Re: Hard drive woes
At 12:00 AM -0500 7/11/2011, Wayne Garrett wrote: I have been having problems with hard drive corruption on both SATA drives in My G5 Dual 1.8. Could it be the built in SATA controller? I just fixed one drive only to have the other get messed up. Any ideas?? What type of corruption? Yes, the controller is a possibility, since there are problems on both drives. But it could be quite a few other things too -- you haven't provided any details about your system or software. Clean and reseat the SATA connectors. If you have a SATA card, try it. Check your system.log for disk or controller related errors. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: MDD Can not find Boot Disk
MDD Can not find Boot Disk problem has been solved. My previous platform was a 1999 G4, AGP Graphics the I purchased new. I just purchased a MDD and move all of my disks from the AGP to the MDD Which was all well and good. My main BOOT Disk is a SATA disk connected through the ACARD, 6280M - however the disk that was the 1st default drive on the ATA chain was a disk that had OS 9.2.2 which worked just fine for the AGP but the MDD wouldn't recognize the drive therefore No Boot Disk Thanks for all of the help that I got from John, he really knows his stuff. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Jul 2, 6:59 am, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I've given up researching this problem and hopping one of you may have some suggestions. I recently acquired a MDD: Hardware Overview: Model Name: Power Mac G4 Model Identifier: PowerMac3,6 Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Processor Speed: 1.25 GHz Number Of CPUs: 2 L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 167 MHz Boot ROM Version: 4.4.8f2 Serial Number (system): Sales Order Number: Hardware UUID: --1000-8000-000393AE8678 and my problem is that if I preform a PRAM reset at boot time I get the blank screen with the disk symbol and a ? (question mark) This is true even if I have a OS X 10.5 DVD in the DVD Drive. It's an over kill but I also have four (4) disks in the platform, 2 ea. IDE and 2 ea. SATA. The SATA drives are connected through a ACARD, 6280M which appears to the system as a SCSI interface. All of the disks have a good system folder and can be use to boot the MDD. There are three (3) disk with OS X 10.5.X, one (1) disk with OS X 10.3.X and one (1) disk with OS 9.2.X. Yes, if I remove all of the disks except one, the IDE (OS X 10.5.X) which is located in the first disk position, the position where apple puts the first disk when they sell you the platform the problem still occurs. When this problem occurs (my own doing) the only way out that I've found to correct this situation is to do a force shut-down, i.e. hold down the power button until the system shuts down. Upon re-powering the platform if I don't hold the C key, telling the Boot ROM that I want to boot from the DVD I'm right back into the trap of no Boot Disk found. However holding down the C key the MDD will boot into the OS X 10.5 DVD Commercial Version at which time I can go the Select Startup Disk and restart into any of my disk, ABAIK the Boot ROM Version 4.4.8f2 is the latest version for this platform, however it might have problems, so if anyone has knowledge of how to redo the Boot ROM I'm willing to give it a try. I have a disk with OS 9.2 installed so I could boot from that disk and redo Boot ROM update, but I'm thinking that the install program will see Version 4.4.8f2 and refuse to install. Also if anyone knows the direct link to Apple to get the Boot ROM please give it to me. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
G3 Beige Tower Questions
Greetings: I found this group via LEM, naturally. I was looking up specs on my newly acquired G3 Beige Tower. I am actually writing to find out if I can replace the SCSI (9 GB) Drive with a nice ATA adapter (and which one I need) so I can put at least an 80 GB drive into the box. The current setup includes a SCSI adapter (Adaptec) which runs the system drive and looks to be Factory installed, it had a sticker on the external connector that basically was don't use this. I have put in a Firewire/USB card I had and that works fine. But I am not sure if my ATA 100 or ATA 66 promise card will work in this unit and wanted to know what EIDE controller I would want for this unit. It reports itself as being a 333 mhz G3. I am currently running os 9.1 on her and trying to put her back into service as my main box. I am thinking of running the classic mozilla browser that is available to give me modern Browsing... but I am also in need of some software and hoped I could gain some leads. So the question above is question 1. Q2: Does anyone know of or have an old copy of ACDSee for Mac? I can not seem to find it, or I would accept another picture viewer app, but I think I am leaning towards ACDSee. I am not sure if any software of this vintage was able to support PNG at all though? Mostly JPEG anyhow, but, need a good veiwer. Q3: Need to find a floppy drive bezel for this machine. Saved it from a local recycler and it was missing that bezel, but otherwise looks great and works great. Just as well, seeking all kinds of old software, so if someone has some they would like to part with, let me know. I am hopeful that I can get this machine up and running in great shape and even though it is old, I like classic A-LOT better than OS X, so I guess I am as vintage as they come :-) Thanks in advance for any help. Mike Needham Olathe, KS USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions
On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:23 AM, iainnitro wrote: Greetings: I found this group via LEM, naturally. I was looking up specs on my newly acquired G3 Beige Tower. I am actually writing to find out if I can replace the SCSI (9 GB) Drive with a nice ATA adapter (and which one I need) so I can put at least an 80 GB drive into the box. The current setup includes a SCSI adapter (Adaptec) which runs the system drive and looks to be Factory installed, it had a sticker on the external connector that basically was don't use this. You can ignore this sticker; it does work, but you can have tricksy issues with terminations and id's then. Basically you end up with a termination in the middle of the chain, which works...for some devices. If you add things to this SCSI chain, you'll probably want to unset the TERM (and and maybe the TERM Power) jumper on the optical drive, and manage termination yourself. However, the Beige G3's already have an ATA drive. IIRC ones sold as servers came with SCSI drives, but there is an ATA (66 IIRC) port on the mobo as well. If there's no ATA connector you may actually have an old 604 powermac not a G3. As for add-on ATA cards, so long as they have Mac ROMS they should work. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Hard drive woes
I was able to repair one drive and did a clean install of 10.5. It seems all my trouble starts with screwed up updates. Our satalite ISP seems to mess up and the Apple server is horribly slow. The other drive is not seeming to repair. The one I am booting from now is my backup. I guess next I should re-format my main drive. On 7/11/11, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:00 AM -0500 7/11/2011, Wayne Garrett wrote: I have been having problems with hard drive corruption on both SATA drives in My G5 Dual 1.8. Could it be the built in SATA controller? I just fixed one drive only to have the other get messed up. Any ideas?? What type of corruption? Yes, the controller is a possibility, since there are problems on both drives. But it could be quite a few other things too -- you haven't provided any details about your system or software. Clean and reseat the SATA connectors. If you have a SATA card, try it. Check your system.log for disk or controller related errors. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- Sent from my mobile device -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Hard drive woes
On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Wayne Garrett wrote: I was able to repair one drive and did a clean install of 10.5. It seems all my trouble starts with screwed up updates. Our satalite ISP seems to mess up and the Apple server is horribly slow. The other drive is not seeming to repair. The one I am booting from now is my backup. I guess next I should re-format my main drive. For updates, then, do NOT use Software Update; go to Apple's web site and download them individually. Failed updates, though, will mess up the OS, NOT the underlying drive formatting or directory structure. If you're finding 'disk corruption' that's recurring, it's quite possibly a sign of impending drive failure...I've seen that a number of times. Also if these drives are as old as the Mac...well, they're getting old, failing so near each other could be sheer coincidence. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Best wireless card for G4
What would be the best wireless card for a G4 gigabit. It is running OS10.5.8 and needs to use an HP 4500 wireless printer. Sent from my iPod -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Best wireless card for G4
What would be the best wireless card for a G4 gigabit. It is running OS10.5.8 and needs to use an HP 4500 wireless printer. The best is one which utilizes a Broadcom chip set and is recognized as an Airport Extreme card. This would be a PCI card. However, most manufacturers have moved on to USB 2.0 dongles or Ralink-based PCI cards. A USB 2.0 dongle is usable in a G4 Gigabit, but it would operate at the USB 1.1 rate. ZyDAS 1211B-based dongles are good, but there are others which also offer MacOS X-compatible drivers. A very economical alternative is a Mini PCI card for a Dell Laptop in a Mini PCI-to-PCI adapter. You would find these on eBay at very low cost. I have these Dell Mini PCI cards and adapters in almost all of my Hackintoshes. MacOS X recognizes these as shown below: en0: Card Type:Third-Party Wireless Card Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 b/g Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Current Network Information: PHY Mode: 802.11g -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
