PC 100, and use ram with
2-2-2 speed...
You got me there, with the 2-2-2 stuff.
oh yeah, one more question, if i use only one 256 card
Needless to say, I like the improved functionality [ the UJDA-330 ] could
provide.
Practically all of Panasonic's drives have been discontinued.
Particularly the UJDAs, but also some UJs.
The most easily obtainable Panasonic drive is the UJ-845-B.
This is a slot-loader, only, and takes +/-
On the Lombard and Pismo the expansion bay drives were set to Master.
Yes, and the standard Matsushita (Panasonic) SR-8173-C CD-DVD-ROM drive
has a switch which can select Master, Slave or Cable Select, by a slide
switch.
Master is indeed the correct choice.
If you're buying a replacement
What's the difference between old and new world?
Old World has the ROM toolbox in true ROM, and it resides there.
New World has the ROM toolbox in RAM, and that toolbox is actually loaded
from disk and copied into RAM, where it resides.
Old World has an 8 GB (or first 8 GB) limitation on the
I was given a Powerbook G3 which
is running Mac OS 8.1. It has a 2Gb hard drive and 160Mb RAM. It is all
Black (black keyboard) and the apple logo on the top is white.
Bronze keyboard models (1999, AKA, Lombard) were the first New World
PBs.
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