Re: Has this ever happened to you?

2012-08-27 Thread Clark Martin
Sent from an iPhone, don't ask whose. On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: >There is probably only 2 things that could have caused this: 1st the CD > broke going in when the thing comes down to grab the disc by the hole because > of a miss alignment or 2nd It spun up to ove

Re: G4 MDD SCSI (pref non PCI)

2012-08-27 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi, I was hoping for a SCSI adapter running from the Firewire 400 bus. Haven't found one though. I'm not sure I really trust USB adapters for this purpose. Not so much from the transfer rates, but more because there have been so many poor quality USB interfaces (speaking generally), and due t

Re: G4 MDD SCSI (pref non PCI)

2012-08-27 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi Clark, Thanks for your reply. My other PCI cards are Creamware/Sonic Core Scope DSP cards (3x) and one AGP video card. The Scope cards can run under OSX, but I'm mainly working with 9 due to the OASYS PCI. I'm also more familiar with OS 9 than X. As for slow transfer rates with USB 1, I

Re: Has this ever happened to you?

2012-08-27 Thread Dan
At 7:47 PM -0700 8/27/2012, Clark Martin wrote: You should check out the Myth Busters episode about exploding optical drives. It was one of their first episodes. Short story is that with normal discs no drive they tried could destroy a disc. I think they did have some failure after abusing t

Re: G4 MDD SCSI (pref non PCI)

2012-08-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 27, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Oliver Fairhall wrote: All my PCI slots are taken up. All three? Isn't there one card you could move or sacrifice? I would like to know what is the best featured/most reliable option for adding SCSI for this machine, that doesn't use a PCI slot? You covered t

Re: Has this ever happened to you?

2012-08-27 Thread Richard Gerome
There is probably only 2 things that could have caused this: 1st the CD broke going in when the thing comes down to grab the disc by the hole because of a miss alignment or 2nd It spun up to over 10,000rpm maybe it was 20,000 (Just like Clark said about Myth Busters figured out how much rp

Re: G4 MDD SCSI (pref non PCI)

2012-08-27 Thread Clark Martin
On Aug 27, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Oliver Fairhall wrote: > I have a G4 MDD (FW 400, not 800 model), which I would like to add SCSI to. > All my PCI slots are taken up. I am mainly using this with OS 9.2.2. I would > like to know what is the best featured/most reliable option for adding SCSI > for

Re: Has this ever happened to you?

2012-08-27 Thread Clark Martin
On Aug 27, 2012, at 7:29 PM, smac0031 wrote: > None of this worked. The drive wouldn't open. I tried a paper clip and > that wouldn't work. I tried rebooting the machine and that didn't > help. I gave up and shut the machine down and pried the drive open. > > The CD was in chunks. It literally e

G4 MDD SCSI (pref non PCI)

2012-08-27 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi folks, I have a G4 MDD (FW 400, not 800 model), which I would like to add SCSI to. All my PCI slots are taken up. I am mainly using this with OS 9.2.2. I would like to know what is the best featured/most reliable option for adding SCSI for this machine, that doesn't use a PCI slot? I use

Has this ever happened to you?

2012-08-27 Thread smac0031
I was playing my favorite game, Master of Orion II. Then I quit the game and ejected the CD and noticed there was a crack in the inner ring. So I decided it might be a good time to make a backup copy of this CD, if it were possible. I tried Disk Utility first and thought it might be better to use T