Hi Hugh,
I was aware if the 120 MB barrier. However if the drive was
partitioned into smaller chunks, Bruce could =kind of= see it. He
could see the partitions and the stuff in them, but reading or
writing the drive was a crap-shoot at best.
The drive is now connected to the server box, shared over the network
and Bruce is just fine with it.
I agree with you on upgrades! First of all I love tinkering and
shopping around for the various bits and pieces can save you a lot of
money.
At first, I didn't buy my B&W machine(s) with the idea to upgrade,
but the tinkerer got the best of me. Had some extra ram from a kaput
wintel, then the G4 cpu, some bigger hard drives, an external cd
writer, an external hard drive and a dvd burner.... and then Tiger!
Bruce isn't a world-class machine, but for about a $600 total
investment he's a very capable machine that does all I ask. The only
limitations I run into is when I have 4 or 5 other apps open and then
try to watch a DVD!
Amanda
02A9H - Hexadecimal of the Beast
On 17/12/2005, at 10:29 AM, HUGH WEST wrote:
I also made similar upgrades to my 400 mHZ Yikes G4 and recall in
xlerate your mac that these machines can only address drives up to
120 GB so that my be Amanda's prob with her USB drive.
It is very worthwhile to kick $400 to $500 in to upgrade a late G3
B&W or early G4 they have lots of life left. The only caveate is if
you want a non-intel Mac buy it in 2006 or wait till 2007 to get a
second or revised Intel Mac (sound strange to me). If you got
caught with the awesome G4 that changed rapidly in 1999 it's first
year you'll know what I mean.
cheers al west
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