New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread D Stubbs
I just got in a new 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune), I haven't had a large HD before so I first tried searching this forum's archives - but didn't quite find an answer to my question. I see 3 possible ways to go before I put this to use. My first unededucated thought is to make

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Steve R
At 9:51 AM -0600 1/4/09, D Stubbs posted: I just got in a new 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune), I haven't had a large HD before so I first tried searching this forum's archives - but didn't quite find an answer to my question. I see 3 possible ways to go before I put this to

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Hunter Fuller
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Re: Powermac G4 dual 500MHZ v. G4 single 533MHZ

2009-01-04 Thread jfMac
On Jan 4, 2:08 am, jonas ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: So are you saying that I can add large drive support to the digital audio without the pci ata card? How? How do I build a Hackintosh? My brother just got me a 1.8GHZ dell dimension for $20 at a second hand shop. -Jonas On

Re: Dumb Powerbook Question

2009-01-04 Thread Doug Burton
On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:23 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: I have an Aluminum Powerbook G4, 2GB ram, 1.25GHz processor that has a built-in microphone. I know how to turn the microphone on, set the levels how in the blazes do you record something? TIA, JT A very good question and the answer

Re: Dumb Powerbook Question

2009-01-04 Thread Dana Collins
On 1/4/09 2:36 PM, Doug Burton of slu...@embarqmail.com sent On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:23 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: I have an Aluminum Powerbook G4, 2GB ram, 1.25GHz processor that has a  built-in microphone. I know how to turn the microphone on, set the  levels how in the blazes do you

Installing PC3200 Ram into a PC2700 Dual 1Gb G4

2009-01-04 Thread artemis
I've been offered a free 1GB PC3200 memory module for my G4 Mac Dual 1Gb MDD, and have been assured that it is compatible. However, my manual states that this model uses PC2700 RAM and that the maximum size module available is 512Mb. Anybody have experience with this upgrade method? Will it

Re: Installing PC3200 Ram into a PC2700 Dual 1Gb G4

2009-01-04 Thread Tony Gamble
On 4-Jan-09, at 3:05 PM, artemis wrote: I've been offered a free 1GB PC3200 memory module for my G4 Mac Dual 1Gb MDD, and have been assured that it is compatible. However, my manual states that this model uses PC2700 RAM and that the maximum size module available is 512Mb. Anybody have

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 4, 2009, at 10:51 AM, D Stubbs wrote: I just got in a new 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune), I haven't had a large HD before so I first tried searching this forum's archives - but didn't quite find an answer to my question. I see 3 possible ways to go before

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:51 AM -0600 1/4/2009, D Stubbs wrote: 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune) Or perhaps one 30G with Apps and System clones CCC'd as a boot backup, and one 470 for everything else? Do that. Two volumes - one big enough to hold your

Un-Mounting Drive

2009-01-04 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi All... I have a fairly new Maxtor OneTouch 4P 250 GB external drive running from a USB 2.0 hub, from a PCI USB 2.0 card. The system is a Sawtooth running X 10.5.6. I want to use the drive to copy files from another external drive and initialize the second drive as a Mac file system and

Re: Dumb Powerbook Question

2009-01-04 Thread Andy
On 1/4/09 2:36 PM, Doug Burton of slu...@embarqmail.com sent On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:23 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: I have an Aluminum Powerbook G4, 2GB ram, 1.25GHz processor that has a  built-in microphone. I know how to turn the microphone on, set the  levels how in the blazes do

I am thinking about a processor upgrade for my G4/400 AGP

2009-01-04 Thread RiverMan
Has anyone tried the upgrade from XLR8 or Newer Tech? I read about a 1.6 Ghz and a 2.0 Ghz upgrade for my G4 but would love to hear from people who have tried it. Or should I just save my cash and get a newer model? Thanks! -=] RiverMan [=- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: I am thinking about a processor upgrade for my G4/400 AGP

2009-01-04 Thread PeterH
On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:31 PM, RiverMan wrote: Has anyone tried the upgrade from XLR8 or Newer Tech? I read about a 1.6 Ghz and a 2.0 Ghz upgrade for my G4 but would love to hear from people who have tried it. Or should I just save my cash and get a newer model? Freescale hasn't been making

Re: Mail oddity

2009-01-04 Thread George Hozendorf
On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Dan wrote: At 7:46 PM -0600 1/3/2009, George Hozendorf wrote: I'm trying to set up Mail in a second account. After logging into the account I open Mail only to have it automatically close before I can set up the Mail account. Does anyone know what's

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Dan
At 4:15 PM -0500 1/4/2009, Charles Davis wrote: On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:51 AM -0600 1/4/2009, D Stubbs wrote: 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune) Two volumes - one big enough to hold your entire system volume and the other for everything else. If you

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread D Stubbs
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, KP parishky...@gmail.com wrote: I use a 300GB backup HD in an enclosure. I recently lost my everything on it. If I would have had seperate partitions on it, and put my music files in one partition, media files in another, one for the cloned OS... etc, than I

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 4, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Dan wrote: At 4:15 PM -0500 1/4/2009, Charles Davis wrote: On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:51 AM -0600 1/4/2009, D Stubbs wrote: 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune) Two volumes - one big enough to hold your entire system volume and

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 4, 2009, at 7:34 PM, D Stubbs wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, KP parishky...@gmail.com wrote: I use a 300GB backup HD in an enclosure. I recently lost my everything on it. If I would have had seperate partitions on it, and put my music files in one partition, media files

Latest Toast titanium for Mac OS 9

2009-01-04 Thread Mullin9
Dear Sir What is the Latest Toast titanium for Mac OS 9 I have an iMac G4 800 with OS 9 on it. with DVD RW, 60 GB HDD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: Latest Toast titanium for Mac OS 9

2009-01-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 4, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Mullin9 wrote: What is the Latest Toast titanium for Mac OS 9 The transition from OS 9 to OS X happened about the same time that Toast moved from Adaptec to Roxio. Toast 5 was the carbon version then that worked natively in both OS 9 OS X. Toast caved to Apple

Re: Powermac G4 dual 500MHZ v. G4 single 533MHZ

2009-01-04 Thread Mullin9
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:15 AM, jonas ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 533MHZ G4 PowerMac with a 133MHZ bus speed and 3 dimm slots. I also have a Dual 500MHZ PowerMac G4 with a 100MHZ bus speed and 4 dimm slots. I want to run one of these with Mac OS 10.4 Server. Which will

Where do I learn about long lasting cdr's or dvdr's ????

2009-01-04 Thread aussieshepsrock
Hello, I'm setting up to archive family photo's for posterity but am getting conflicting info on Media Choices and on going between CDR or DVDR. I'm also not quite sure where to look for scientifically valid evaluations and reccomendations. My google searches and readings seem to be a mix of

Re: Dumb PowerBook Question

2009-01-04 Thread Dana Collins
On 1/4/09 6:25 PM, Andy of andy.the...@gmail.com sent On 1/4/09 2:36 PM, Doug Burton of slu...@embarqmail.com sent On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:23 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: I have an Aluminum Powerbook G4, 2GB ram, 1.25GHz processor that has a  built-in microphone. I know how to turn

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread insightinmind
I would suggest reading up on CCC 3.1.3 and see how it treats partitions and volumes. Then you can make an informed decision how partitions function in a backup scenario. I have the sometimes laughed at PCI Graphics Yikes! partitions (80GB internal Seagate): OS X 10.4.11 Classic 9.2.2

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread D Stubbs
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:07 PM, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.comwrote: Emergency Technical Question! Does the Original Poster's Sawtooth Mac have a Hard Drive Size or Partition Size limitation of some sort that he/she needs to consider? ALSO! A reccomendation to the Original

Re: I am thinking about a processor upgrade for my G4/400 AGP

2009-01-04 Thread aussieshepsrock
HiYa RiverMan, There is a big 'IF' in my reccomendation, but I see the cheapest and most straight forward speed bump you can achieve is by sliding an Intel Mini in the place of your Tower. When I compare the 'benchmark' numbers in the MacTracker App between a 400mhz g4 agp to a late model Mini

Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

2009-01-04 Thread dorayme
On Dec 4 2008, 8:55 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:36 AM, dorayme wrote: I have been looking at: http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/shorts/overview.aspx to prepare myself! You folks might like to know this url. I will buy a new monitor and consider

Re: Un-Mounting Drive

2009-01-04 Thread Dan
At 1:27 PM -0800 1/4/2009, Amanda Ward wrote: Maxtor OneTouch 4P 250 GB external drive Sawtooth running X 10.5.6. Disk Utility says it can't unmount the drive and I can't eject it because The drive is in use. If there isn't an obvious app touching the mounted volumes, then it's probably

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Bill Christensen
At 6:07 PM -0800 1/4/09, aussieshepsrock wrote: Emergency Technical Question! Does the Original Poster's Sawtooth Mac have a Hard Drive Size or Partition Size limitation of some sort that he/she needs to consider? Since it's an external (Firewire) drive, there's no problem. The 128 gig limit

Re: Installing PC3200 Ram into a PC2700 Dual 1Gb G4

2009-01-04 Thread Bill Christensen
At 3:54 PM -0500 1/4/09, Tony Gamble wrote: On 4-Jan-09, at 3:05 PM, artemis wrote: I've been offered a free 1GB PC3200 memory module for my G4 Mac Dual 1Gb MDD, and have been assured that it is compatible. However, my manual states that this model uses PC2700 RAM and that the maximum

Re: Dumb Powerbook Question

2009-01-04 Thread KP
From what I understand, Garage Band will record. On Jan 4, 12:36 pm, Doug Burton slu...@embarqmail.com wrote: On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:23 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: I have an Aluminum Powerbook G4, 2GB ram, 1.25GHz processor that has a built-in microphone. I know how to turn the

Re: Where do I learn about long lasting cdr's or dvdr's ????

2009-01-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:29 PM, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: HiYa Wallace, Wikipedia was my first stop and while the entries I found were informative, they were for the most part more frightening than definitive about my choices. I've also seen multiple references to

Re: Where do I learn about long lasting cdr's or dvdr's ????

2009-01-04 Thread Dan
At 5:54 PM -0800 1/4/2009, aussieshepsrock wrote: I'm setting up to archive family photo's for posterity Wonderful project! Great fun, to be able to ship DVDs to relatives etc. But please - retain the original photos. 1) They'll always outlast the digital media. 2) As scanner technologies

Re: Installing PC3200 Ram into a PC2700 Dual 1Gb G4

2009-01-04 Thread KP
It would be a benefit if say your computer only accepted 512MB and you put two 512s' in it rather than one 512 or two 256s'. The reason being is that one 512 will run larger programs but with only 1 slot to transfer data. two 256s' will use both slots but may separate some larger programs when

Re: My computer

2009-01-04 Thread joe
On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: The key to this Mac is: Machine Model: PowerMac3,3 An AGP Graphics (Sawtooth) should be PowerMac3,1. Yes. Also, on my AGP Graphics (originally a 450 mhz) the profiler even identifies it as AGP Graphics: Hardware Overview:

Re: Installing PC3200 Ram into a PC2700 Dual 1Gb G4

2009-01-04 Thread artemis
Hello Tony - Thanks for the clarification. Does it matter that it's a 400MHz module, rather than the 333MHz specified in my manual? And is the fact that it's Dual Channel an issue? Appreciate your advice. It certainly won't fry your Mac, as PC3200 is backwards compatible   with PC2700.  

Quicksilver motherboard in digital audio case??

2009-01-04 Thread jonas ulrich
I was wondering if it is possible to put a quicksilver mother board in a digital audio case? thanks!!-Jonas --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Quicksilver motherboard in digital audio case??

2009-01-04 Thread PeterH
On Jan 4, 2009, at 9:52 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to put a quicksilver mother board in a digital audio case? It's not a 100 percent fit, although the outside dimensions of the mobo are identical. The PSUs are different, and a QS PSU must go with a QS

Re: Powermac G4 dual 500MHZ v. G4 single 533MHZ

2009-01-04 Thread Justin The Cynical
Mullin9 wrote: the Second CPU will double the speed of your Mac, Incorrect. A second CPU does not 'double the speed' of any machine. Per http://www.devx.com/go-parallel/Article/27399: With current dual processor arrangements single threaded apps are expected to see a 10% increase in