Rich,
Maxing out the memory is a good idea. I mean, 896Mb is good, but 2
gigs is great. So you are on the right track there.
SATA hard drives are bigger, cheaper and faster. Which means, if she
gets a SATA PCI card (which are about $50), she can both break the
128GB barrier and add a 1 TB hard
I loaded the OS to the SATA drive and ran benchmarking tests. The
improvements were minimal. In practice, pure HD moves were much
faster, SATA to SATA file moves, but things like video encode, as
others taught me, the bottleneck is not the HD, but the bus and/or
processor. So, I'm not trying to
On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:14 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
I believe the 500GB drive can be partitioned to look like 4 125GB
drives if the 128GB limit is an issue.
If on a pre-QS 2002 model up to and including a QS 2001, you are
stuck with the 128 GB line.
All partitions below the 131,072 MB line
On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Peter Haas wrote:
Below that line, you may include as many partitions as you wish.
All may be bootable
Above that line, you may also include as many partitions as you
wish. None may be bootable.
On a QS 2002, or all later, every partition may be bootable.
At 5:50 PM -0700 7/26/2010, Mullin9 wrote:
iMac G4 800,
is it possible to go into open firmware [] and use pdisk to reformat
the hard drive
No. AFAIK, pdisk is a unix tool ported to Mac OS. It must be run
within Mac OS.
- Dan.
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On Jul 27, 2:39 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
video work. My fav box is a La Cie d2 Quadra. It uses a SATA drive
internally and the interfaces are USB2, FW400, FW800, and eSATA.
Of course, since you're doing video work, you want a drive that's at
least 7200rpm. There are 10,000 and
No. AFAIK, pdisk is a unix tool ported to Mac OS. It must be run
within Mac OS.
thank you for the advise, i'll get the OS X dvd
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