Re: Sad day...

2011-10-09 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 8-10-2011 23:21, Joshua Juran ha scritto: Yup, the enormous 512x512 icons didn't ship until 10.5 Leopard Yeah, I was suspecting that. :-) I just chose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu, found Contents/Resources/TextEdit.icns, and opened it (in Preview). Good idea. In my

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread tina
Den Søndag, 9/10 2011, 01:55, Clark Martin skrev: Attaching 2 or more computers to one drive won't physically hurt the firewire interface but it may corrupt the drive. Each computer will mount the drive and there is nothing to keep them from writing contradictory directory information to

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Bruce Ryan
Attaching 2 or more computers to one drive won't physically hurt the firewire interface but it may corrupt the drive. Each computer will mount the drive and there is nothing to keep them from writing contradictory directory information to the disk. So don't do it. too bad, sounded like

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Dan
At 1:40 AM +0200 10/9/2011, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: lacie back up drive with 3 firewire ports on the back [snip] wondering if I could just hook those two up to the drive as well? No. Multiple computer devices on an i/o bus (scsi, firewire, usb, etc), are not supported by OS X or the HFS+ file

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread tina
Den Søndag, 9/10 2011, 10:49, Dan skrev: At 5:59 PM +0200 10/9/2011, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: what other ways to use the same back up drive for two puters exists then? CarbonCopyCloner will back up to afp shared volumes, be they NAS or on another computer. hey, lots of interesting info and

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 9, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Dan wrote: Locking was done at the record, block, and file level. Very cool. Very disappointing that this type of high reliability file system went the way of the dodo, except for enterprise Unix solutions. It's something that I think OS X should have had

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 9, 2011, at 2:09 PM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: maybe a stupid question, but I never succeded in accessing the old g3 from 10.4 or 10.5 - I can only do it the other way around - i.e., I can access the 10.x macs from 9.2.2, but not the 9.2.2 from 10.x Sometimes I use HTTP to transfer

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Clark Martin
On Oct 9, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Bruce Ryan wrote: Attaching 2 or more computers to one drive won't physically hurt the firewire interface but it may corrupt the drive. Each computer will mount the drive and there is nothing to keep them from writing contradictory directory information to the

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Dan
At 3:14 PM -0700 10/9/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 9, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Dan wrote: Locking was done at the record, block, and file level. Very cool. Very disappointing that this type of high reliability file system went the way of the dodo, except for enterprise Unix solutions. It's

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread tina
another thing about this... so why would I like to daisy-chain some other devices to the drive on the other fw ports? the manual says I can, but I just can't find a reason to do so what devices and why - anyone? tia /tina -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive? Use Ethernet LAN

2011-10-09 Thread Michael Bauchan
Maybe I don't know enough to recognize the problem, but I use one drive for multiple G4 computers running Mac OS 9.2.2 all the time. One G4 computer is used as a Server to which the drive is physically connected by firewire or USB. Then several G4 computers and multiple LaserWriter 16/600

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-09 Thread Stephen Conrad
Wow, listening to ABC you'd think the Apple ][ was a creation solely by Steve Jobs. O yes, his funeral was already held and Apple has said there will not be a public memorial. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote: Apple Inc. to ENGRAVE THE BACK OF THE iPHONE 5

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Todd -
I am using FreeNas 8 on a Pentium 4 computer that was no longer in use and I can store files from Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix if I want and it is easy to connect to from any computer. Running for 3 months and has been great so far. I plan on getting an ATOM board in the future for lower power

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Charles Davis
On Oct 9, 2011, at 11:59 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: well, what other ways to use the same back up drive for two puters exists then? tia /tina How about the obvious Network the two computers and make the attached drive a 'network resource? Chuck D. -- You received this message

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 10-10-2011 2:39, t...@nehaia.dk ha scritto: so why would I like to daisy-chain some other devices to the drive on the other fw ports? the manual says I can, but I just can't find a reason to do so What if you have several FW devices and, say, just one available FW port on the