Hi Bob,
First thing: I do not rely on these older Macs to do anything
critical. I have one at another location that I am at at times. I use
them as loaners for students; And I install them with customers that
have PCs that we can't afford to expose to the web.
I use Disk Warrior and run it from a OS9 drive. I always have a small
OS 9 drive on these XPF macs. If the drive is badly fragmented I will
run Speed Disk; But never use Norton's disk utility on anything.
These old Macs are often hard to get going on OSX, but they are
usually very reliable once going. I have had a 7600 with a G3 upgrade
and two small drives running 24/7/365 as a firewall and internet
access at a sign shop for two years (10.3). It went down once with a
dead PRAM battery. I have more trouble with beige G3 than the PCI Macs.
B&W G3s are so cheap now that I am replacing the older macs. 8500s
are among my least favorite of the PCI Macs; The desktops are much
easier to maintain and the 8500 offers no real advantage over them.
Roger Harris
On Sep 5, 2005, at 5:07 PM, macfan wrote:
I have a curiosity question for everyone on this list about
maintaining unsupported OS X Macs. About every 3 or 4 months one
of my unsupported Macs goes down and I end up having to reinstall
the OS X System Software.
Bob K.
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