Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-27 Thread mkehoe
To Bruce and others - Well, I transferred over all the hard drives, including the boot-up drive, and except for some temporary issues that seem related to a PCI firewire card I tried to install at the same time, all seems to have gone well. Thanks for the advice and encouragement! Mira

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-26 Thread Nestamicky
On 9/24/09 10:42 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: I know someone who DID add memory to a running G4 tower. Amazingly it all lived. It crashed immediately, but on a restart it all worked. The beauty of macs! I wonder what would happen on a PC? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-24 Thread Clark Martin
Charles Lenington wrote: Now of course there is the on purpose power up drive , quicky pull power and drop on floor/ The noise is fun. We had a bunch of under 1 gig hospital content drives to erase/destroy. My daughter's boyfriend tried to create a whole new category (or at least add

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Clark Martin wrote: Charles Lenington wrote: Now of course there is the on purpose power up drive , quicky pull power and drop on floor/ The noise is fun. We had a bunch of under 1 gig hospital content drives to erase/destroy. My daughter's boyfriend

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-24 Thread Clark Martin
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Clark Martin wrote: Charles Lenington wrote: Now of course there is the on purpose power up drive , quicky pull power and drop on floor/ The noise is fun. We had a bunch of under 1 gig hospital content drives to erase/destroy. My

Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread mkehoe
I need to move my internal hard drives, including the start-up drive from a G4 dual 867mHz to a G4 1.25mHz. They are from the same line, August 2002. I have made a clone of the start-up as a back-up copy. Can I just move the hard drives from the 867 to the 1.25, and boot up the 1.25, or is

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Nestamicky
On 9/23/09 6:38 AM, Mel wrote: I've swapped boot HDs and booted the receiving CPU without incident several times among various G4s Mel, did your app worked after this? Would transferring just the application folder from one machine to another result in the same?

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Mel
complete backups. --- On Wed, 9/23/09, Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote: From: Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 6:06 AM On 9/23/09 6:38 AM, Mel wrote: I've swapped boot

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread mkehoe
Both are MDD dual G4 from this line: CPU CPU: PowerPC 7455 G4 CPU Speed: 2x867 MHz/2x1.0 GHz/2x1.25 GHz FPU: integrated Bus Speed: 166 MHz Data Path Width: 64 bit Address Width: 32 bit ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM RAM Type: PC2700 DDR Minimum RAM Speed: 333 MHz Onboard RAM: 0

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:42 AM, mkehoe wrote: I need to move my internal hard drives, including the start-up drive from a G4 dual 867mHz to a G4 1.25mHz. They are from the same line, August 2002. I have made a clone of the start-up as a back-up copy. Yep, no issues at all. The drive in my

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Nestamicky wrote: On 9/23/09 6:38 AM, Mel wrote: I've swapped boot HDs and booted the receiving CPU without incident several times among various G4s Mel, did your app worked after this? In my case all apps worked...a HD is a 'total brian transplant' and OS X

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Nestamicky wrote: Would transferring just the application folder from one machine to another result in the same? iTunes, (and possibly other applications) uses the MAC address of the built-in ethernet for

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Nestamicky wrote: Would transferring just the application folder from one machine to another result in the same? iTunes, (and possibly other applications)

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Dan
At 11:20 AM -0700 9/23/2009, mkehoe wrote: Bruce others - I appreciate your comments. This is the first time I am changing from one computer to another. I want to make sure I understand about the process of authorization. This has nothing to do with just moving the HDs - the OS and apps

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread mkehoe
Thanks Bruce Dan - I don't have any music purchased from iTunes, so it sounds like I can just shut down the 867mHz G4, take out the hard drives, and install them into the 1.25mHz G4 and power it up. Correct? Mira On Sep 23, 1:49 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 11:20 AM -0700

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I moved a boot drive with 10.4 server on it from a single 533MHZ digital audio to a dual 1GHZ xserve, and then a dual 1.33GHZ xserve and it booted right up. -Jonas On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM, mkehoe mirake...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Bruce Dan - I don't have any music purchased from

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:37 PM, mkehoe wrote: Thanks Bruce Dan - I don't have any music purchased from iTunes, so it sounds like I can just shut down the 867mHz G4, take out the hard drives, and install them into the 1.25mHz G4 and power it up. Yep. Make sure you don't take the extra

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Mel
...@gmail.com wrote: From: mkehoe mirake...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 12:37 PM Thanks Bruce Dan - I don't have any music purchased from iTunes, so it sounds like I can just shut down

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Mel wrote: Here is a suggestion that I believe will be better for you. Have you considered buying a used second HD. If you do, install it as a slave in your current CPU. Use CCC to clone it. Restart and reboot holding down the option key. When the

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Clark Martin
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:37 PM, mkehoe wrote: Thanks Bruce Dan - I don't have any music purchased from iTunes, so it sounds like I can just shut down the 867mHz G4, take out the hard drives, and install them into the 1.25mHz G4 and power it up. Yep. Make sure

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Sam Macomber
On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Make sure you don't take the extra step of dropping the hard drive onto the concrete floor like I did one time. :-) I thought we all had to do that once. It was some sort of

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Clark Martin
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Make sure you don't take the extra step of dropping the hard drive onto the concrete floor like I did one time. :-) I thought we all had to do that once. It was some sort of requirement. You notice they never

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Mel
Yes indeed that is what I suggested.  Test it first in the G4 after cloning to see if it boots.  If it does, then make the RR. --- On Wed, 9/23/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: From: Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu Subject: Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Charles Lenington
Clark Martin wrote: I thought we all had to do that once. It was some sort of requirement. You notice they never drop on foam padding or even carpet, only on concrete. Now of course there is the on purpose power up drive , quicky pull power and drop on floor/ The noise is fun. We had a