Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

[Dan]

At 9:33 PM -0600 7/5/2010, Nestamicky wrote:
I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this 
one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that 
were done immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC, 
then Firefox, then Adium, none of the .dmg files will mount.


Console outputs: "diskimages-helper: unable to activate drive - 
error 0xe0002c9 (-536870199).


One possibility is that it's unable to create the mount point.  Pls 
copy this command, exactly as-is, and paste it into Terminal.  Then 
copy'n'paste the complete results into your reply here...


ls -al /Volumes /Library/InputManagers ~/Library/InputManagers

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Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

[Doug McNutt]

At 20:42 -0700 7/5/10, John Carmonne wrote:
>On Jul 5, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
>
>> I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this one. 
>> Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that were done 
>> immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC, then Firefox, then 
>> Adium, none of the .dmg files will mount.
>> 
>> Console outputs: "diskimages-helper: unable to activate drive - error 
>> 0xe0002c9 (-536870199).
>> 
>> I've repaired permissions. Yes, Bruce J., I hear your chuckle. I had to, I 
>> ran out of ideas.
>> 
>> Please help, and oh, yes, I tried using Diskutility to mount the .dmgs, and 
>> got the same output.
>> 
>> Thanks guys.
>> 
>I'd run DiskWarrior on it can't hurt, it usually fixes my stuff like that.
>
>John Carmonne

I still have a problem on 10.3.9 where I'm stuck. *.dmg files simply won't work 
when I attempt to open them while logged in as a privileged user.

I created a new user with no privileges and he is able to read the *.dmg stuff 
and decompress it.  After that I can login as myself and use the decompressed 
files to proceed with installations.

There must be something in my home directory that should be deleted and allowed 
to recreate itself but so far, I haven't found it.

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Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

[John Carmonne]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote:

> I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this one. 
> Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that were done 
> immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC, then Firefox, then 
> Adium, none of the .dmg files will mount.
> 
> Console outputs: "diskimages-helper: unable to activate drive - error 
> 0xe0002c9 (-536870199).
> 
> I've repaired permissions. Yes, Bruce J., I hear your chuckle. I had to, I 
> ran out of ideas.
> 
> Please help, and oh, yes, I tried using Diskutility to mount the .dmgs, and 
> got the same output.
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
I'd run DiskWarrior on it can't hurt, it usually fixes my stuff like that.

John Carmonne
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Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

[Nestamicky]

I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this 
one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that were 
done immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC, then 
Firefox, then Adium, none of the .dmg files will mount.


Console outputs: "diskimages-helper: unable to activate drive - error 
0xe0002c9 (-536870199).


I've repaired permissions. Yes, Bruce J., I hear your chuckle. I had to, 
I ran out of ideas.


Please help, and oh, yes, I tried using Diskutility to mount the .dmgs, 
and got the same output.


Thanks guys.

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Re: Video Card Upgrade Info Please

[Dennis Myhand]

Eric Herbert wrote:

 From what I understand, it goes like this:

If you can manage it, upgrading to a Core Image capable card makes a 
major difference in how your Mac behaves.


For further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Extreme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Image



Well, cool.  It sounds like I did something right.  The guy who sold me 
the card had it listed as supporting Quartz Extreme and Core Image.


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Re: G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

[Eric Herbert]

You stated earlier that the memory you have from your IBM is ECC.  The PowerMac 
doesn't support ECC memory.  You need plain-jane, generic unbuffered memory.  
The same stuff that 99% of all PeeCee's run on.


On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:17 PM, John Carmonne wrote:

> 
> On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote:
> 
>> I just try...minutes ago, (unplug the power and push the power for kill the 
>> static) pull it out the 4 modules of 256 and try with the 2x1 GB. 
>> The machine make 2 or 3  beeps with hard spinning fans... but that's it
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Mark Sokolovsky  wrote:
>> Of course! Try it out, since the 2 machines are similar. 
>> 
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> Which slot numbers did you put them in? 
> 
> John Carmonne
> Yorba Linda USA
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Re: Video Card Upgrade Info Please

[Eric Herbert]

>From what I understand, it goes like this:

Quartz Extreme was Apple's first layer of hardware video acceleration.  It 
requires a minimum of a GeForce 2 or a Radeon graphics card on an AGP bus to 
function.  Quartz Extreme was designed to speed up finder graphics and 2D 
animation by offloading graphics rendering to the graphics card instead of 
using the CPU for rendering as had been done in the past.  Without a Quartz 
Extreme video card, Tiger and later operating systems are fairly sluggish since 
the CPU is required to render all graphics and animations that your screen 
displays.  

Core Image takes Quartz Extreme to the next level.  It required a GeForce 5200 
or a Radeon 9600 graphics card minimum to function.  Core Image accelerates all 
graphics rendering on the system as well as allowing 3rd party applications to 
use the graphics card for proprietary functions.  2 examples I can think of 
right off the top of my head are Flash and Photoshop.  Flash applets, such as 
YouTube will benefit SIGNIFICANTLY from Core Image.  I can use my Quicksilver 
G4 as an example.  With it's stock GeForce 4 graphics card on Leopard, only 
Quartz Extreme is supported.  Watching a YouTube movie is similar to watching a 
slide show.  The whole computer grinds to a halt.  I upgraded it a while back 
to run a flashed GeForce 6200 graphics card which supports Core Image.  The 
XBench graphics benchmark score actually went DOWN, but Flash apps like YouTube 
run smooth as glass.  The Finder overall feels much more responsive as well.

If you can manage it, upgrading to a Core Image capable card makes a major 
difference in how your Mac behaves.

For further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Extreme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Image


On Jul 5, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:

> Core image is the very center of the graphics on Mac OS X. If the video card 
> doesn't support it, well then, I guess you can kiss fast graphics goodbye. As 
> for quartz extreme, i don't know too much about it, but I know for a fact 
> that any video card that doesn't support it will make the graphics even on 
> Mac OS X 10.4.11 or earlier really slow.
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Re: More power to keyboard/mouse please!

[iJohn]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Dan  wrote:
> At 8:45 AM -0700 6/30/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote:

>> here's the question: has anybody on the list tried using one
>> of those "dual USB connections" to provide extra power instead
>> of the USB hub?
>
> Not sure how that would work.  You'd be stealing, or at least trying to
> steal, extra power from the bus that already can't handle the load of the
> longer cable run and the devices connected.

My understanding is that the whole point of the "dual USB" was a way
to try to sneak around the current limitations imposed on each port.
If each USB is limited to 500mA then using two theoretically bumps the
ceiling to 1 A.

How well this would work in practice when dealing with whatever causes
the losses in long cable runs, well I never did have any intuition for
electric circuits.

I think it's simpler to just use a hub ... or migrate to USB 3.0 ( 3 >
2 therefore all scenarios will "work" better. ;-)

-irrational john

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Re: G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

[Dan]

At 3:21 PM -0400 7/5/2010, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote:
I have 2 IBM modules of 1 GB DDR 400 CL3 ECC 
(PC3200R-HYS72D128300HBR-5-C). Can this module work in a G5 1.8 
Single CPU? thank you for any help


Then at 3:43 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:

Of course! Try it out, since the 2 machines are similar.


huh?  The Power Mac G5 supports ECC memory?

Crucial says NO.



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Re: Video Card Upgrade Info Please

[Mark Sokolovsky]

Core image is the very center of the graphics on Mac OS X. If the video card
doesn't support it, well then, I guess you can kiss fast graphics goodbye.
As for quartz extreme, i don't know too much about it, but I know for a fact
that any video card that doesn't support it will make the graphics even on
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or earlier really slow.

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Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:

I use all those monitors for CAD software, Vectorworks 12.5 on my G4  
and I can't afford to keep it updated but it runs on Macs and  
peecees but not under any kind of Linux or UNIX. If I put Linux on  
my G4 I doubt that I will be able to use all of the screen space. I  
certainly can't if I use X-11 to log in to my existing Linux box.


Are there any open source options for decent computer aided design -  
circuit boards, electronic schematics, and some machine drawings -  
available for Linux? I keep looking and even compiling but I haven't  
found anything I can afford.  Yeah. . there are things like Pro- 
Engineer which are way out of my price range.



Not Linux, but  have you looked at Cadintosh from Lemkesoft?

 $30 much cheaper  
than Vectorworks...


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Re: Video Card Upgrade Info Please

[Dennis Myhand]

Thanks, Pete.  I actually wound up going with an ATI 9600XT.  I feel 
pretty confident that I can tape over pins 3 and 11.  Can you, or any 
one else for that matter, tell me what Quartz Extreme and Core Image is? 
 I am still learning about the deepr things of Mac land.  Thanks, Dennis


pdimage wrote:

On 28/6/10 20:09, "Dennis Myhand"  wrote:


Hi All:

I am looking to upgrade the video in my DA dual 533.  I found the
following card on eBay:

MAC nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4600 AGP Video Card 128MB VRAM

Here is the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/MAC-nVidia-GeForce4-Ti-4600-AGP-Video-Card-128MB-VRAM-/110
550696900?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item19bd55c3c4

Is this a good card?  Is it as powerful as the seller says it is?
Thanks, Dennis


It's an old card and though it supports Qextreme it does not support
CoreImage - so if you would like to have CoreImage you will need a minimum
GeForce 5200 or better - for Radeon cards a 9600/9700/9800 Pro - the higher
the better.

Pete




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Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

[Doug McNutt]

At 21:54 +0200 7/5/10, Mac User #330250 wrote:
>>And, sadly: goodbye!

Before you go too far.  A couple of questions about Linux on MY 64 Sawtooth

I'm now using Ubuntu on an Intel, but not Apple, box  with a pair of Nvidia 
flat screens that work like a Mac only because of proprietary drivers from 
Nvidia.  My G4 runs OS neXt with four monitors two of which are still CRTs.  
How can I work with lots of monitors under Linux? Xinerama is either a POS or I 
haven't figured it out yet.

I use all those monitors for CAD software, Vectorworks 12.5 on my G4 and I 
can't afford to keep it updated but it runs on Macs and peecees but not under 
any kind of Linux or UNIX. If I put Linux on my G4 I doubt that I will be able 
to use all of the screen space. I certainly can't if I use X-11 to log in to my 
existing Linux box.

Are there any open source options for decent computer aided design - circuit 
boards, electronic schematics, and some machine drawings - available for Linux? 
I keep looking and even compiling but I haven't found anything I can afford.  
Yeah. . there are things like Pro-Engineer which are way out of my price range.
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Re: G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

[John Carmonne]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote:

> I just try...minutes ago, (unplug the power and push the power for kill the 
> static) pull it out the 4 modules of 256 and try with the 2x1 GB. 
> The machine make 2 or 3  beeps with hard spinning fans... but that's it
> 
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Mark Sokolovsky  wrote:
> Of course! Try it out, since the 2 machines are similar. 
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Which slot numbers did you put them in? 

John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my MBP



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Re: G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

[Miguel Garcia Gell]

*I just try...minutes ago, (unplug the power and push the power for kill the
static) pull it out the 4 modules of 256 and try with the 2x1 GB.
The machine make 2 or 3  beeps with hard spinning fans... but that's it*

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:

> Of course! Try it out, since the 2 machines are similar.
>
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Re: Locked disk?

[John Carmonne]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:

> I have my itunes library located on a separate hard drive inside my G5. for 
> some reason, every time I launch itunes, I get this:
> 
> The folder "iTunes" is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions 
> for this folder.
> 
> How do I unlock it? I've checked the box that say's "ignore permissions on 
> this disk" with no avail... hmm Jeff
> 
> 
I think if you get info on the disc in the lower left you'll have the option to 
unlock the disc.

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Locked disk?

[Jeffrey Engle]

I have my itunes library located on a separate hard drive inside my  
G5. for some reason, every time I launch itunes, I get this:


The folder "iTunes" is on a locked disk or you do not have write  
permissions for this folder.


How do I unlock it? I've checked the box that say's "ignore  
permissions on this disk" with no avail... hmm Jeff



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Re: G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

[John Carmonne]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote:

> I have 2 IBM modules of 1 GB DDR 400 CL3 ECC (PC3200R-HYS72D128300HBR-5-C). 
> Can this module work in a G5 1.8 Single CPU? thank you for any help
> 

It works in my machines PM G4s and PM G5.

John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my MBP



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Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

[Mac User #330250]

Hello!

And, sadly: goodbye!

It was great two+ years with a Power Mac, but the time has come to an end 
(mostly).

I just wanted to thank you all for your support. And: keep them running!


This is my *long* Mac/PowerPC story:

I mostly stumbled into the PowerPC thing, since I got several old Power Macs 
by chance and they didn't cost a thing for me. I installed Mac OS X on them 
and played around with it. It was nice, but since I'm really a Linux guy, I 
also installed Linux on them. But not just any Linux – one of the more 
complicated variants: Gentoo Linux, http://www.gentoo.org.

I have to say that the main reason for me abondoning the PowerPCs is the Power 
Mac G5 “Late 2005” Dual-Core 2.0 GHz which never really worked like it was 
supposed to.
I loved it though, but it's just too much time going into this “project” of 
mine. I was using a 64-bit userland (applications) on a 64-bit Linux kernel. 
This was just right for the 16 GB of DDR2-RAM that where sitting there and 
waiting to be used… *yeah*

Well, the ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe Mac Edition with 256 MB VRAM that I bought as 
an upgrade for the original nVidia GeForce 6600LE with 128 MB VRAM is still 
not supported in Linux, since it simply lacks a driver. There is currently 
being one developed, but since there are *always* some other problems with 
programs on PPC64, failing to compile and such, I just went on with it and got 
a widely supported platform instead: AMD Phenom II X6 with 6 cores @ 3.2 GHz. 
It has only 4 GB DDR3-RAM for the time, as the possible 16 GB are way too 
expensive at this time. But I can assure you that it is an immense performance 
boost!


As for Mac OS X: I used 10.2 up to 10.5 and loved especially 10.3 Panther, 
because it has all that is needed for a great operating system. 10.4 is now 
the one used on my G3 B&W 350 MHz at work but it is quite slow. This is okay 
though – and intended, since at work I don't need a fast machine. At home I 
have a G4 AGP (350 MHz), a G4 GE (with an OWC 1.4/1.5 GHz upgrade) and a G4 
Quicksilver (733 MHz original, upgraded Dual-800 MHz). The last is running 
10.5 Leopard, but I got the impression that the video card nVidia GeForce2 
MX400 is the main reason for it “feeling” a bit rugged/bumpy. Then I have a G4 
MDD (Dual-1 GHz originally, upgraded Dual-1.42 GHz) at my sister's. This will 
go to my father, and the G5 Dual-Core 2.0 GHz of mine will go to my sister 
with Mac OS X 10.5 and all her Mac applications.

I had Gentoo Linux installed on the G4 Quicksilver with the single 733 MHz and 
the Dual-800 MHz PowerPC processor. It is usable, but feels a bit slow. Most 
visual effects are disabled, since it simply is too slow. This is the great 
thing about Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: that it feels so great with so few hardware 
resources. Linux cannot do this. Mac OS X 10.5 on the other hand is like 
Windows Vista/Linux with KDE: it simply requires so much preformance to work 
smoothly. Don't give this required computing power (CPU/GPU) and you'll have 
no fun.

The G4 Mirrored Drive Doors Dual-1 GHz was my inital way into the Mac world, I 
used all my Mac OS X version on it and started with my Gentoo Linux 
installation on this one – this installation is now on my Quicksilver.

I got the Dual-1.42 GHz upgrade for my sister to enhance her workflow. A human 
should never wait for the computer – a good computer will always wait for the 
“slow” human in front of it :-)

Well, she'll be happe with the Dual-Core 2.0 GHz G5 I guess.



If anyone will try to use Linux on a Power Mac – for example when 10.7 is out 
and 10.5 will no longer be recieving security fixes – I can only recommend to 
run *any* PowerPC distribution of Linux on 32-bit G4 computers. The G4 ist the 
best supported PowerPC computer on my Gentoo Linux.

The 64-bit kernel/userland configuration as well as more modern hardware in 
G5s will be more troublesome than all the trouble you can image on all the G4s 
together.

The G4 Mirrored Drive Doors with an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro (64 MB VRAM, AGP 4x) 
was the best supported computer I found for Linux on the Mac.

Others may lack hardware accellerated graphics, like my Quicksilver with 
nVidia GeForce2 MX400 graphics card. It will work like in the MDD with an ATI 
Radeon 9000 Pro though.

I also have the impression that the G3 B&W is not so well supported either, 
but it may well work great once you're over the initial problems.



There seem to be various 32-bit PowerPC distributions of Linux out there. I 
would recommend openSuSE Linux, since it is also great on x86/amd64 platforms. 
I also heard of ArchLinux beeing available for PowerPC. Yellow Dog seems to be 
very popular in the United States. I got the impression they changed their 
focus towards Sony's PlayStation 3. But since this hardware is no valuable 
target market anymore they may again focus on something else.
There is also a community edition of Ubuntu Linux for the PowerPC available, 
but I don't know how good it is supported.

Re: G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

[Mark Sokolovsky]

Of course! Try it out, since the 2 machines are similar.

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Re: time machine back ups

[Mark Sokolovsky]

On my sawtooth, I have a 320GB SATA (plugged into a USB 2.0 PCI Card) drive
plugged in for my time machine backups, and I really have to constantly
delete my backups, because I copied some of my data on it one day and I had
around 290.8GB free. The next day I woke up, The drive only had 187.9GB free
and it was full of backups!

Here are some tips for time machine:

1) NEVER use a small sized drive for backups, or your drive will fill up
quite quickly. My recommendation is at least what I have, 320GB. The more,
the better.
2) Don't always delete old backups, because you might have an old copy of a
file you really might need
3) Don't share the same drive as the backup drive on the network, so nobody
can access your data unless you need to, or you trust them.
4) If the hard drive is large enough, try backing up copies of other
computers who aren't so lucky as to having a large hard drive.

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G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

[Miguel Garcia Gell]

*I have 2 IBM modules of 1 GB DDR 400 **CL3 **ECC
(PC3200R-HYS72D128300HBR-5-C). Can this module work in a G5 1.8 Single CPU?
thank you for any help*

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Re: time machine back ups

[John Carmonne]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 11:01 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:

> Four is right. The largest PATA drives easily found are 500GB, haven't
> seen 750/1TB.
> Not tough to add a SATA card to the PCI slot and get 2 or 4 SATA
> drives in there. SATAs are coming down in price, no sooner did I get 2
> 1.5TB drives for $90 ea than they're selling the 2TB models for $100.
> 3TB will hold me for now.
> 
> On Jul 5, 9:34 am, Linda  wrote:
>> On Jul 3, 2010, at 11:57 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
>> 
>>> The Time machine volume should be a separate HDD apart from your  
>>> main drive. It sounds like maybe you have the Time machine on your  
>>> working drive?
>> 
>> no, its on a separate drive. I occasionally throw some files on the  
>> second drive. I had planned to use it to make videos as it is larger  
>> than my original HD which is only 80G.
>> 
>> maybe I need to add another HD? How many can you put in a MDD?
>> 
>> Linda in Ohio


Just a note: if you boot 9 and have 500 drives in the MDD you must partition 
one with I believe a 180 partition or smaller to boot OS 9. 
also a special ROM is needed to boot OS 9 on a MDD.:-)

John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
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Re: time machine back ups

[JoeTaxpayer]

Four is right. The largest PATA drives easily found are 500GB, haven't
seen 750/1TB.
Not tough to add a SATA card to the PCI slot and get 2 or 4 SATA
drives in there. SATAs are coming down in price, no sooner did I get 2
1.5TB drives for $90 ea than they're selling the 2TB models for $100.
3TB will hold me for now.

On Jul 5, 9:34 am, Linda  wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2010, at 11:57 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
>
> > The Time machine volume should be a separate HDD apart from your  
> > main drive. It sounds like maybe you have the Time machine on your  
> > working drive?
>
> no, its on a separate drive. I occasionally throw some files on the  
> second drive. I had planned to use it to make videos as it is larger  
> than my original HD which is only 80G.
>
> maybe I need to add another HD? How many can you put in a MDD?
>
> Linda in Ohio

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Re: time machine back ups

[Chance Reecher]

I think all the MDDs have the 4 bays.

John Carmonne wrote:

On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Linda wrote:

  
 Which MDD do you have? My MDD G4 Dual has four internal HDD bays. Two on a 100 Bus and two on a 66 Bus. 


John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
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Re: time machine back ups

[John Carmonne]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Linda wrote:

> 
> On Jul 3, 2010, at 11:57 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
> 
>> The Time machine volume should be a separate HDD apart from your main drive. 
>> It sounds like maybe you have the Time machine on your working drive?
> 
> 
> no, its on a separate drive. I occasionally throw some files on the second 
> drive. I had planned to use it to make videos as it is larger than my 
> original HD which is only 80G.
> 
> maybe I need to add another HD? How many can you put in a MDD?
> 
> Linda in Ohio
> 
 Which MDD do you have? My MDD G4 Dual has four internal HDD bays. Two on a 100 
Bus and two on a 66 Bus. 

John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
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Re: time machine back ups

[Linda]

On Jul 3, 2010, at 11:57 PM, John Carmonne wrote:

The Time machine volume should be a separate HDD apart from your  
main drive. It sounds like maybe you have the Time machine on your  
working drive?



no, its on a separate drive. I occasionally throw some files on the  
second drive. I had planned to use it to make videos as it is larger  
than my original HD which is only 80G.


maybe I need to add another HD? How many can you put in a MDD?

Linda in Ohio

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