> ...I wasn't aware that the NEC chipset was the preferred one.
>
> The ones I briefly looked at yesterday on Amazon UK seemed to be all
> Texas Instruments, which I think is also on my G3's motherboard. I'll
> steer clear of those and try your suggestion.
The preferred USB 3.0 chip set IS NEC
> Best results with various other cards were found with NEC chips as well.
The NEC chipset, now renamed Renesas, is the most compatible of several
competitive chipsets.
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> I've used PCI USB2 cards in the PowerMac without issues; I wasn't sure
> about something more unusual like Firewire.
Standardization is complete, or very nearly so.
PowerMacs can accept and use USB 2.0/1.1, USB 3.0, FW 400 and FW 800 PCI
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> What problems are known to occur when a MDD has a weak PRAM battery? Is
> ist
> absolutely necessary to change it? Thanks for your comments.
The nominal voltage of the PRAM battery is 3.6 volts.
The battery may still be functional when is reaches 3.0 volts, at which
point it is considered
>> But, it is still safer to limit the boot volume to two partitions, the
>> first of which is 128 GB (131,072 MB, actual capacity) with the
>> remainder
>> being used for data storage which is not boot-dependent.
>
> It really is the only *safe* way.
>
>> Thereafter, the other volumes may be
> (Sorry, my first attempt had numerous errors such as typos. I've also
> rewritten parts and added a TO-DO, what I would do).
> THIS IS THE UPDATED VERSION OF THE SAME EMAIL.
> ...
It is my understanding that if the LBA48 property has been introduced to
O.F. "persistently", then a volume which
> So that's it, apparently a corrupt file(s), that OSX apparently verified,
> but it wasn't sound. All that cost me way too much of my life, but now I
> get to reap the glory of solving my problem, and hopefully saving others
> from the same fate.So if this works for you, then that
> Or you could buy the OEM Apple antenna plus a set of the correct Apple had
> drive screws from me, shipped USPS Priority Mail from Eureka CA. How much
> do you want to pay for that?
The WiFi cards usually have one, two or three U.Fl connectors. Two is the
most common for cards used on Apple
> I am aware there is no floppy connector on the motherboard, but I wanted
> to
> know if there is a cheap way to convert to IDE or add a floppy controller
> card via PCI.
Floppy to USB is the best option, if you can find a converter (probably
from a China or HK eBay store).
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>> I have an old Power Mac G4 Digital Audio, and I would like to add on a
>> floppy drive to read floppy disks I may find floating around. So I
>> purchased a floppy drive on eBay, but I realized that it has a normal
>> floppy drive connector. Is there any way I could connect this drive to
>> my
> BTW I saw loads of defective newer MacBooks Air for sale. The RAM of these
> babies is soldered to the motherboard! How stupid is that?
It is a sign of the times.
Chromebooks generally have soldered RAM (either 2 banks of 1 GB = 2 GB
total or 2 banks of 2 GB = 4 GB total), but some VERY OLD
> I needed to hook up an Agfa SCSI Duoscan to scan negatives, and it would
> not be seen by the SCSI card in a G4 Quicksilver, so I dug a beige G3 266
> desktop out of the closet. As I was trying different PCI cards, it started
> to not respond to the power button.
The Beige was the last desktop
> 137,000 MB is the limit for an early QS.
Oops ... the limit is 131,072 MB, computed as follows: 128 megabytes
(where a "megabyte" is really 1024-based, and not 1000-based) = 131,072
MB.
The problem is: the early QSes support only a 24-bit LBA size, whereas
late QSes support a 48-bit LBA. The
> You can use any of the offered sizes, but only the first 120 or so GB will
> be seen by the Quicksilver, (the drive can always later be used in another
> machine at full capacity).
137,000 MB is the limit for an early QS.
Late QSes have this limit removed in hardware.
"-02" IDE chip has the
> As the subject line says, I'm wondering if anyone has installed an SSD in
> their G4? If so, would you please offer recommendations and comments on
> how it performs?
2.5" SATA to PATA converters certainly exist (find them on eBay), but how
would one provide the "trim" function?
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> of
> those SATA to PATA Superdrive bays you can find on ebay for $10.
Care to share the eBay item number, or the eBay link?
The adapters which I found were all for 3.5"/5.25" drives, NOT 2.5" drives.
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>> You can have a look at Yellow Dog Linux:
>> http://www.fixstars.com/en/technologies/linux/what/overview/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Diederick
>
> That's pretty cool, I didn't know YDL was still kicking around.
A version of YDL is still kicking around which will run on an ANS (Apple
Network Server ...
> It would be nice if there was an adapter that went into the mobo IDE
> slot so you could run a SATA cable out to the drive. Routing would be
> much easier that way.
It is theoretiaclly possible to do, but only for one SATA port as the
chipsets presently in use "map" either a Master PATA OR a
I still am using a Power Mac G-4 1.25 dual using OS 10.5.8 on a
daily basis for some work using the internet. I can no longer
upgrade Safari, Firefox or Chrome.
I use TenFourFox (Firefox for G-series Macs) on 10.5.8 on my 1.25 GHz Mini
[ * ] .
There are different versions for different
Thanks, everyone. What is the most effective way to remove flash from the
computer?
Use your browser and point its search key to remove adobe flash.
That should get you to ...
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
... or a similar adobe.com link from
I heard that TenFourFox doesn't come with flash player though. Maybe that
is the case? I would be curious to see speed comparisons with TenFourFox
and a few other browsers still supported on 10.5.8. Do any of these
support HTML I wonder?
TenFourFox comes in at least two versions, one of
The drive comes unformatted so those are great suggestions from both of
you.
Even SSDs come unformated.
During the device role call, unformatted drives are so marked, and one
of the first actions when the system reaches the Desktop is to invoke Disk
Utility and ask you to initialize or ignore
First, your DA G4 doesn't support volumes bigger than 128 GB.
My shop had four G4 DAs, and all supported 128 GB (actual capacity is
131,072).
You may use HD Speedtools, but that is an extension, and is only available
after booting has been successfully completed.
You may use the Open
Thanks to everybody, I think I'm going to get an intel Mac ...
A very wise choice.
Flexibility and reliability of MacOS X improved dramatically after the
switch to an Intel platform.
10.4.8 was the more-or-less first instance which supported Intel. Alas,
the underlying Intel hardware was
Does the PATA/SATA adapter have a jumper to set Master/Slave? You could
be having Master/Slave issues.
The SATA to PATA (IDE) converter I have does, indeed, have a Master/Slave
jumper, but, alas, no position which is explicitly Cable Select.
The drives in BW G3 and later machines support
I'm not following this thread closely, so perhaps this isn't right,
but some of the early G4's lacked LBA48 support for larger HDs in
firmware. There was a patch to enable LBA48 support for bigger drives, but
I think this was for models prior to the DA?
I've only just caught up with this threadI never realized that you
could use off-the-shelf USB2 PCI cards with PPC Macs.
A PCI solution which is often overlooked is this:
1) a PCI to Mini-PCI adapter which has one or more SMC connectors (for
antennae), only one is actually needed, and two
Can the G4 address that much space?
Remember, the SCSI drives only have one parameter block for specifying the
LBA (but there are several parameter block formats).
Small/large IDE drives are accessed in this way:
1) Small drives have one parameter block, whereas
2) large drives use the same
I understand that the lenses on the original Pioneer 103 DVR drives
must
be
immaculate in order for them to work properly.
By the time of the Pioneer 113, the drives had gotten quite good.
But, they were still priced at about $100, whereas the price of SATA
burners had depressed to nearly
Cheap solution is buy a USB 2.0 PCI card and use the USB WIFI adapter
you’ve been trying to use.
Most so-called USB 2.0 WiFi dongles will indeed work on USB 1.1.
Check the support list, though, as not all of these will support PPC Macs
(but some will).
Alternative is buying a PCI WIFI
Did you recheck the connection of the Airport Extreme card inside your G5?
The kexts for Airport (or competitive 802.11 networking) support all
reside as plug-ins in:
/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
In 10.9, these plug-ins are:
AirPortAtheros40 (handles the Atheros-based
The drives should work just fine, although they'll be limited to the
throughput of the ATA adapter on the motherboard, which, iirc is ATA-100
not 133, which is what the UDMA spec is talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDMA
The interface was carefully designed so that any drive which
Dear Customer,
The box for this card was designed for a series of controller cards.
Some of which did support Mas OS 10.5+.
Unfortunately this is one of the cards of the series that does not
support Mac OS.
As I pointed out on H Q-A (where this question was originally posted), the
Silicon
It's a consequence of the bottom falling out of HDD prices, and the
staggeringly high rate of HDD size increase, I expect.
AND, dropping the size (thickness) from 12.5mm (although a few of those
are still around) to 9.5mm, or less.
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When I purchase a new drive I look for those designated enterprise
grade. They're the ones with 5 year warranties.
Used to be everything had a 5 year warranty.
Then the consumer/prosumer drives drives were reduced to 3 years.
Now the consumer/prosumer drives are reduced to 2 years.
The
I've used the NuPower batteries OWC sells in my systems and recommended
them for others...only one dud in the lot (which was promptly replaced by
OWC.)
I have also selected OWC's batteries, and have never been disappointed.
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I have tried the Seagate
drive with the jumpers set to either the single drive setting, or the
cable select setting. I have not tried the Quantum drive with an
alternative jumper setting.
Apple began using Cable Select cables with the BW G3, after it had
licensed hp/Compaq's patent on
Newer systems are always being updated to handle improved drive
technologies, so it is quite possible that 9.2 would see something that
8.6
didn't.
The size of the drives is also important, as every OS version and machine
have their own limits. Is the Seagate larger than the Quantum?
Is
I had to replace the hard drive on my wife's Quicksilver 733, OSX Tiger
yesterday. There were two drives in it and the boot drive went down. I
replaced it with a new WD and removed the secondary while I had it open,
however I put the jumper on the new one like the old primary, having
I'd get a cheap FireWire PCI card and put that in. Any OHCI PCI card
should do. They're not very expensive.
Correct ... any OHCI-compatible PCI card will provide basic Firewire, at
your choice of 400 or 800, and sometimes with several connector types,
even internal ones.
Even the very
250 GB - 500 GB
40 GB - 250 GB
That works.
Alas, there exists a self-imposed 2.2 TB (2,200 GB) barrier, in SOME
cases. This ... usually ... turns out to be a BIOS
incompatibility/limitation.
Presently, I always use 1 TB drive for my OS drives, generally configured
as 1/3 primary OS, 1/3
The newest OS supported on PowerMacs is 10.5.8 and that would
probably be the recommended one. But 10.4.11 is good too and runs slightly
faster. It must be my stupid day, but someone posted that 10.6 runs on
PPC, which I can't understand either.
My MacMini server is really a 1.25 GHz G4 with
Does anyone have a source/recommendation for a wireless laser mouse
that will work on my G4 MDD running OS 10.5.8, OS 10.4.11, and Classic?
I like the Gear Head MP2325BLK.
BLK is black, but these also come in colors.
The Bluetooth dongle is included with the product, and these are available
It's only the 4TB flavor which is 5900 RPM. The 3TB and lower speeds
are, I believe, all 7200 RPM. At any rate, that's what newegg claims
in the chart they have on their product page for these drives.
I stand corrected, sort of.
It is indeed the 4 TB which is Desktop.
The others, at least
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.
Noboby makes flawless drives,
Hitachi and Seagate are my choice in the 7200 64MB. Never had a Hitachi go
yet, but I'm sure someday one will.
Newegg most times has the best price, look for the weekly sales:-)
Seagate has, unfortunately, elected to abandon the justifiably famous
Barracuda trademark for its drives.
Is an Airport base station necessary for the Airport card to be
detected? I do not yet have one.
Airport is simply Apple's registered trademark for its implementation of
the internationally standardized 802.11.
There are at least four variations: 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n.
I put my G5 tower in storage for 7 months while I was away. I'm back now
and when I attempted to power on the machine, it is dead as a doorstop. No
power LED, no fan spinning - absolutely dead. I tried different power
cables, confirmed wall power receptacle is good, still no go. BTW the
This is Apple's guide:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/PMG5_Battery_DIY.pdf which shows
what looks like a CR3032-type button cell, but iFixit has photos of a
motherboard showing a half-aa Lithium 3.6V cell
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+Power+Mac+G5+Backup+Battery/1951/1
Most
what i did was de-solder the faulty regulator and attached 3 wires to the
3
contacts on the board the old regulator was soldered to. then i soldered
the new voltage regulator to the proper one of the 3 new wires, wrapped
the
contacts with electrical tape, and taped it to a spot in the
The specified DNS can be changed (which is another subject) however the
DNS
is by default set by your internet provider.
The default DNS can be reset by reseting your internet box.
A lot of folks ELECT to use a secondary DNS as their primary DNS as that
secondary DNS offers improved
Beige G3's are REALLY finicky.
When the IDE system gets totally fouled-up, and won't respond in any
reasonable way, the only solution is to do a Cmd-Opt-P-R (reset the PRAM
contents).
However ...
This keyboard sequence most often DOES NOT WORK the FIRST time. And often
not the SECOND, either.
My 300MHz Beige G3 minitower -- which I passed on to a new home last
November -- had a Sonnet Encore/ZIF G4/500MHz Processor Upgrade. IIRC, the
upgrade was was easy, and it certainly made for a great OS 9 experience.
500 and 533 MHz were offered by various companies.
The Beige is somewhat
I have a G5 Dual Core (2.0) (Late 2005, M9590LL/A, PowerMac 11,2) that has
eight memory slots. EveryMac says that this G-5 is maxed out at 16 GB of
memory. Mine has 8 GB right now (1 GB chip in each slot).
Does that mean that if you put more than 16 GB in the memory slots, it
will
only
You're reading this WRONG, there's no such thing as 4 GB modules, this
is for TWO 2 GB modules, a MATCHED PAIR (2 x 2GB = 4GB).
Indeed so.
Manufacturers now specify the TOTAL amount of RAM contained in a RETAIL
package.
Example: a two stick package may be stated to be 4 GB, and the RAM will
My 2002 Quicksilver is starting to make some noise associated with the CPU
cooling fan (as far as I can isolate it).
Can anyone share experiences re: replacing this fan?
Is it fairly easy to remove, replace and/or repair (i.e., lube?)
It is a generic fan.
You will have to obtain a
If you decide to
replace the fan be sure and save the power plug, my new fan came without
a plug.
Fans from electronics parts stores come with tinned (i.e., ready to
solder) leads, never with connectors.
If a connector is found, the fan was most likely surplus.
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I have a G4 Sawtooth and a G4 Powerbook both running OS X 10.4.11. I have
a
naked DSL line and my ISP is Verizon. Recently I received a Actiontec
GT784 modem/router. I wish to use wired Ethernet on the Sawtooth and
Wireless on the Powerbook. The physical connection is very
straightforward,
TMI-Sometimes booting 2nd HDs can be problematic on Beige, there is
one ROM version (A) that doesn't support any slave drive booting,
although XPF can boot slave drives on normally early Beige with ROM A
by using a bootable master HD as an XPF Helper Drive. Later ROM B C
can boot both
Questions:
1. Can I do this from Disk Utility or do I need other software to proceed?
2. What are the steps I need to follow to proceed?
Should you want to prepare the machine for a new user, so s/he has to go
through the process of adding a user and password, the following process
may be
Just grasping at straws, before I buy a $50 cpu replacement to try.
I simply updated to a dual 1.42 GHz MDD, $86 delivered from LEM seller
RMARTIN.
It has performed flawlessly.
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USB1.1 doesn’t seem suitable, and I haven’t heard of a FW400 WiFi solution
yet.
Really, the PCMCIA slot seems to be the only way to add WiFi.
The card with a stick-on label VER.2000 is definitely OS X-compatible.
I believe there may be one other F5D7010 version which is OS X-compatible.
The card with a stick-on label VER.2000 is definitely OS X-compatible.
I believe there may be one other F5D7010 version which is OS
X-compatible.
All the others are not.
Do you know if it supports WPA2 and AES/PSK?
My recollection is it was too early for the WPA2 specification.
I no
That wouldn't make the L3 cache appear / disappear from the Hardware
list, would it?
No, it would not.
But, the L3 cache chips were somewhat notorious for failing for no
apparent reason.
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I’ve found this:
http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md09/mac-wifi-pc-card.htm
The Belkin F5D7011 (801.11g) using the Broadcom chip looks like a suitable
candidate to me, but it is not clarified yet whether it will support WPA2.
Also, I’ve heard that Belkin (like any other manufactorer) might
A much better alternative, for my money, are the various USB 2.0 cards.
The grand-daddy of them all is the ZyDas 1211b ...
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070523154246381
... which has drivers available for G-series and I-series versions of OS
X. It has an internal antenna.
Just remember that the fastest G4 which was produced by IBM and/or Moto
(Freescale) was 1.42 GHz, and the so-called 1.5 GHz (to accommodate the
100 MHz bus case), and 1.6 GHz, ..., 2.0 GHz G4s are really 1.42 GHz chips
which have been purchased in bulk and then die sorted by the
manufacturer,
Today, you can get a super-multi Lite-on for about $20.
I use these in certain Hacks which, for reasons of ports, must use IDE
hard and optical drives.
Available from MANY Hong Kong or Chinese eBay sellers are SATA-to-IDE
converters, which will allow a current generation SATA drive (of
Why bother with buying from China?
Because they are fresh stock with the latest firmware, and they cost only
a couple of bucks, delivered to any U.S. address.
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Also Apple is one of the few companies to have produced version on both
sides of the Great Schism; between System V and BSD. OS X is based on
the BSD line (why the Califoria Board Of Regents copyrights are there)
Apple discloses this lineage in OS X pretty plainly.
List the extensions and
Apple itself also uses a lot of OSS in the depth of Mac OS X. Just the
GUI, “Aqua”, and the applications are closed source by Apple.
Even the browser uses OSS: WebKit.
Indeed so, including much of the OS X kernel, which predates the founding
of Apple Inc (formerly Apple Computer Inc) by
Apple doesn't use the BSD kernel, Apple uses the Mach kernel, both for
OS X and for the iPhone OS.
Perhaps true, but Apple Inc acknowledges The Regents of The University of
California's copyrights, within the kernel itself, and possibly other
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A tip of the hat to the Mac OS 9 Lives website for getting to the bottom
of a mystery.
A number of G4 motherboards, other than those mentioned, are internally
capable of LBA48 operation, and persistently, too.
The LBA48 Property (which see, just Google it) may be persistently added
just about
my mac mini has no wireless device installed. I need an external device.
Can anyone recommend one?
I use a Rosewill (NewEgg's captive brand) RNX-N150UBE.
It comes with a detachable antenna and drivers are available for most
OSes, certainly including OS X (MacOS X's new name).
Works on true
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t buy *a* *thing* that is sold without a
media
or printed envelope and I dislike anything without a printed manual.
Same here.
I’m still buying Audio CDs. I do use iTunes on the Cube and I even have an
iTunes account, but since I only use ripped tracks (from
Personally, like most folks, probably, my collection is a mixture of
physical and digitally sourced software and media. Yes Apple could decide
that I don't deserve my music and try to prevent me from playing it, but
only in iTunes and since it's a format that can be played in other players
I'd wager that probably half or more of all the audio CD's
available in used record shops live on as audio files on the
previous owner's computer (or computers, depending on how many
times they've changed hands).
Sure, and the usual suspect resellers of these used CDs and DVDs get
it coming
That depends on the current legal practice in your country, I guess.
I come from Austria: in a lot of European countries it is the law that you
are
allowed to resell software that you purchased, whatever an EULA may tell
you.
Printed books are possibly a good model for software (which
Funny thing is, anywhere in the UK there are charity shops where you
find
anything donated and for sale, books included.
How this situation comply with the law mentioned above?
Is perhaps that law obsolete?
Laws have changed with many of the changes being self-serving, such as the
At my wit's end, I figured I would have to swap out video cards from my
other G4 (466 DA) to narrow it down. Before trying that, I popped the
heatsink off to inspect the processors. They were caked in dust just as
the rest of the unit had been, and their thermal pads and grease were
burned
AFAIK, ECC memory won't work in your G3 (I think this is true for most
PowerMacs).
G3 Beige is PC66.
G3 BW and gigabit E-nets are PC100.
DA and QS are PC133.
All require unbuffered, non-ECC, low density RAM.
Parity, if present, will be ignored.
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I know that you replaced your fan, Peter, has anyone replaced the full
PSU? If so, how difficult is it?
No, not difficult.
The three Allen screws on the outside are metric, not Imperial.
The threads are M3.5-0.6, too, so DO NOT make a mistake and assume they
are the much more common #6-32.
Thanks again for the responses .. I assume the PSU fan is 80 x 80 x 25
mm,
at least 32 cfm? Any restrictions on current draw at 12 v?
Nope. The fan is supplied off of the +12 volt bus, which is common to all
+12 volt devices, such as HD, and, indeed, CPUs in Intel Macs.
I have ... in an
You're looking at a card which plugs into a PCI slot and provides ATA/
IDE interfaces for drives. Those, the 6280M and the 6880M are
sometimes available on Ebay for about $30 - $50. The 6880M is like
the 6280M, except that it supports RAID 0 and RAID 1.
The 6280M (any variation) is a
I checked Acards' website yesterday for these very cards. They wanted
$89 for an PCI-ATA adapter.
That is not significantly different from their price nearly 15 years ago.
Over the years, one could get a 68-pin UW-SCSI adapter card (fits on the
back of an ATA drive, any size and capacity,
So, if i buy this mini USB adapter, I just plug it into any USB port
on my G5 and I get wireless? It is the whole wireless card itself---
not merely an adapter to plug some other wireless card into? Is it
seen as Airport Extreme?
Most USB adapters come with Universal drivers (both PPC and
A few years ago there's were scores of them on Ebay for $30 - $40.
Now it is difficult to find one for under $150. It's just two chips
and a few connectors on a tiny circuit board. I don't know why it's
so darned expensive.
The law of electronics supply and demand: things that are out of
Not one that'll plug into the airport slot of a Pismo they can't...which
was my point. Those are Airport Extreme-compatible devices.
I use a Aria extreme Wireless CardBus Card it plugs right in and uses the
AirPort software. Way faster than the Apple Original AirPort b speed
cards.
Correct
Making further inspection -- the SCSI ribbon connected to a FM socket
inside the computer is from an added card (which by the way is not as long
as the socket it is in) that has the following information on it:
ULTRA2 SCSI LVD/SE
KV9149TTGDCD
AHA-2940U2B/
MAC APPLE
1795500
9914
This
I see a second ribbon connected to the MB that goes to the CD. This
socket on the second ribbon looks like a 'NORMAL ATA, maybe this is a
more advanced form of SCSI or could it be ATA.
The connectors on the motherboard are ATA; the connectors on the add-in
card are two varieties of SCSI.
If the budget allows, the ACARD adapter might be a better choice. Once
I clocked a 78mb SCSI drive vs an 80gb ide on an ACARD adapter to see
how much faster the SCSI drive was. It wasn't, the 80gb on the adapter
beat the SCSI drive by a good margin.
The ACARD product is available in several
I have to say it has been awhile since I have installed linux on that
vintage of a PPC, and I can tell you it is ALOT of work.
First things first: You need to get a copy of BootX:
http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/
This is the boot loader used for OldWorld macs that
The macintel list seems to be the one intel-based LEM list with decent
traffic.
Pretty soon non-Ivy Bridge Intel Macs (and the Hack clones of pre-Ivy
Bridge) will go the way of the others, too.
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As a physicist working for the US Navy at a time well before the IBM
peecee appeared, let alone Windows, we wanted to use the computers on
Minuteman missiles that were being decommissioned. The idea was that
everyone in the laboratory could have a machine on his desk as opposed to
using a
If you have an Intel Mac, and if you actually were brave enough to put a
Blu-
Ray drive in it, you might be interested in this software afterall.
BTW, the german computer magazine article concludes that the Mac player
software was (one year ago, previous version) very limited in features
Actually if someone says they're running 10.4 or 10.5, it doesn't mean
that OS is necessarily running on a PPC Mac. The first Intel machines
came with 10.4. I know a number of people still using 10.4 or 10.5 on
Intel machines for a variety of reasons. You could purchase10.5 to run
on a PPC
Got to be something drawing a particular group with Macs more than 6
years old. I know several hundred Mac users and of those that are
online, about 1% are doing it with a PPC.
There are Mac-based server systems which are still using Apple Network
Servers, and those went out of production in
And IBM's Mainframes are now capable of a lot more than they used to be,
so they've actually built on the technology. I have 2 full System Z frames
here, one at each site..beasts.
Well, yes, and CMOS was the key.
The last IBM mainframe which was bipolar could not even do 1000 MIPS (it
This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple.
Mac OS X Version Distribution
OSX %USE NOTE
10.4 03.8 PPC --- 10.4.8 was first practical OS for Hackintoshes
10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s
10.6 47.4 INTEL ONLY --- Some Hacks are still 10.6.x
10.7
Besides which, I have had my best results using a hacked version of Drive
Setup, in which I use ResEdit to change one of the Seagate drives to
support whatever new-to-me drive I encounter.
That's the way I always did it. Just hack your drive setup entry with
ResEdit to make it see all drives.
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