Re: 1.8 ghz g5 tower

2011-02-04 Thread Ted Treen
From: jason yoinkma...@yahoo.com To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, 3 February, 2011 23:08:18 Subject: Re: 1.8 ghz g5 tower A couple of things have popped up. I have the radeon 9600 card, it starts up when I press the power button in

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

2011-02-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Mama Haymes wrote: This is the information that I received- Printer and mac still not working. One reason I guess is I changed the Jetdirect Card, and the old IP Address is showing in the system, even though I've manually typed in the new IP Address. Here's

Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread John Carmonne
I'm wondering if someone has subscribed to one of the Cloud Services for their PPC Mac's and in what capacity. What I'd like to know is if these services can replace having multiple HDD's to transfer files such as iTunes and iPhoto libraries, or would it be too slow. Also could I store a CCC's

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread Daggett Ken
On 4 Feb 2011, at 06:56:01 PST, John Carmonne wrote: I'm wondering if someone has subscribed to one of the Cloud Services for their PPC Mac's and in what capacity. What I'd like to know is if these services can replace having multiple HDD's to transfer files such as iTunes and iPhoto

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

2011-02-04 Thread Mama Haymes
Here are the latest results- I will try your suggestion from the manual.  Ping has started ... ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: Host is down ping: sendto: Host is down ping: sendto: Host is down ping: sendto: Host is down PING 192.168.1.74 (192.168.1.74): 56 data bytes ---

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

2011-02-04 Thread Mama Haymes
Here is the latest.  Ping has started ... ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: Host is down ping: sendto: Host is down ping: sendto: Host is down ping: sendto: Host is down PING 192.168.1.74 (192.168.1.74): 56 data bytes --- 192.168.1.74 ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 0

Pismo won't boot off HDD or external

2011-02-04 Thread Alex Barnes
First, sorry I'm posting this to this group. I can't seem to join the G-books group without going to the Apple II list and the PowerBooks list nanny takes forever to approve my posts (I posted stuff a month ago and it hasn't been approved yet). I recently got a Pismo and it is refusing to boot

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread Dan
At 6:56 AM -0800 2/4/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I'm wondering if someone has subscribed to one of the Cloud Services for their PPC Mac's and in what capacity. Personally, I like Dropbox because of its automatic sync type features. But there are other forms of cloud storage available - that

General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Here's the deal... I have a 9 year old 3.5 WD 60gb hard drive and as I often get disks like this in trade or whatever, Is there a software program out there that's very good at judging the hardware health of a disk? I haven't had great experiences with s.m.a.r.t status in the past... what

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread John Carmonne
My G5 PM has 5 HDD's and I'd like to retire a lot of external drives, they get a little hard to keep track of and never seem to be big enough.:-) But they're physically in your possesion and you can do whatever you need to maintain them without depending on the largess of a 3rd

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/04 11:02, Jeffrey Engle so eloquently wrote: I have a 9 year old 3.5 WD 60gb hard drive and as I often get disks like this in trade or whatever, Is there a software program out there that's very good at judging the hardware health of a disk? One thing you can do with them is to

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Dan
At 10:02 AM -0800 2/4/2011, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Here's the deal... I have a 9 year old 3.5 WD 60gb hard drive and as I often get disks like this in trade or whatever, Is there a software program out there that's very good at judging the hardware health of a disk? I haven't had great

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread Dan
At 9:52 AM -0800 2/4/2011, John Carmonne wrote: They are individual, five Hitachi 2TB drives 3 with the aid of a Jive Five bracket. The Raid array's seem to not appeal to my limited expeirence on the subject RAID arrays can be intimidating, but they're a nice way to aggregate storage into

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Tina K. wrote: One thing you can do with them is to erase them with the write zeros option. It won't tell you the health of the drive but it will mark out the bad sectors. Tina What I want to do is go one step beyond the zero approach.. Jeff -- You

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Dan wrote: then check the system log for any thrown errors. Ooh, that looks good I'm assuming we're talking about opening a console window, then under the File selection, view the system.log while the zero is taking place Jeffrey Engle Kamiah, Idaho

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Dan wrote: Use the free tools you already have: Zero the drive with Disk Utility, then check the system log for any thrown errors. - Dan. -- This is what I get: Feb 4 10:56:08 The-iMac-C2D fseventsd[42]: could not open

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Albert Carter
Does Macintosh have a port of hdparm? Not sure but that works really well in Linux. It allows you to find out how long the drive has been running, access the direct SMART information, test it, and several other neat features. From: Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com To:

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Albert Carter wrote: Does Macintosh have a port of hdparm? Not sure but that works really well in Linux. It allows you to find out how long the drive has been running, access the direct SMART information, test it, and several other neat features. I have

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Albert Carter wrote: I don't know if Parallels allows you to mount a drive directly for only use in parallels or not. Drives are available to the machine as a whole, seen on any OS running as it's own? so you're probably right there. Not to mention that me and

Re: General Disk hardware health?

2011-02-04 Thread Albert Carter
I'm not 100% sure but I don't think it will work with a virtual machine as you need direct kernel access to the harddrive. I don't know if Parallels allows you to mount a drive directly for only use in parallels or not. From: Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Cc:

Drive Genius

2011-02-04 Thread awilson64
What Drive Genius won't do is tell you why it can't complete a diagnostic or repair. I don't remember what my copy cost me, but where it has let me down several times is when I really needed it so as to decide whether to change out an internal hard drive for whatever reason. --Evan -- You

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread Chance Reecher
If your external drives never seem big enough, then the Cloud is definitely not for you. Most services provide less than 100GB - and that's for a hefty monthly fee. Most of the free options are in the single digits GB-wise. Not only do cloud services provide a relatively small amount of storage

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread JoeTaxpayer
Exactly. If John has 10TB internal, the next step is either a series of external drives or to use another Mac as a server. My main Mac is a pro, but I have a number off MDD G4s, one of whom has no monitor, I view it over network, and use it to host more drive space. 2 SATA cards and it's good for

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-04 Thread Alex Barnes
I would get a RAID docking station, 5, 1 or 2 TB HDDs and an eSATA card for your G5. 5 or 10 TB of storage should be plenty for anything you need. Or you can get a data center grade tape drive but that would be slow and expensive. I'm wondering if someone has subscribed to one of

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

2011-02-04 Thread tina
On Fredag, 4/2 2011, 04:43, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/02/03 19:20, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: If you know the IP address of the printer you can open a terminal window and type ping and the address That's handy, but is there a way to stop it short of closing the window? Tina ping -c

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

2011-02-04 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/04 17:58, t...@nehaia.dk so eloquently wrote: On Fredag, 4/2 2011, 04:43, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/02/03 19:20, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: If you know the IP address of the printer you can open a terminal window and type ping and the address That's handy, but is