Airport setup driving me nuts!
I just received the Airport Extreme base station I purchased off of eBay (B/G version), which was designed to replace my Powermac which I've been using in Software base station mode for years, in the hopes of better signal. Anyway, I attempted to just use the new base station as my wifi hub, but the signal was no better (and I'm also using the DrBott omni antenna). So my next idea was to relay the Powermacs wifi signal around the furnace/fireplace which blocks all signal into my bedroom. Unfortunately, after 3 hours of fiddling, I was unable to get the base station to relay the Powermacs Airport signal. I believe I had the settings all right. I put the base station into WDS remote mode, and plugged in the airport cards ID number as the WDS main MAC address. Everything connected fine, and Airport Utility showed a green light, but no internet signal ever got to my Powerbook, even though I was right under the base station. I guess the million dollar question is can you relay a software base station signal, or is the base station limited to repeating other hardware base station signals? I really want/need signal in my room. It's pretty bad that my 1.67DL Powerbook gets the same horrible reception as my older 400Ti Powerbook, and even worse is my even older Pismo gets 3x the signal of both of them, ugh! I'm now at the point of having to physically run ethernet lines under the house, and put the base station directly in the room. I really don't want to cut holes in the wall, and run wires under the house, so any ideas you guys have I'm open to! Thanks for the advice, and sorry for the super long post. Jake Zeppa -- 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
Hard drive issues with a MDD 1.25
I just picked up a dual 1.25 MDD to replace my slow dual 450 giga. None the less, I've spent the last few hours fighting a problem transferring data from my old drive (80gb WD ata/100), to a Deskstar 80gb ata/100, and I figured it would be best to ask the experts (you guys). The drive that originally came with the computer (Seagate 80gb ata/100) stopped working while transferring data (now it's not recognized by any computer), and the Deskstar has corruption issues now. The drives are set up using the ata/100 bus, both drives set to CS. The computer works great, but somewhere between the two drives when transferring data, everything gets messed up. The original drives data seems fine, and it passes the utility tests, as where the Deskstar now shows errors, and has files I transfered that can't be opened (and a lot of them). Did I screw up somewhere, or could this be a computer problem? I'm open to all suggestions, and I really appreciate the help. Thanks Jake -- 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 issues with a MDD 1.25
Thanks for the reply's everyone. I don't know if it matters, but the Deskstar drive has 10.4 on it, where the drive with all my info is 10.2. I don't own Diskwarrior, but I'm trying to search for a copy. I also unfortunately don't own a 10.4 install disk (I got the drive with it already installed), so saving the 10.4 drive is somewhat important (I only have 10.2 disks, which are now obsolete). I have looked at the cost to buy a used copy of 10.4, but it's quite costly, and for the same cost, I could buy 10.5. I'd really hate to fork over $100 for a new OS, so hopefully it won't come to that. None the less, I'm still open to ideas. I assume there's no way to fix this drive without some software I don't own at the moment? Is there anything I can do to salvage it, while keeping the data in tact? Things work fine, but anything I transfer gets trashed. I'll attempt to transfer data through Firewire, but I wonder what I can do if I wanted to run 2 drives at the same time. Does anyone have an idea why this computer is doing this? Thanks again everyone, I really appreciate the help. Jake --- On Sun, 2/21/10, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote: From: JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com Subject: Re: Hard drive issues with a MDD 1.25 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 10:58 AM On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Clark Martin wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Jake Zeppa wrote: I just picked up a dual 1.25 MDD to replace my slow dual 450 giga. None the less, I've spent the last few hours fighting a problem transferring data from my old drive (80gb WD ata/100), to a Deskstar 80gb ata/100, and I figured it would be best to ask the experts (you guys). The drive that originally came with the computer (Seagate 80gb ata/100) stopped working while transferring data (now it's not recognized by any computer), and the Deskstar has corruption issues now. The drives are set up using the ata/100 bus, both drives set to CS. The computer works great, but somewhere between the two drives when transferring data, everything gets messed up. The original drives data seems fine, and it passes the utility tests, as where the Deskstar now shows errors, and has files I transfered that can't be opened (and a lot of them). Did I screw up somewhere, or could this be a computer problem? I'm open to all suggestions, and I really appreciate the help. Thanks I ran into something similar recently. First thing is you might try putting the other drive on the third ATA bus. Until I got the MDD I didn't know it has 3 ATA busses. The other thing is the drive that came with it was, I think, an 80Gb Deskstar. While it worked fine in the MDD, it won't work in a Sawtooth (I had a 160 Gb HD from the Sawtooth I use in the MDD now). Of two Firewire drives I've tested it in only one would see it properly. I haven't yet investigated it, it might be a matter of the ATA version. I CCC'd the 160 Gb over to the 80Gb, reformatted the 160 and copied everything back. I had tried doing it with the two drives on the same bus, that had problems recognizing the drives. I tried putting the 80Gb in a FW enclosure and that didn't work. About then I noticed the 3rd bus, tried that and that worked just fine. --Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway The third Bus in the MDD is ata 33 for the optical drive I think that it's too slow for a HDD that's used for anything other than storage. JOHN CARMONNE Yorba Linda USA carmo...@aol,com --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 -- 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 issues with a MDD 1.25
Thanks for the idea. I gave it a try but no luck. I'm also getting a Keys Out Of Order warning now from Disk utility. I also gave the FSCK command trick a try, and ran it multiple times without luck. I have a feeling I'm left with one option, formatting, and installing a new OS. Diskwarrior at $100 seems a bit steep at the moment, and if I had to spend the money, I'd put it to OS 10.5. The good news is transferring data via TDM (over firewire) seems to work just fine (no errors so far). On a side note, since 10.4 and 10.5 cost the same used, what are the pro's and cons of each on my dual 1.25 MDD (1gb of ram)? I read I may take a slight hit in performance, but is this all, and haw big of one? Does 10.5 offer me anything useful 10.4 wouldn't other than giving the computer a slightly longer usable life? Thanks again everyone. Jake --- On Sun, 2/21/10, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Try to fix the drive via TDM using Disk utility, it may work you've nuttin to lose. John Carmonne Yorba Linda 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 -- 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
