I have an old Power Mac G4 and I was wondering what is the best Mac OS
X version.I was also wondering which is the best Ubuntu version for
it.I don't want 6.06.
I've been running 11.04 on an AMD and it works pretty well.
I think 10 is a little more to my liking, however.
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I've seen G5 towers starting to go at the $300-$400
range.
Dual G5s have recently sold on LEM for in the $200 (about $250, shipped).
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I'd strongly urge you to look at the PC hackintosh options because for
the same price you can end up with an Intel Mac that's many orders
of magnitude faster than ANY upgraded Beige.
And, orders of magnitude more reliable, too.
(Sent from an ASRock P55 Pro Hackintosh, with 8 GB of Corsair
Great idea Kris, you beat me to it. Definitely look into Hackintosh
options.
There are MANY resources out there.
Tonymacx86 supplies a lot of tools for 55-series and later machines, and
some 45-series machines, too.
The DSDTs for every one of the many mobos which I have personally hacked
can
Trying to find how much Watts a specific G4 will pull, I found this quite
good
yet in some specific points incomplete list (in German):
http://www.macinfo.de/hardware/chips.html
So apparently the 7400 pulls 5 Watts at 400 MHz and 6 Watts at 500 MHz. So
5.5
Watts at 450 MHz is a good
I'll give it a try. What bothers me is that this Quicksilver is running a
dual
800 MHz processor module quite fine. The Dual-800 uses 7450 aka G4e
processors,
the very same are used in the dual 1 GHz processor module. Except for the
additions 2x 200 MHz I cannot see a formal difference
The first and most important question is whether connecting an
internal SATA drive, through its PCI controller, to an external drive
with (among others) an eSATA port by means of a SATA-eSATA adapter
cable even works to begin with, whether the external drive will even
be recognized. If not,
http://www.macgurus.com/store/ecom-prodshow/SATACables.html
A 270-degree iSATA cable is just a variation on the theme of a 90-degree
iSATA cable.
All the mobo manufacturers recommend 90-degree iSATA cables for the
optical drive, as it is generally at the very top of the case.
However, many
Now, the Dual 1.0 GHz from the top-of-the-line Quicksilver 2002 is said
to
work without problems in the original Quicksilver from 2001. At least a
lot
of people have had no problems with such an “upgrade”.
QS 2002 dual 1.0 GHz processors work without modification in a QS 2001 of
any type.
QS 2002 dual 1.0 GHz processors work without modification in a QS 2001
of
any type.
Thanks.
The seller is telling me that the processor module is not compatible with
my
Quicksilver. So I bought something that doesn't work and it is my fault,
because I don't have compatible hardware.
100
Hassles like you're experiencing is the universe's way of telling you
it's time to upgrade your system.
A-men!
BWs are going for exceptionally cheap or even for free.
Even QSs are going for very cheap.
Time to upgrade to at least a Digital Audio.
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I
have found says to simply screw the drives on top of one another, but no
holes are to be found. Should I drill out holes to..no, no, just
kidding. Do I look for rails to set it in next to the HD in there?
You need the two-high drive carrier.
This was initiated with the Rev. 2 BW and
in my experience with my sawtooth, a usb2 card with the NEC chip
works--but other usb cards from my parts bin with other mfr's chips
don't work. the mfr of the chip is silkscreened onto the chip.
TI's chip set is the gold standard for USB 2.0, but later VIAs work as well.
However, early
Here's a link to an eBay search for listings for the items I'm talking
about.
http://bit.ly/nkgFWm
The US$1.00 (plus US$3.29 shipping) cards work perfectly in PCI hacks, and
I would expect these to work in PCI Macks.
OHCI compatibility is the key.
Early VIA chip sets had issues; the current
What would be the best wireless card for a G4 gigabit. It is running
OS10.5.8 and needs to use an HP 4500 wireless printer.
The best is one which utilizes a Broadcom chip set and is recognized as an
Airport Extreme card. This would be a PCI card. However, most
manufacturers have moved on to
It is good to know all this, although right this moment, I am not sure why
I
don't just get a Quicksilver (assuming those still supported OS 9 natively
and not as emulation). I know at this point I need to find a new zip
drive
as this one is on it's last leg. I was writing data and it is
ZIPs are way obsolete, you should find plenty around (not many being SCSI,
maybe)
Just as CD-Rs replaced Zips, for most purposes, even back when a CD-R cost
$8.00 and came in a jewel case, DVD5s are replacing CD-Rs.
I get name-brand DVD5s for about $0.10 apiece and can store 4700 megabytes
on
AFAIK, DVD-5s are regular DVD: 5 is short for 4.7GB, while DVD-9
should be Double Layer DVDs (much more expensive), holding approx.
8.5 GB.
The original architectural specification was 5.0 GB and 9.0 GB total
usable capacity.
Along the way, additional error checking codes were added for
Ethernet can be twitchy. It's supposed to be hot pluggable, but if
there's any static around, the surge / spike can damage the ports
involved. In a sometimes futile attempt to protect from damage, if
the software driver detects a problem it immediately shuts down the
port... and it won't
I assume that any ethernet card with 8169 chip set is compatable with
my QS, like some other components regardless of posted OS
compatability.
Cause I found some on Ebay with a minor alphabet between the R and
the 8169.
R8169, RTL8169 and others identify the (32-bit) PCI-based gigabit
I'd be hard pressed to find value in these machines. I recently gave
away two beige G3s, but even then, I paid shipping to find them a new
home. My PowerMac 7xxx were trashed. Sad.
Alas, the 7300 was designed and released as the 8600 and 9600 were being
designed and released.
Although the
Do the Sata drives use less power then ide or ultra ata?
Almost no power is consumed in the interface, so IDE, PATA (UATA) or SATA
would be a wash.
All drives are using a voice coil positioner with in-track servo, so that
would be a wash, too.
Most of the power is consumed in the spindle
These new-fangled eco friendly drives aren't really something new,
they're just spinning slower, 3200 or 4500rpm instead of 7200 or
1 - which makes them less expensive and higher profit.
A slower spinning drive should also mean the drive is less mechanically
stressed and - therefore -
Wow, that's quite the difference, why is SL so much cheaper than Leo?
Apple has revised its MacOS X marketing strategy several times.
10.5 cost way, way more than 10.6.
10.7 non-server cost the same as 10.6 non-server.
The 10.7 server option costs only $50, which is about one-fifth the cost
IIRC, this is because the $29 Snow Leopard disc is an upgrade disc
intended to be installed over Leopard.
This is incorrect.
All $29 retail Snow Leopard disks are full versions, capable of being
installed on any machine, even one which has no OS of any kind at all.
THERE WERE NO retail
I am not familiar with it. Did they use those funny screws with the
star or hex pattern and little nipple in the center?
Yes. It looks like that. Almost a mini-Torx, but smaller and
shallower.
If so, you can buy the bits at a specialty fastener store and probably
on-line if you
can figure
As someone who has noticed my Phillips head screwdrivers are too often
NOT the best fit to the Phillips I'm trying to unscrew, where can
one find a screw driver which is a better fit for these JIC-standard
cuciform?
I usually buy these drivers from a Xcelite distributor.
I presume there
My question is, could an enclosure that originally held a 250 GB drive
handle a 2 or 3 TB?
Surely 500 GB or even 640 GB.
Possibly 1 or even 1.5 TB.
Probably not 2 or 3 TB.
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How do I set up the router to prevent this .. I know it is some sort of
password but I can not seem to find the staring point to begin the
process.
Setup your router to require WPA protection.
Additionally, select as your password something which is impossible to
guess, except using a
1)What is the difference between a retail drive and a bare
drive? I see different stock numbers and the retail drive has a
warranty of 5 years vs the 3 years of the bare drive. The current
sata drive is a Seagate bare drive from OWC. That one seems pretty
good so far.
A retail drive
WPA2 is what's recommended, same process to find it as I described.
My router offers a mode called WPA/WPA2 in addition to WPA and WPA2.
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section. Usually, I use the first 30 characters as my router's password.
I
also use randomly generated SSIDs and ... especially important ...
router
master passwords.
I'm curious, Peter, how do you use randomly
Is it true that you have to have SL to do the upgrade?
No, it is NOT true.
And NO, it is NOT an upgrade, it it actually an installer onto 10.6.8, and
it can be made into a true installer, and ... indeed ... an installer
which needs no other OS of any kind in order to install Lion onto a target
Are these other processors you mention what would be in an old MacBook
Pro?
No they're specific Intel chipsets on generic PeeCees. Lion requires a
Core 2 Duo processor or better, excluding the first gen MBP's with their
core Duo cpus, which are 32-bit only. Lion is strictly 64 bit..
Until
Lion is strictly 64 bit..
Meaning the OS is 100% 64 bit, or the OS and Apps are 100% 64 bit?
Lion is intended to be 64-bit, but only the Finder MUST run in 64-bit. The
kernel is 32-/64-bit as is almost everything else (except the Finder).
You may boot Lion into 32-bit (arch=i386, in the boot
I've been looking for a new iMac. The new 2.7GHz quad core i5 21.5
inch monitor iMac is what I've got my eye on, but I can't find out if
it has Snow Leopard on it. I don't want Lion at this time. Does
anyone know for sure what OS and where I can get it?
Lion is a significant and dramatic
Below the optical drive there's room (and, I think, cables) for a second
unit; in my G4, they are used for the Zip drive, so I couldn't add an HD
there.
The Zip drive bays may, in general, be used to house hard drives.
In some cases, particularly with pre-QSes, it may be necessary to apply
Are there any solutions or fans recommended to quiet it down a little bit?
If a fan is noisy, the bearings are shot and the fan should be replaced.
The lubricant in the bearings is lubricated for life ... the life of the
lubricant, not the life of the motor. The motor is probably still good,
sounds like advice from someone selling PSUs, or else . . . .
Nope.
this discussion has appeared on the lem lists before, in regard to
servicing emacs and other all-in-one boxes that contain a CRT. there
is no danger if you follow simple guidelines, and minimal danger of
mild discomfort
2) is the DA PS the same as the G3 BW as I have some spares?
The DA uses the same ps as the Gig-e
Hmmm I'm no hardware expert, but (still according to MacTracker) the
GE
has 220W max power, while the DA has 338W.
That seemd quite a difference.
The PSUs are identical with these
Is this 28v vitally important to operating the DA, or is it only needed
for ADC monitors?
Only employed by the ADC monitors.
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I run my office on a BW G3 450mhz, 512mb RAM, rev 2 (IDE controller chip
ends in 402), OS 9.2.2; 30GB maxtor on drive 0 (startup drive), and 20GB
drive on drive 1, another in the zip slot.
I've tried just having a 2nd HD in the zip slot, and not using IDE1, but
get
freezes anyway. I've
If you haven't, have you tried changing the IDE cable? First thing that
should be tried. Regardless if you've tried both master and slave, try a
new cable.
Good point.
The old 40-pin/40-wire IDE cables had #28 AWG stranded wire conductors
which were pretty much immune to breaking.
The new
No it will not 'just work' as there are no USB 3.0 drivers in OS X. LaCie
has a driver for their devices, but it's intel-only.
The LaCie driver does indeed only work for its card, and it enforces its
ownership over both the card and ANY attached USB 3.0 devices.
However, the LaCie driver is
USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5? can this be done?
I've seen various PCIe cards out there, but the question is, will they
just work? has anybody tried this and what was your results.
General guidance ...
PCI-e 1x cards with a Renesas chip work with the hacked LaCie driver (see
below).
However, the LaCie driver is Universal, NOT Intel.
Not according to LaCiethat's interesting...
LaCie is well-known for deliberately misrepresenting their products in
order to limit the options of their customers.
I guess this would be more likely to be called customer management, in
The name of the driver is PXHCD.kext.
So being the novice that I am…. assuming I can find this .kext file, how
do I install it? and is there any dangers to the system if I do? please
forgive my ignorance. Jeff
Move it into /System/Library/Extensions.
Then rebuild the permissions using Disk
If you zero out a hard drive with Disk Utility to map out the bad
blocks, are they notated in a permanent fashion or will a simple
reformat lose the bad block map.
In a modern drive, the defects map is created when the drive is
manufactured and it is stored in a ROM within the drive.
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.
The IBM System/360 and
I just put a USB 3.0 PCIe card and driver from LaCie in my Mac Pro 2.66
Quad and the card only supports LaCie devices. Does anyone know of a
universal driver?
LaCie intentionally designed its driver so that only its own branded card
and only its own branded external devices could be
I need some advice: I now have a PowerMac G5 DualCore 2.3GHz unit
(late 2005), one of the last models, and that uses the PCI-E
architecture.
I need to make it wireless for access to our home network printing.
However, I have come to find out that the special Airport Extreme/
Bluetooth Combo
You can use one of these Mini PCIe cards if you have a Mini PCIe to
PCIe adapter card. This kind is nice:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=130501831715
This Mini PCIe adapter combo is probably best and cheapest
alternative. You could use any PCIe only card, or USB
Ok I've done this but it still won't mount a USB 3.0 drive but it does
mount a 2.0 as it always did from the start. Do I need to uninstall the
LaCie driver?
IF it mounts a 2.0 or a 1.1, but will not mount a 3.0, something is really
strange.
BE SURE the card is powered by a separate cable, as
Ok I've done this but it still won't mount a USB 3.0 drive but it does
mount a 2.0 as it always did from the start. Do I need to uninstall the
LaCie driver?
IF it mounts a 2.0 or a 1.1, but will not mount a 3.0, something is really
strange.
BE SURE the card is powered by a separate cable, as
Thank you for the advice, both from you and Kris. I believe i still
have some homework to do. Do you have a specific brand, unit that you
recommend? Are all PCI-E mini cards that same size/form factor?
There are two mini-PCI-e form factors, and some Asian sellers sell both,
while others sell
Okay, I am looking at this model here, just for comparison and
continued learning:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GDTIK4/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8me=seller=
1) is this compatible w/ Leopard?
Yes, and Snow Leopard and Lion.
It is accepted by MacOS X as a third party Airport
Thank you, Peter! Much information (not more than I wanted, just more
than expected! :-)
I appreciate the effort and time to type it all up; it is indeed very
helpful.
Glad to be of some help.
Out of curiosity, the intended AirPort slot in my G5/PCI-E dual core:
is that really a
And a thank you here also.
So, if I bought this card mentioned in my query (you indicate it is
a standard size), would I then by something like this?
http://www.amazon.com/MiniPCI-E-to-PCI-E-Wireless-Adapter/dp/B003MMY14Y/ref=pd_cp_e_1
And then I would be good to go?
This adapter supports
You can get a USB adapter to about $15 - ant reason why you need a PCI
card?
For a supported card, such as a Broadcom 4313, 4318 and 4322, they're
supported out of the box by MacOS X. No drivers or any other stuff to
install.
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It says all you have to do is plug it in. But I guess you have your heart
set on a card when a $15 dongle will do.
A $15 USB dongle WON'T DO as each manufacturer has its own set of drivers,
and not every USB dongle manufacturer issues MacOS X drivers. In fact,
rather few actually do.
Heck,
I use RALink drivers on the N speed dongles and Realtek on the G speed
dongles, They work pretty good but once in a while I loose connection and
have to reboot to reload the driver so IMHO the AirPort approach is the
best if you can get a Card cheap.
Ralink is a good manufacturer, too, but
This adapter supports both long (standard size) and short WiFi cards and
three antennas.
This ...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Broadcom-1521-1520-1526-802-11b-g-Wireless-Wifi-MINI-PCIe-Card-DW1390-/370545176016
... is also a good option.
These are generally called a Dell DW1390, but as can
Uh. Yes. You are right, Tina. I bought the Mac Pro last summer, and
bumped to 12GB, 3 x 4GB sticks. I was told to remove the 4th small
stick to improve performance.
My un-educated internet research revealed that three identical sticks
ran faster than two, and four sticks ran inbetween two
I checked out this option and asked the seller about it; very kind
person, verified it's a RAlink Chipset. Have you had good success with
it?
Does it show up as an Airport card out of the box?
The ONLY cards which show up as AirPort out of the box are those which
Apple specifically supports
The dropbox logo shows up on the Dropbox folder. no it's not something
even Apple's SWAT team has been able to do because it's not something
Apple's SWAT team has ever been tasked to do. It's up there with renaming
the boot hard drive in difficulty,
Clueless reporter.
Like ...
I'm running
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB
to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up,
speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the
$100.00 range.
Seagate is selling USB 2.0 external drives (which include, and require
Sounds like your PRAM battery has given up the ghost. They're not too
expensive, around 5 bucks or so, and super easy to replace.
Look for:
1/2 AA 3.6 volt lithium battery
These are made by EVERY major manufacturer of batteries in the World.
Most older desktop Macs used these batteries, but
More modern machines, and particularly PeeCees, use a CR2032, which is
also a lithium battery, but is only 3.0 volts.
CR2032s are available everywhere.
FWIW, CR2032s (20mm dia, 3.2mm thk) have a rated open-circuit (i.e., no
load) voltage of 3.6, and a rated load voltage of 3.0.
The CMOS
i've read that the batteries will be drained more, by the mobo, if the
Mac is unplugged from the electrical socket.
The trickle function works even though the Mac appears to be powered-off.
PeeCee PSUs generally work the same way as the low-powered microprocessor
which performs the
Following the recommendations of a number of people on the list I
bought a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 1 TB USB 2.0 External Hard
Drive STAC1000100 (Black). I erased it per Time Machine and it works
great. My thanks to all who commented or made suggestions. This list
is invaluable!
Fry's
Doesn't Apple treat IDE channel drives, as if they were SCSI in some
sense? I thought they did for a while ... maybe this might explain the
mystery or SCSI voodoo, as it is called ... and, then again, maybe not.
Nope ... as long as there has been IDE/PATA in Macs, there has been an
IDE/PATA
IDE PCI cards appear as SCSI cards for some reason, I think that is what
you are referring to.
This is because at the time Firmtek was designing their Mac ROM for the
Promise ATA/33 card, the only model device which would work was one which
was modeled as if it was a SCSI device.
Sadly,
I have a Quicksilver 733Mhz G$ Tiger.
Ebay has a 1gig dual up for bid.
Is it possible to upgrade to 1 gig cpu?
It is, but you MUST get the dual 1.0 GHz heat sink with the dual 1.0 GHz
processor card, and it is best to get the fan unit as well.
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Thanks. Is there a different heat sink?
It is, but you MUST get the dual 1.0 GHz heat sink with the dual 1.0 GHz
processor card, and it is best to get the fan unit as well.
Most definitely.
Although the form factor of the processor card is the same between single
and duals, and the bottom
Some people here is very fond of hackintoshes (PCs hacked to run OSX).
If you're short on cash and like to tinker (and study), that might be a
viable route.
Not much study is required these days.
Professionally written Guides are available for a great many
configurations from netbooks to
Some people here is very fond of hackintoshes (PCs hacked to run
OSX).
If you're short on cash and like to tinker (and study), that might be a
viable route.
Not much study is required these days.
You sure? Aren't you underestimating your own know-how? :-)
Perhaps my perspective is
This isn't Linux. People don't normally kernel hack OS X and rebuild
their kernels. I suppose if you really wanted to, you could hunt down
the Darwin source code and build a custom kernel with it. You'd
probably be missing some key functionality, though, because I believe
Apple kept quite a
In principle, I agree with you. It is possible to hack your kernel,
it's just not commonly done for PPC. I used to build custom monolithic
kernels all the time under Linux kernel 1.2, but the need diminished
as more functionality was added to the kernel and the ability to use
modules was
Messing around with older systems and
trying to get the most out of them is a fun hobby.
As is messing around with much, much NEWER systems, and getting them to
work on the latest and greatest version of MacOS X.
There is NO REASON to expect everyone to adopt the latest and greatest
hardware
I'd like to know why my eSATA card on my PM G5 dual 2.7 transfers
files no faster than my F/W400 or F/W 800. Can it be the enclosure? I
get the same results on my Mac Pro.
Which eSATA card?
The LaCie card and the very similar OWC card are based upon the Initio
chip set and that chip set is
Why are the PCI ports on the PowerMac G4s so long? On PCs they are
about 3 1/2 long but on a PowerMac G4 they are about 5
The early, low integration PCI cards needed all the space which could be
provided by the original IBM specification for the PC.
Still, even on a late Mac PPC, long cards
i'd like to add FAX capability.
FAX is a nearly extinct technology, killed off by the internet. I can
understand needing to send or perhaps receive one FAX, but adding
FAX capability when the number of FAX machines available to
communicate with is quickly vanishing seems futile.
With the
Okay, a while ago I received great advice from some colleagues here
regarding wireless cards and a G5 with a PCI-E slot compatibility.
After doing some homework, I purchased one of those mini PCI_E
adapters and then a PCI-E wireless card to fit into it.
Installed the completed unit with out
Is ther a command of some kind that I can send to the router from the
basementor must I continue to make that long walk to the garage?
Log into the router's GUI interface using IP address 192.168.1.1 and then
list the log, check it out, and, finally, issue the REBOOT command.
This can be
More than that in some cases. I bough a 3TB drive not long ago,
Hitatchi. Was $120. Today the exact same drive is $250. (HDD 3T|
HITACHI 0S03230 5.4 K)
The Thailand floods are having a huge impact on the bare drive market.
Glad I am in no rush to buy more storage right now.
Price per GB has
I think this is the card you need or the after market copy of it.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-G4-G5-Airport-Extreme-Wireless-network-Card-54M-/280587923128?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item415457eeb8
Apple's cards are proprietary. While they may be based upon an otherwise
open interface, they
I am new to the group and glad to know you are out there!
I have a G4 PowerPC and even with the powered hub i added some of my
devices aren't working (iPhone, IceCam2) Isn't this because ultimately
the 2.0 usb is plugged into a 1.1 port? I purchased an iogear that was
recommended not to
SCSI was a great interface in it's day.
SCSI over fiber and other serial channel transport means are still in wide
use.
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No Apple hasn't outsourced their customer support to some unknown domain.
I can confirm that as I used to be married to the Director of that
specific area within Apple.
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Now if someone can come up with a hack to let me de-solder part of the
ECC stick to turn it into a non-ECC... that would be fantastic!
Parity will work but ECC will not.
Also, the RAM must be unbuffered and not registered.
Machines in the gigabit through Quicksilver era have just enough
The speed of the RAM isn't the issue, it's whether or not it's low-
density or high-density RAM. The G3 requires low-density meaning
modules that are populated on both sides by chips, 16 chips total. If
your modules only have 8 chips on one side they're high density and
should only recognize
A very easy way that involves no extra work is get a self tapping skew
skew???
SCREW.
There are alternatives, but a suitable self-tapping screw, not a machine
screw, will often work.
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Really? I have 22 of them here collecting dust.
That surely beats my record on unit count, but not on weight.
I have NINE Apple Network Servers, one 500 and eight 700s. Two of the 700s
are factory remanufactured equal to new. Most have 200 MHz processor
cards. All have the architectural
That surely beats my record on unit count, but not on weight.
I have NINE Apple Network Servers, one 500 and eight 700s. Two of the
700s
are factory remanufactured equal to new. Most have 200 MHz processor
cards. All have the architectural maximum of 512 MB main storage and the
1
MB cache
This sounds more like the electrical circuits in the room where you're
working are poorly grounded or floating.
If supplied from an ungrounded (two-wire) receptacle, the two lines will
float at about 60 volts above ground ... one half of the nominal 120 volt
line to neutral voltage.
The
i watched the youtube video. i would think the first thing to fail would
be the power supply fan. its little motor is designed to spin in air,
which has virtually zero viscosity, not mineral oil. maybe the mineral oil
will keep the motor cool enough when under the heavier load of moving
thanks. i'll crack it open and see if i left a sweater in there.
Apple's PSUs are pretty good, but they are obviously built to a
competitive price point. Usually in Hong Kong, Taiwan or, now, mainland
China.
NO high-cost components as would be found on, say, an IBM mainframe
computer PSU,
Don't know anything about your particular router, but all the ones I
have used have a simple log in page, generally accessed at http://
192.168.1.1/ or something close to that. After logging in, there
will be a number of administrative pages, one of which will show
users. You will need to
However, I did a test to sidestep SCSI termination issues - I have an old
SCSI CD-ROM external drive case, and put a working SCSI HD in it. It
mounts, shows up on SCSI Bus 1. But the new 80 pin SCSI + adapter doesn't
mount when placed in the external enclosure.
The 8600 has two SCSI buses: a
Incidentally, people are asking for some ridiculous prices for 50-pin SCSI
drives on eBay. Legacy apparently becomes antique at some point. I was
advised earlier on this forum that SCA drives were a workable option.
50-pin SCSI became archaic YEARS and YEARS ago.
Manufacturer capacity was
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