Eric, I have a March 2008 24" iMac. If you have not added more RAM to your standard 2007 iMac, you should. These days, 4 GB of RAM is the minimum you need. I believe that Apple says that you can safely put 4 GB (2 X 2GB) into your iMac. Mac Sales (www.macsales.com) claimed that you can put in 6 GB (1 X 2GB, 1 X 4GB). I currently have 4 GB, but I'm thinking about upping that to 6GB. Also, check with Crucial to find out what they say about increasing your RAM, (http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/memory-info).
Best wishes, Myles MacVane On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 12:35 PM, 375GTB . <[email protected]> wrote: > IF it shows up on the desktop. > > But won't boot into.... > > Then the System Folder needs to be "Blessed" > > Look up how one does that.... > > Been years.... > > Your iOmega enclosure is FINE, trust me. > > They were bought out, did not go bust... > > iOmega was BAD, about 1990... > > After great success with the old ZIP drives... > > Burning stuff did them in, for a while... > > IWeve been using external enclosures since our 1990 Mac Classic, > > with a 20MB SCSI Apple drive meant for the 1987 SE. > > Given to us in 1997.... > > I use two FW800 LaCie d2's with my 2009 Mac Mini > > One is IDE, the other SATA... 320GB, 7200 rpm in each case. > > As my main drives. Were c. $25 on eBay.... > > The Mini's slow 320GB 5400 internal drive is used ONLY for Time Machine > backups. > > A FW400 250GB 7200 rpm LaCie d2 is used with my 2007 white MacBooks lone > FW400 port. > > Good luck > > J.C. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Eric Volker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well I got the enclosure, but things didn’t go as planned. I got a deal >> on an enclosure that had once been an Iomega Mac Companion. I installed the >> SSD, hooked the enclosure up to my Firewire 800 port and it showed up on >> the desktop. I installed El Capitan and rebooted, but when the Mac rebooted >> it came up from the internal drive not the external one. Holding down >> Option while booting showed only the internal drive. The Firewire drive is >> visible in the Startup Disk preference panel, but selecting it accomplishes >> nothing. Rebooting it just comes up on the internal drive. >> >> Now for the fun part. It *will* boot if I hook up the drive via USB 2.0. >> However, that’s pretty slow and I got this enclosure for the faster >> Firewire 800 port. Another curiosity is that the disk shows up as “External >> RAID Media” in Disk Utility. It is assuredly not RAID, just a single 256GB >> SSD. Could this be the problem? >> >> I’m in the process of testing the SSD over USB, but results so far are >> mixed. Any thoughts on getting Firewire working? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Eric >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a >> group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "iMac Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- myles.macvane.com -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
