Re: Pioneer DVD burner in a beige?

[Felix Arrazolo]

Thank you Sven.  I have a Siig PCI card.  I think that does the trick 
as far as overcoming the 8GB barrier issue, but I partitioned the drive 
the way I did (10GB for OS X and some Apps) and the rest (160GB) for 
documents and the rest of the Apps, b/c I didn't want to have to worry 
about OS X in an unsupported machine messing up and having to reinstall 
this and that, all the while jeopardizing my documents.  But now I see 
I should have used a larger partition for the boot volume.

And yes, I have taken a look at xlr8.com's page.  Thanks for the 
recommendation.

From the looks of it, it doesn't look very promising.  I'll keep 
reading them as I haven't read all the pertinent ones yet. Thanks 
everyone.
Just curious by the way: Has anyone successfully moved their users 
folders to a different partition and yet kept the protection that OS X 
gives to your folders and the other user's folders?  For example, does 
it still keep you out of other users (a feature I'd like to keep) or is 
that something you have to give up?

Very close to getting the G4 800 upgrade for my oldbeige!

By the way, if I take out the DVD drive that came in a G4 (grey and 
white), one of the earliest superdrives, and put it in my beige g3, it 
should work right?  Also, if I do that, and that takes up the place of 
my super fast CD Re-Writer (52X 32X 52X), could I still keep that 
writer in the sysem but house it outside the box.  I know that might 
look messy but if I don't care about that, and I have an available 
place on the motherboard to connect the ribbon caple and power it, it 
should work right?  Might that also help to alleviate heat issues? And 
by the way, has anyone ever tried powering internal devices externally 
through some adapter so that the computer does not "run out juice"?

Is that crazy?

Went to the Apple store. I'm torn: To stay in budget, I can either get 
the g4 upgrade or the splendid iPod or iPod mini.  ouch.

Will stop rambling now.



On Mar 12, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Sven Radke wrote:


Also, I understand that  if the boot volume is small, encoding and 
burning will not work (assuming you could get iDVD to work) b/c  the 
boot volume may run out of space. Anyone have a solution for that?
use an IDE Controller what emulates a SCSI drive (wich has not the 8 
gig issue)  - u will also benefit from the better bandwith

hth
Sven
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