Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-08 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:12 AM, t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: Same with me and my dual 1.25 MDD I already had the latest update fan works fine on Leopard but cycles on OS 9 also have two DVD drives with no way to open the secondary drive in OS 9 other

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-08 Thread Todd -
The eject key on the Apple keyboard works for me Todd On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:12 AM, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: Same with me and my dual 1.25 MDD I already had the latest update fan works fine on Leopard but cycles on OS 9 also

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-08 Thread rogerd095
On Jan 5, 4:12 pm, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: Same with me and my dual 1.25 MDD I already had the latest update fan works fine on Leopard but cycles on OS 9 also have two DVD drives with no way to open the secondary drive in OS 9

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-08 Thread Todd -
Toast works good at opening both drives. Thanks Todd On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:42 AM, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails just start Toast and choose the optical drive to open or close. Or at system startup keep the mouse button down and all drives will open IIRC. Regards, Jörg.

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-08 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:18 AM, ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote: Also for those struggling to get OS9 working on MDD's I found a site that may be the answer to all your woes, http://inefficienciestoday.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-getting-mac- os-9-to-work-on-rare.html Hope this helps Ben.

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-07 Thread t...@io.com
On Jan 6, 12:18 pm, ben64sm...@googlemail.com ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jan 5, 11:12 am, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: How do you open the primary drive in OS9? Jeff Walther Try CMD-e or F12 (hold the function key down for

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-06 Thread t...@io.com
On Jan 6, 1:42 am, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails just start Toast and choose the optical drive to open or close. Or at system startup keep the mouse button down and all drives will open IIRC. Or just make sure there's always a disk in the drive. But it seems to me that

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-06 Thread ben64sm...@googlemail.com
On Jan 5, 11:12 am, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP also have two DVD drives with no way to open the secondary drive in OS 9 other than to always leave media in it so I can drag it to the trash. How do you open the primary drive in

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-05 Thread Todd -
Same with me and my dual 1.25 MDD I already had the latest update fan works fine on Leopard but cycles on OS 9 also have two DVD drives with no way to open the secondary drive in OS 9 other than to always leave media in it so I can drag it to the trash. Todd On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:15 PM,

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-05 Thread t...@io.com
On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: Same with me and my dual 1.25 MDD I already had the latest update fan works fine on Leopard but cycles on OS 9 also have two DVD drives with no way to open the secondary drive in OS 9 other than to always leave media in it so I can drag it

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-05 Thread yawg
If all else fails just start Toast and choose the optical drive to open or close. Or at system startup keep the mouse button down and all drives will open IIRC. Regards, Jörg. On 5 jan, 23:12, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: Same with me and

OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-04 Thread t...@io.com
There are two things I'd like to make booting OS 9 on my MDDs really usable, but I'm not even sure if they exist. The first is a utility to open and close the optical drive trays. The second is a utility or extension to control the fan speed. This need not be user control, automated control of

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-04 Thread Greg Kennedy
Assuming you've already installed the 4.4.8 firmware update? http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1179?viewlocale=en_US It says it offers The Power Mac G4 Firmware Update 4.4.8 improves fan control behavior and reduces high speed fan cycling when running in Mac OS 9. You can apparently also get it

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-04 Thread t...@io.com
Greg Kennedy wrote: Assuming you've already installed the 4.4.8 firmware update? http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1179?viewlocale=en_US It says it offers The Power Mac G4 Firmware Update 4.4.8 improves fan control behavior and reduces high speed fan cycling when running in Mac OS 9. You can