Re: Freeware Memory Tester?

2010-08-29 Thread rogerd095
On Aug 26, 11:46 pm, Eric Volker evol...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a freeware RAM tester? http://www.kelleycomputing.net/rember -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power

HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread Cliff Rediger
All my external HD (or the enclosures I don't remember) came with a strip of yellow transparent tape for securing the thermal sensor to the HD. It doesn't like reuse. Where can one purchase tape such tape? Or, what alternatives are acceptable? thank you Cliff -- You received this message

Re: BW refuses to load system, and now refuses to boot

2010-08-29 Thread Ashgrove
First of all, thanks to all the people who chimed in by email! What a community! :-) Sunday update: I put in the smallest ATA drive I could find (an 80GB), and started up again. It immediately found the disk, asked to initialize it, and did. I used the Drive Setup utility to partition it (8, 25,

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread John Carmonne
On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: All my external HD (or the enclosures I don't remember) came with a strip of yellow transparent tape for securing the thermal sensor to the HD. It doesn't like reuse. Where can one purchase tape such tape? Or, what alternatives are

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread Baha Ata
any online international seller for that? 2010/8/29 John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: All my external HD (or the enclosures I don't remember) came with a strip of yellow transparent tape for securing the thermal sensor to the HD. It

Re: Freeware Memory Tester?

2010-08-29 Thread Eric Volker
Just wanted to pass on thanks to Jim and John for the suggestion of memtest. I ran it for one pass that took nearly an hour to complete. The new RAM passed with flying colors, and I haven't had any problems with the G5 since the new memory was installed. I downloaded memtest before I realized

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Baha Ata wrote: any online international seller for that? 2010/8/29 John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: All my external HD (or the enclosures I don't remember) came with a strip of yellow transparent tape for

Re: Essential utilities for G4 powermac

2010-08-29 Thread Eric Volker
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Matevž Markovič ivwcorporation.mat...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html Here you can see all open firmware commands (remember, that is forth environment, therefore you can define your own commands from the existing ones). I found

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: the thermal sensor to the HD. Are you sure? I've never heard of external HD thermal sensors, and I don't know of any software that would make use of such a sensor? I've seen Kapton tape holding down wires for LED activity light wires in

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 29, 12:25 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Are you sure? [the thermal sensor to the HD.] I've never heard of external HD thermal sensors, and I   don't know of any software that would make use of such a sensor? Once again, my novice status has been flushed out. I'm not sure

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 29, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: Once, one my enclosure fans seemed to be over-running and someone suggested that I may have the sensor taped in the wrong place. Correct place, they said, is in the center of the HD, and that seemed to help. So, maybe it's the Enclosure Temp

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread Jim Scott
On Aug 29, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 29, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: Once, one my enclosure fans seemed to be over-running and someone suggested that I may have the sensor taped in the wrong place. Correct place, they said, is in the center of the HD, and

HD transfer

2010-08-29 Thread R. Wayne Eitzen
ATA HD transfer from MDD 1.42Ghz G4 to 2.5Ghz G5 late 2005. What is required? Is it even possible? -- R. Wayne Eitzen -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is

Re: USB stick refuses partition map

2010-08-29 Thread Nestamicky
On 28/08/10 7:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: If it's a Sandisk one, they've got that stupid extra partition that requires their own utility to undo. ..and if that's the case, search online, there's a utility that deletes it. I made sure I deleted it on all my Sandisk, and can't understand why

Re: HD transfer

2010-08-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:56 PM, R. Wayne Eitzen wrote: ATA HD transfer from MDD 1.42Ghz G4 to 2.5Ghz G5 late 2005. What is required? Is it even possible? http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040323102929212 Personally, this sounds like a bad idea. I'd use an SATA HD in the G5,

Re: HD transfer

2010-08-29 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 29-08-2010 21:56, R. Wayne Eitzen, wlka...@gmail.com, wrote: ATA HD transfer from MDD 1.42Ghz G4 to 2.5Ghz G5 late 2005. What is required? Is it even possible? No, not as an intern HD, because the G5 is SATA only. IMHO, the best way to use that G4 HD with the G5 is an ext. HD-case with a

two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Engle
I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? J. Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Ipad

2010-08-29 Thread PETE
If I had a question about an Ipad, what's the correct list to ask the question.TIA.Peter, Los Angeles, Ca. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at

Re: Ipad

2010-08-29 Thread Daggett Ken
On 29 Aug 2010, at 18:21:41 PDT, PETE wrote: If I had a question about an Ipad, what's the correct list to ask the question.TIA. --- Well an iPad is certainly not a Mac, and not low end as I think of such things. Ken -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Daggett Ken
On 29 Aug 2010, at 17:51:45 PDT, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hmmm. As I understand the term USB hub, it

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 29, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? You can't plug two different running Macs into the same hub

Re: Ipad

2010-08-29 Thread Jim Scott
On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:21 PM, PETE wrote: If I had a question about an Ipad, what's the correct list to ask the question.TIA. Peter, Los Angeles, Ca. There's one at apple.com, and if you Google iPad forum you'll find a bunch more. But you won't find one at the Low End Mac web site,

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread mark ray
I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hmmm. As I understand the term USB hub, it is a device that breaks a single host port into

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 29, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hubs only have one device port, so only one mac at a time;

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Aug 29, 2010, at 7:46 PM, mark ray wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hmmm. As I understand the term USB hub, it is a

Re: Ipad

2010-08-29 Thread Bruce
Hello Peter, The MacBook Group on Yahoo includes iPad and iPhone also. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/macbook/join Bruce = On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:21 PM, PETE wrote: If I had a question about an Ipad, what's the correct list to ask the question.TIA. Peter, Los Angeles, Ca. -- You

Re: HD thermal sensor tape ?

2010-08-29 Thread Cliff Rediger
Exactly which type of external enclosure are we talking about here? On Aug 29, 1:47 pm, Jim Scott jesco...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the Newer Tech MiniStack, Yes, that's the enclosure of which I speak. Cliff -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread admin
Reminds of the olden days of serial switchers. Of course, that was we could pnly use one serial device at a time on that port. What is now years ago, I bought a Firewire Compact Flash device. USB has sure transcended Firewire in many ways?? -- You received this message because you are a

Re: iPad

2010-08-29 Thread Jackie Klinnert
PETE sabaoth...@yahoo.com Aug 29 06:21PM -0700 If I had a question about an Ipad, what's the correct list to ask the question.TIA.Peter, Los Angeles, Ca. There's an iPad Yahoogroup: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iPad/ Jackie -- You received this message because you are a

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 29, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I'll have to find one of those USB 2.0 Manual Switch Share Hubs I have had very good experience using a Kensington ShareCentral 5 for such arrangements, even with mixed Mac/Windows systems. http://us.kensington.com/html/15706.html Here

Re: USB stick refuses partition map

2010-08-29 Thread Jim McGee
On Aug 29, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Nestamicky wrote: On 28/08/10 7:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: If it's a Sandisk one, they've got that stupid extra partition that requires their own utility to undo. ..and if that's the case, search online, there's a utility that deletes it. I made sure I deleted