Re: iMac G3 Slot Load can't read DVD+r disks

2009-12-09 Thread Dan
At 12:52 PM -0600 12/9/2009, Christian Wacker wrote: >On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dan wrote: >> At 12:34 PM -0600 12/9/2009, Christian Wacker wrote: > >>iMac G3 SlotLoad 350mhz basline model that's been uber upgraded. > >10.3.9, fully updated > >>>It has a CD-RW\DVD-Rom drive, but it just w

Re: iMac G3 Slot Load can't read DVD+r disks

2009-12-09 Thread Christian Wacker
I seem to have put my foot in my mouth. I tested the disks before I cleared the hdd and re-installed the system due to some hdd issues. I just tested it with the same disks (one from a friend, two from mine of different brands) and it reads all three disks like my PC does. thanks for the help -Chri

Re: iMac G3 Slot Load can't read DVD+r disks

2009-12-09 Thread Christian Wacker
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dan wrote: > At 12:34 PM -0600 12/9/2009, Christian Wacker wrote: >>iMac G3 SlotLoad 350mhz basline model that's been uber upgraded. > > OS?  Fully updated? 10.3.9, fully updated >>It has a CD-RW\DVD-Rom drive, but it just won't read dvd+r disks > > What make/mod

Re: iMac G3 Slot Load can't read DVD+r disks

2009-12-09 Thread Dan
At 12:34 PM -0600 12/9/2009, Christian Wacker wrote: >iMac G3 SlotLoad 350mhz basline model that's been uber upgraded. OS? Fully updated? >It has a CD-RW\DVD-Rom drive, but it just won't read dvd+r disks What make/model drive is it? What exactly does System Profiler say about the drive? >Any i

Re: iMac G3 Slot Load can't read DVD+r disks

2009-12-09 Thread Christian Wacker
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Owen Strawn wrote: > I don't really know whether this is relevant but here goes: > My G4 iMac with superdrive wouldn't read about half of the files on dual > layer production DVD-ROMs, but everything else seemed normal. A couple years > later it wouldn't read DVD

Re: iMac G3 Slot Load can't read DVD+r disks

2009-12-09 Thread Owen Strawn
I don't really know whether this is relevant but here goes: My G4 iMac with superdrive wouldn't read about half of the files on dual layer production DVD-ROMs, but everything else seemed normal. A couple years later it wouldn't read DVDs at all but would still read CDs and I had to replace it. I

iMac G3 Slot Load can't read DVD+r disks

2009-12-09 Thread Christian Wacker
Hi all, I've got an iMac G3 SlotLoad 350mhz basline model that's been uber upgraded. It has a CD-RW\DVD-Rom drive, but it just won't read dvd+r disks (Which is a problem for me) Any ideas as to how I can update the firmware on the drive so that I can upgrade the system to 10.4 (and watch some of my

Re: Imac network problems

2009-12-09 Thread Kasey Smith
On Dec 6, 2009, at 8:29 PM, epic93 wrote: > How would I go about configuring DHCP in the terminal? I want to use > the terminal with linux for speed and fun, no gui, but network > configuration is one of those things I only learned how to do in the > GUI. And KDE won't initialize. Don't use KDE,

Re: Imac network problems

2009-12-09 Thread Robert Pangrazio
i believe its "dhclient" in ubuntu. You'll need to us sudo or su to root. Check "ifconfig -a". Look for your ethernet port, usually its eth0. It will tell you if it got an ipaddress/subnet. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:29 PM, epic93 wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 5:28 pm, Dan wrote: > > At 6:09 PM -0800 1