On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Cliff Rediger
redicl...@thecriticalcrab.net wrote:
Seagate 9SL154-302 ST31000528AS Barracuda 7200.12 - 1 TB SATA II
. . .
One morning... NOTHING. Suddenly, drive is not recognized at all.
Until you can do something which PROVES that the drive is dead, do not
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Valter Prahlad
valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote:
Il giorno 08/09/13 04.45, Cliff Rediger ha scritto:
Sometimes, though, a drive can be dead with no previous sign.
As an admittedly quite large digression, I would that this is probably
the typical failure case
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
As Peter said, current drives remap bad sectors automagically
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Valter Prahlad
valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote:
I made the clone thru Ethernet file sharing, since I couldn't use Firewire
target mode.
Why couldn't you use Firewire target mode? I'm not saying this would
fix things since I don't know that. It just seems like
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Personally I'd go right on by 10.5 and look for 10.6, at least; if that's a
Core Duo system
that's the top limit you can get to; and there's not much that wasn't
compatible with 10.5
on those that doesn't run
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to post a picture of this bracket but I can't do that obviously
want to see it and give a comment? email me and I'll send you the picture.
An alternate approach is to post the picture to some picture
Last night I booted my friends 800 MHz eMac in target disk mode,
connected it to my MacBook, and used Carbon Copy Cloner to backup her
hard drive to an external drive. This went OK albeit EXTREMELY slowly.
(Time elapsed: 01:52:45. Data copied: 8.43 GB i.e. ~1.25 MB/s (~1.19 MiB/s) ???)
When I
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, faithie999 faithie...@hotmail.com wrote:
zoom makes a usb modem that is about the size of a pack of gum. i
have used one with my macbook pro.
here's the description from amazon--zoom 3095 usb modem
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Also, mine worked quite well for dial-up access back in the day...
Thanks, Bruce. Guess I'll go back to the eBay jungle and poke around some more.
-john
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Jonas Ulrich
jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
Tiger would be faster though...
So how much does a set of retail Tiger install media cost these days?
Where would one look for it?
The ones on eBay seem to cost more than I'd prefer to pay. I am
looking for a price
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
YouTube recently discontinued the fmt tags.
What does discontinued mean? I tried Googling about for some
announcement or other info on just Google did, but didn't come up with
anything.
Does Google just ignore this fmt tag now?
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bruce bsugarb...@core.com wrote:
Sometimes the problem went away after things were changed.
Sometimes the problem did not go away after things were changed.
Sometimes the problem went away for a while after things were
changed, then reoccurred again.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Erik Harperink hbharper...@quicknet.nl wrote:
A new keyboard ($ 30) may be an easier fix in these circumstances.
Not sure if these are a match for what the OP needs, but amazon
marketplace has some sellers offering used keyboards for $15-$20 (And
for more of
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
Yes, John, the drive was a fairly new one and OWC may well replace it
if I can find the receipt and warranty among my mounds of paperwork.
Your receipt should be available online as part of your ordering
information for your account
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
So, I guess the drive and all my data on it are toast.
I forget how this all began but I believe you said the bad drive was
from a 1 TB Mercury Elite Pro external hard drive you bought from OWC
about 1 1/2 years ago, correct?
Since
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:04 AM, AndersFager i...@gottick.com wrote:
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues.
Without having any idea whether or not any of them might apply here
are some things that come to mind:
1) The old drive didn't really have issues. Rather
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote:
I never say never, but I've been watching this industry for nearly 30
years, and suspect that until and unless SSD cost drops to a lower X
of HD, both will be there side by side depending on the platform it
goes in.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Robert Long texasche...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello group, I got a G4 and tonight I plugged it in to see if it will work.
No chime but a screen with a folder and a ? then a happy face. Not the mac
face. Any ideas. I am not too hep on this stuff. If it doesn't have
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:29 AM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I opened the Deskstar and I can see the arm moving across the platters
endlessly, That's the clicking noise. Why is it doing this.
I would assume it is trying to locate the beginning track but is
unable to do so because of
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
Will Apple ever support eSATA?
I tend to doubt it. My total wild-ass speculating guess is that this
might be a Steve Jobs sort of thing. eSATA does not supply power to
the external device and perhaps the Steve has deemed
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely a hardware issue. Looks like it's cycling - it can't get a grip
on the device.
Just wild speculation ... my first thought in a situation like this is
that the device is not getting enough power/current. But usually
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple fixed that. Either partition type works. GUID is simply preferred
for x86 Macs.
I guess the only question I would have is how preferred is it? Using
APM on an external drive I would not worry about because that seems
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Austin Leeds
firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, are you trying to create a wireless distribution system
(connecting one router wirelessly to another)? From what I hear, that
only works if you use multiple Apple routers—you can't mix Apple and
non-Apple
I assume that Apple's preference is to be the one telling its
suppliers what to do, not the other way around. I suspect that's what
this is probably about.
Maybe they'll migrate to AMD, maybe not. At the very least I suspect
it's something like your spouse having lunch with an old flame. Hey,
it
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I want a step-by-step procedure so i can get it running on a Pentium 4 system.
Well, the truth as I understand it that you simply can NOT run OS X on
a PC/bios based Intel computer. At least not without modifying
stuff.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Frank Dutra fdut...@gmail.com wrote:
Opening up the ATA drive slots/sleds would allow me to mount
the 2 SATA drives where apple designed them to be which in theory, may be in
a spot with optimal cooling.
In order to remove either or both of your 30 40 GB you
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:01 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
it's perfectly legal to copy your DVDs if you can
My understanding has been that, yes, you have a right to make backups
for your personal use of copyrighted material which you have
purchased. This is allowed as a fair use of
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:44 AM, PM7500 jburke...@comcast.net wrote:
Are they trying to connect using WPA encryption? I've been trying for
months to get any of my Macs to connect to my Wi-Fi router using WPA
and I can only connect with WEP.
Sorry to hear that. Last time I glanced around, no
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Put it in the external enclosure, plug it in to the Mac, fire up Disk
Utility, select the drive and erase the disk in MS DOS format. You can
repartition the thing if you really want but just erasing the drive
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
actually what I wanted to do is merely see when my niece is surfing on her
laptop so that I don't pig bandwidth downloading stuff etc. Jeff
Why don't you just IM (instant message) your niece before starting a
big download.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Nicholas Fantuzzi snii...@gmail.com wrote:
Yesterday night I put the adapter on a Mac Mini C2D 1,83GHz (Mac Mini 2,1)
and the system doesn't recognize the sled.
I'm very sad! It doesn't work either on a Mac Mini Intel.
A few days ago I tried also with a Mac
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:14 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is the site
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=tiffany+wwe+playboy
I have NoScript and use the latest version of Firefox
So why does this
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote:
Are you sure you can run that old s/w on a G4?
Given my luck with older floppy disks, my question would be whether or
not the OP is sure that his media can still be read. One of the
biggest reasons I stopped using floppy
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd imagine, Firefox will want an Intel chip, and won't run on
the G4 or G5 for that matter.
Depends on what you mean by won't run on the G4 or G5.
Since Firefox is open source it's always possible (in theory at
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:02 PM, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote:
My G5 crashes when I connect it to the internet. Otherwise it runs fine.
What do you mean by crashes? What happens?
(I have an early 2008 MacBook and when I plug in a firewire cable the
power cuts off, so it's pretty
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Ed Grey wrote:
I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card.
Here:
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp
http://www.laurontech.com/pcissd.html
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't mean the fans firmware, I meant the MDD's firmware.
-Jonas
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Yes, I'm sure Bruce knew that
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
Online Netflix is also an idea. It requires an intel mac though.
Erm, its a flash site that shouldn't require anything other then a computer
that can display flash video...
OWC SUCKS ... (their Mercury Elite Pro 500 GB was supposed to be my
wonderful new BOOTABLE backup drive). The damn thing doesn't work on
ANY of my Macs
OWC has a number of different flavors of their Mercury Elite Pro.
Did you get the FireWire 400+ USB 2.0 or the FireWire 800/400 +
USB2 + eSATA
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote:
Dr. Who, Season 3 highly recommended
I'm one of those who is waiting to see David Tennant's last appearance
as the Doctor. Hopefully sometime later today or tomorrow ...
Other than that ... guess I'll go walk some dogs
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Andy andy.the...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget about Wireless Ethernet Bridges. Can be found in the UK for
about 40GBP. You plug it into your Ethernet port and it connects to your
wireless network. It will work with any Mac with an Ethernet connection.
If you
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Robert Long texasche...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hey John, thanks, I am using a repeater with an ethernet opening for my
wireless macbook pro and it works fine. I am thinking of moving it closer
to the BW G3 and connect by ethernet. What do you think??
I'm not
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Bill Connelly
billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter
The Swiss Army Knife of Disk Connectivity...Turns Any Bare Drive
Into An External Storage Solution!!
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, BlackShark Films
an...@blacksharkfilms.com wrote:
Hello all. I re-ran the Tiger disc install at the genius bar at the
Braintree Apple Store. Not only did it work but he found all these
apps that were unnecessary and yes freed up 27gigs of space WAHOO
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
So what I did, is buy one of these Amazon.com: TRENDnet 300 Mbps Dual Band
Wireless N USB Adapter TEW-664UB (Version v1.0R) It's dual band
which means you get 802.11n (2.4ghz) or 802.11n (5ghz) it's the only US2
dongle
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Michael G.M. michaelgm717...@gmail.com wrote:
IDE drives are
getting a little more hard to find but not impossible to find by a
long shot.
I'm confused. Why would you even *want* to seek out an IDE/PATA drive
for use in an external enclosure? When attaching via
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Michael G.M. michaelgm717...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think the SATA drives support SMART do they?
Yes, they do. Or I suppose to be more precise I should say all the
SATA drives which I am familiar with support SMART.
On a more general note, there seems to be
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
But I'm going to keep those five
year warranty papers handy
I've never replaced a drive under warranty so I may have this wrong.
But the impression I got from poking around drive manufacturer web
sites is that they all base the
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Tomtba...@nmia.com wrote:
And since I've decided to replace the other drive too,
as a precaution (they're both 5 years old), I guess I'll do that
twice, once with each drive.
There are always lot of unknowns in trying to predict drive failure.
If the drive has
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Tomtba...@nmia.com wrote:
... OWC has always been
a reliable company, so I just up and ordered up two of these 1-TB ones
from them: http://tinyurl.com/dec2kl. There is a cheaper version of
the same drive offered there ($87 vs. $139, see http://tinyurl.com/
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Vicvma...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't step on that dwarf!
Crush.
Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers.
Which stays in my mind primarily because of that timeless political
soundbite from George Leroy Tirebyter:
... and you can believe me! Because I never
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:49 AM, ah...clemboneheads...@gmail.com wrote:
so call me stoopid if you like ...
You know, I actually think that we're all bozos on this bus ...
-irrational john ;-)
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Mullin9ddavidmul...@inbox.com wrote:
Do anyone make FireWire Enclosure that holds
a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW
I'm not clear on what you are asking. Did you mean an enclosure that
holds both a HDD and a DVD burner simultaneously? If so, no, I've
never heard of
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:42 PM, mkehoemirake...@gmail.com wrote:
Any suggestions on how to create a clone of the original 60G
(Macintosh HD) start-up drive in my G4 MDD dual 867?
If you are using Leopard you can simply use the Disk Utility to
copy/clone your parititon(s). That's what I did
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, you may get different results depending on whether you are using
the 2.4GHz or the 5GHz band. Shouldn't the 5GHz be faster?
My understanding from the little I've read about this over at
www.smallnetbuilder.com is
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Bruce
Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
That may need the $1.99 update you had to buy.
I don't think so. Mostly because as far I know 802.11n support for
this version of the MacBook was baked in when it was released. It was
released at the beginning of
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Bruce
Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Does anyone know if a usb modem would work in the usb port of the
Airport Extreme n?
No it wouldn't. The USB modem is a 'softmodem', like a Winmodem; it
relies on the computer host's CPU to do the work.
In
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Al Poulinalfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
And here is Apple's Setup Guide:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/AirPortExtreme_802.11n_UserGuide.pdf
and Apple's Design pub for the latest model:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Chance Reechercnrtechh...@gmail.com wrote:
You can simply plug your older AirPort into the N AirPort's WAN port,
and set the N AirPort to get it's internet connection through DHCP.
While I am not hands on familiar with either of these AirPort
routers, the
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bill Connellybillycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
The Netgear cg814gcmr has 10/100 Mbit/s hardwire ethernet capability,
but only 54 Mbit/s wireless. Are you using wireless networking? You
could get 100Mbs using hardwired networking off your onboard ethernet
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Liam Provenlpro...@gmail.com wrote:
AMD are really struggling now. The Sledgehammer µarch was stunning and
killed Itanium; it moved the x86 world onto 64-bit, although 99% of
machines still run 32-bit S/W, just like for a decade, 99% of the
32-bit 386 machines
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Len Gerstellgers...@gmail.com wrote:
VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more
robust and format inclusive video players for OS X.
http://www.videolan.org
Thanks. Downloading now.
VideoLan is somewhat amazing to me. Given all the
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Peterpeter1...@gmail.com wrote:
6GB pretty much is the low end for running OSX. Get a bigger HD and
copy the content from the 6GB with CCC to the new HD.
My sentiments exactly!
Although ... before leaping into getting a bigger drive it might be
wise to walk
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Jonas Ulrichjonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. I realize that this has nothing to do with this list, but I was hoping
that someone would know something about building a Hackintosh.
Yes, it has nothing to do with this list. And while I personally don't
mind you
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Ralph Greensfrea...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
As Peter said, the connectors for 2.5 and 3.5 SATA drives are the
same. But, the power draw is almost always a lot more on the 3.5
drives. A single USB port can supply 2.5 watts(.5 amps at 5V).
My understanding when
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:03 PM, MacGuymacgu...@gmail.com wrote:
ok, got this 2.5 sata drive plugged into this 3.5 enclosure...
question: can the power supplied to the 3.5 enclosure be too much for
this 2.5 drive?
I've always gone by the rule that if they have exactly the same
connectors then
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Bruce
Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
No. So long as you can connect them (and both 2.5 and 3.5 drives
require the same voltages) things should work out fine.
I don't know how pertinent to this thread this is, but I'm not
positive they use the same
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:34 PM, MacGuymacgu...@gmail.com wrote:
This icydock enclosure has always
given me grief when it was hooked up via USB... it would unmount
itself after 3 mins or less time plugged/ mounted on the desktop? This
must be a power supply issue then... wonder where to get
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Clark Martincm...@sonic.net wrote:
The standard 3.5 5.25 drive power connector supplies +12V and +5V.
2.5 drives only need 5V so they would just use that power line. There
is no 3.3V line on drive power cables.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Yes, I
As for the one I'm having troubles with:
http://www.icydock.com/product/mb664us-1s.html
It has esata.. and funny that you'd ask, yes it worked great via esata
connection. And lastly, no, it's not under warranty. Jeff
OK, I'm stumped and am now waiting for someone else to post the
obvious
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Arnel Tuazon a.tua...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using the latest Airport Extreme base station.
In that case if you are planning are including other (existing) 802.11b or g
clients in your wireless network you might want to take the trouble to going
with an 802.11n
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Kris Tilfordktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
You're saying I can have 802.11n clients using only the 5GHz band, and
simultaneously use 802.11b/g clients on the 2.4GHz band?
That's my understanding of what it means when the specs for the
AirPort Extreme (Early 2009) say
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ted Treented.tr...@btinternet.com wrote:
A dead PRAM battery stopped my G4/400 booting, and the same thing
happened to a G4/867 at work.
IT (PC boys) diagnosed a dead mobo.
Well, in their defense, they *were* right weren't they? The
motherboard was
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Arnel Tuazona.tua...@gmail.com wrote:
Quick question: Which is better (more stable) an original Airport card
(802.11b) or a PCI wireless card that is 802.11n ?
IMO that's a question that can't really be answered as asked. I don't
believe the stability of a
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Dante Armok dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, GMail's reply function makes top posting, however annoying it
may be to some people, but it is the default action, and I have not
been able to figure out how to make it run otherwise.
I'm in GMail's web
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