I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-24 Thread CCorsair
Hi all i was just given a working G4 system that was set up for Final cut video production but the DVR/DVD burner which is a Pioneer bran is not reading the CD or disk or burning anything. I tried to replaced with a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109 it works for all but the burning the error said it can

Leopard-modest networking issue on a .local cluster

2008-09-24 Thread Dana Collins
Hi all, I know there are some networking gurus on this list - perhaps what I am about to explain sounds familiar and you can point me or my helper in the right direction. I'm on sabbatical so my student administrator assistant is in charge of the music lab (a cluster of G5s running the same

Re: I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-24 Thread PeterH
On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:21 AM, CCorsair wrote: I need to know what model DVD -RW will work to replace and what updates can be done to the sytem that would make it ready to do video again (the DVD burner is one of those things) Any of the later Pioneer drives is good: DVR-109 (which you

Re: I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-24 Thread Technophobic_Tom
On 9/24/08, PeterH wrote: Any of the later Pioneer drives is good: DVR-109 (which you already have), DVR-110, DVR-111. Under OS X (which you say you don't run) all of the above can be supported using PatchBurn, or, depending upon which version of OS X you may have in the future, they will be

Re: I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, where does the DVR-112D stand in this regard for a MDD DP 1.25? . Any drive that works will work in the MDD. There is no model-based differentiation of these drives. ALL of them process data slower than the bus of even

Re: Leopard-modest networking issue on a .local cluster

2008-09-24 Thread Eric Volker
I'm not a networking guru by any means, but I have run into similar problems authenticating from Macs to Windows and Unix servers. In those cases when I had trouble, I used the short account name to authenticate. Is student the long and short name? If the short name is different, try

Recent Finder Problem ... Just Busy Behind the Desktop Scene?

2008-09-24 Thread billycarmacs
On two occasions, since upgrading to 10.5.5, my Finder seems to have gotten into something that keeps it terribly, Beachball Spinning, busy ... First time facts escape me but I think maybe it was Spotlight working ... Today, I moved / installed a Seagate 80GB hard drive from my

Re: I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-24 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 25-09-2008 00:47, PeterH, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: I have no Pioneer drives beyond the DVR-111D as all subsequent purchases were for SATA drives, Sorry Peter, but the DVR-115D/116D are PATA drives. I'll send you the specs if you want. Jo Hissel

Re: MDD startup problem and solution, and a question.

2008-09-24 Thread Dan
At 5:19 PM -0700 9/20/2008, Aaron wrote: A couple of days ago, when I was doing various cabling changes inside my FireWire 800 MDD, at one point it wouldn't start up at all. I mean no visual or aural indication of any activity when I pressed the power button in various ways. Then, after other

Re: I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-24 Thread PeterH
On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:58 PM, J.M.P.Hissel wrote: Peter, where does the DVR-112D stand in this regard for a MDD DP 1.25? . Why not take the, AFAIK, latest Pioneer of these serie, the DVR-116D. Just ordered one for my QS 800/'02. Price in The Netherlands, picked up in the shop (for me

Re: Recent Finder Problem ... Just Busy Behind the Desktop Scene?

2008-09-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:06 PM, billycarmacs wrote: When it came up on the Desktop, I did a Get Info then my Finder just went into Busy Mode ... I could open and play iTunes things, open Mail and look around, but couldn't close them ... each got stuck being partially closed ... and

Re: Leopard-modest networking issue on a .local cluster

2008-09-24 Thread Dana Collins
Hi Erik, Thanks for the post. I believe student is the short name (studentx, where x = station no., is the long name). All the file sharing concerns are Mac stations, but I believe we're using TCP/IP to establish connecting, I know we ditched AppleShare a while ago. Thanks, Dana On 9/24/08 5:11

Re: Leopard-modest networking issue on a .local cluster

2008-09-24 Thread Dana Collins
On 9/24/08 5:32 PM, Dan of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent At 10:05 AM -0700 9/24/2008, Dana Collins wrote: I had her log in as administrator and re-enter/refresh the student password on the ailing stations but that did not seem to work Try turning off the file sharing, wait for it to

Re: Another RAM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Stephen Conrad
OK, I looked and its not listed Siemens HYB39S63160AT-8 Germany A E814936 Up the side it says: 9904 4 Chips on one side of the module On 9/24/08, Stephen Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Sighs* The similar (slightly different number) one I did find stated the seller and size. *Goes to

Re: Another RAM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Stephen Conrad
Ooops, up the end of the chip it says E04936 Board says this: 16-00640A Rev.A It is out of a Gateway Pentium II On 9/24/08, Stephen Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I looked and its not listed Siemens HYB39S63160AT-8 Germany A E814936 Up the side it says: 9904 4 Chips on one

Re: Another RAM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 24, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, I looked and its not listed Siemens HYB39S63160AT-8 Germany A E814936 Up the side it says: 9904 4 Chips on one side of the module What was the other module?(meaning the 2nd one that you could identify?) You just subtract the

Re: Larger drives and slowdowns?

2008-09-24 Thread Dan
At 1:59 PM -0400 9/22/2008, diane wrote: G4 1.42DP, 2gb ram I have a 120gb in there now and was thinking about 2 500's (to mirror or something). I was going to go to SATA for upwards compatibility. The question is, just how much will this slow the machine down? Why would going to a faster disk

Re: Another RAM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I don't remember offhand. I have not set up this machine. I was given this machine and I forgot to ask what amount of RAM it has (or what size HD) I was just going through other computers I have sitting around seeing if I have some RAM I

Re: Recent Finder Problem ... Just Busy Behind the Desktop Scene?

2008-09-24 Thread Vic
On Sep 24, 5:06 pm, billycarmacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On two occasions, since upgrading to 10.5.5, my Finder seems to have   gotten into something that keeps it terribly, Beachball Spinning,   busy ... First time facts escape me but I think maybe it was Spotlight   working ...

Re: Another RAM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Stephen Conrad
I believe the other RAM stick in the PII was a 64M PC100 DIMM Either way, was just wondering what size this other one is since it is in the same machine. On 9/24/08, Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I don't remember offhand. I have not

G3-5 posting delay issues

2008-09-24 Thread Kris Tilford
I sent a response tonight to the thread Recent Finder Problem at 7:50 PM and received my own response at 11:55 PM, a 4 hour 5 minute delay. In between, I sent a response to Another RAM Question at 9:10 PM 9:39 PM and received both my replies in the exact same minute I sent them. What's