Personally I would get a sata to ide adapter and get any modern small reputable
ssd. Clone it with ccc or similar.
You won't have trim but with garbage collection on the drive and the bottleneck
of the ide bus it should still be way faster and outlast the rest of the G4.
Last time i researched
Stop using the hard drive immediately.
There are commercial utilities available. You will have to look for one that
still supports 10.5 or has an older version available that will support 10.5.
It's also possible that you could mount the disk from a more modern operating
system and use such a
I'm almost positive that my old d-link 802.11g pci card was supported on my
DA g4. I'll check the model number later but finding one on ebay for peanuts
should be easy.
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On Apr 9, 2015, at 14:43, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
Cheap solution is buy a USB
Have you tried vlc? They have old versions for leopard and tiger.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
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On Aug 6, 2014, at 12:24, geraldcornish geraldcorn...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver (2002) 800mhz, OS10.4.11 (Tiger).
I
You might look at a used several years old velociraptor on the popular auction
site. Otherwise any 7200rpm drive should do just fine for you. Personally I've
had drives from every maker except Samsung fail, but it is probably only a
matter of time for them too.
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On
Trim is outside the realm of possibility. Not sure If doing an erase free space
procedure monthly or so would help a bit. Modern drive garbage collection is
pretty good. Anybody got any benchmarks? I picked up a velociraptor to use in
an old G4 rather than try to work through SSD issues.
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I disagree. There are plenty of websites and resources available for Intel era
macs.
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On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote:
Dear Listers,
I would like our Group to start including Intel Macs. I think that many of
us are
It should display something if it is looking for the OS on the HD but doesn't
find it. I would recommend these steps:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2094
To start. This will help narrow down the culprit.
-Doc Jimbo
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On Dec 4, 2012, at 3:43 PM, jayson skinner
Im a slackware friend, but slackintosh hasn't had a release in 4 years. Might
be dead.
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On Nov 16, 2012, at 12:10 AM, Jesse StJohn jesselorenstj...@gmail.com wrote:
try slackintosh, decent slackware derivative for ppc. or lfs..
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:34
If you upgraded the video, consider lubuntu. Otherwise xubuntu might be your
best bet. Many people enjoy mintppc.
Check out
http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.com/
http://mac.linux.be/
http://ppcluddite.blogspot.com/
For more info. Ubuntu basds installs may be a bit more bug free. Mint has a
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