I got Panther loaded on it this afternoon with no problems, so now,
as far as Panther is concerned, it's completely up to date. Once I
took off the covers for the jumpers the second HD loaded easily, so
it's as good as it will get without me buying new hardware.
I was under the impression that the B&W was not capable of booting
using firewire. Was I wrong?
Brian
On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
Mine is very quiet as well. It is nice, isn't it? The scanner I'm
borrowing from my mum for a family project is much louder than the
computer itself.
As for how to install Tiger w/o a DVD reader in the machine, someone
mentioned that you might be able to set another Mac into firewire
target
mode (makes the machine act like an external firwire drive), but
that, of
course, requires you have another Mac that supports it.
Personally, I'd go with a Liteon Combo 52W/32Rw/52R/16x. My B&W works
with it fine, boots from a CD/DVD fine with it, I just had to use
patchburn to get the Apple supplied software to see it as a CD
burner and
not just a reader. Mine cost less than 40 U.S. dollars.
I looked inside it last night, and am a bit perplaxed by the hard
drive setup- the hard drive is lying on the bottom of the case, not
bolted down, but I see how it is supposed to be screwed in, just not
not how to do it.
Take a look here, this may answer all your questions:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/add_2nd_drive/index.html
As for your other question about wireless, the answer is it
depends. :-)
The PCI slots in the machine are standard PCI slots, but driver
support
varies. The Apple 802.11G cards use a Broadcom chipset, so any
card that
uses said chipset will be seen and utilized by the built-in Airport
software (I've got a Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54 in mine that works
perfectly).
Other cards that use other chipsets should work, /if/ the company that
makes the card or chipset provides OS X drivers.
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