Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: OTOH, when I close Skype (v. 2.8.0.866) it often gives an error (like Unexpectedly quit or something). This is a bug in Skype, there's an open bug report that's been confirmed. The last version of Skype that runs without randomly crashing

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-18 Thread geraldcornish
Don't know why, but this happens on one of our Pismo's every time we start up, but not from a soft restart. Ged On 17 /03/ 2012, at 22:22, Valter Prahlad wrote: Hi all! My PM G5 2.7 DP goes generally fine, but it has some quirks now and then. This one is quite odd: once in a while

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-18 Thread gifutiger
Va;ter. Try a PRAM and VRAM reset and see what happens. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:22:19 PM UTC-7, Valter Viglietti wrote: Hi all! My PM G5 2.7 DP goes generally fine, but it has some quirks now and then. This one is quite odd: once in a while (let's say once

How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread Dan A
Hello all... I have an external disk for backup which I've been using for some time, both for TM and CCC backups. It is connected to my 17 G4 1.33 GHz Powerbook using FW. I see that it is not bootable. Disk Utility shows that it has a GUID Partition Table, while other external drives that I have

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-18 Thread gifutiger
John, If it is your Spotlight then click on the Spy Glass in the upper right corner and you should see a message that Spotlight is indexing your system. If you have more than one drive then the message will say which drive is being indexed. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Saturday, March 17,

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread Wayne Stewart
When formatting with Disk Utility, instead of selecting Erase instead select Partition Under Volume Scheme it'll say Currant, change that to 1 partition Now click on the options button and you will be able to select Apple Partition Map On Mar 18, 9:26 am, Dan A listmis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-18 Thread Dan
At 1:20 AM -0400 3/18/2012, JohnV wrote: mdimport seems to be the one... Ok. Give it time. Once its done the indexing, it should go away. If it persists for more than a few hours, then it might be stuck or the index might be corrupted. Spotlight issues have been covered in quite a few

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread dan auerbach
Thank you for your fast reply and help Wayne. I've done this several times in the past but just had a memory lapse. Really do appreciate your help. dan_A http://littleurl.net/danauerbach On 18-Mar-12, at 12:59 PM, Wayne Stewart wrote: When formatting with Disk Utility, instead of

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread Chance Reecher
If I recall correctly, PPC macs can only boot from GUID drives if they have 10.5 or later on them. If you have 10.4 you're out of luck and need to reformat the drive as Apple Partition Map. Chance On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Dan A listmis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all... I have an

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Dan A wrote: Hello all... I have an external disk for backup which I've been using for some time, both for TM and CCC backups. It is connected to my 17 G4 1.33 GHz Powerbook using FW. I see that it is not bootable. Disk Utility shows that it has a GUID Partition

Carbon Copy got strange?

2012-03-18 Thread JohnCarmonne
I have a drive with a 39Gig 10.5.8 system and when I make a CCC of it on another drive it produces a 22.3 Gig file I've done it several times and I get the same results. I have the entire source drive selected. I'm using version 3.4.3 with maintain a bootable copy no archive. I never noticed

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 18, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Chance Reecher wrote: If I recall correctly, PPC macs can only boot from GUID drives if they have 10.5 or later on them. If you have 10.4 you're out of luck and need to reformat the drive as Apple Partition Map. Yes, this is my understanding also, but recently

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread dan auerbach
On 18-Mar-12, at 9:50 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm 99% certain that a GUID partition HD with Leopard 10.5 will boot a PPC Mac, but I can't seem to find any confirmation of this. I thought there was an official Apple KBA that confirms this, but I couldn't find it? I forgot to include the

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 18, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 18, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Chance Reecher wrote: If I recall correctly, PPC macs can only boot from GUID drives if they have 10.5 or later on them. If you have 10.4 you're out of luck and need to reformat the drive as Apple Partition

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-18 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 18-03-2012 7:52, Kris Tilford ha scritto: OTOH, when I close Skype (v. 2.8.0.866) it often gives an error (like Unexpectedly quit or something). This is a bug in Skype, there's an open bug report that's been confirmed. Oh, thanks. If I close the Skype window, and only then I quit