Re: MDD problem

2011-02-12 Thread yawg
please test if you can your PSU before you got another one... On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:17 PM, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for your comments and help. When I pressed the CUDA for a couple of times, about 10 to 20 seconds, there was no battery installed. I did

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread yawg
Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:40 PM, yawg wrote: But this time I didn't even get the restart screen again but only a bong and then nothing, both my monitors stayed dark. The fact that you got a bong or chime

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-10 Thread yawg
? This is the first Mac I cannot get to run again after a crash, it's very frustrating. Regards, Jörg. On 3 feb, 23:47, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:40 PM, yawg wrote: But this time I didn't even get the restart

Re: Powermac G4 mdd dual Strange noise???

2011-02-09 Thread yawg
Hi, As for you, Miguel, I really hope that this has nothing to do with the PSU. I would rather see a hard drive fail than a PSU fail, because I really like this PowerMac and I think that this one is the last powerpc mac that I bought. Therefore, it should last long. I also have problems with

MDD problem

2011-02-03 Thread yawg
Hi, Yesterday I came back home after 3 months abroad and started up my MDD, it booted fine and I did some work and then played music from the harddisk. Suddenly the music playback got stuck and the Mac froze. I switched it off holding down the power button. When I started it again I got the

Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain

2011-01-05 Thread yawg
If all else fails just start Toast and choose the optical drive to open or close. Or at system startup keep the mouse button down and all drives will open IIRC. Regards, Jörg. On 5 jan, 23:12, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: Same with me and

Re: MacPorts and Facebook

2010-12-13 Thread yawg
Hi, Apparently some phishy things are going on on Facebook now. This is a screenshot of my son's FB and normally he is my guy in the know, sitting in front of his PeeCee almost 24/7 ... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=478584562551set=a.44263812551.52532.610327551 Cheers, Jörg. On 13

Re: M-Audio

2010-11-30 Thread yawg
Hi there, All I can say is that I hope they continue down that path. For now I'll be watching from the sidelines. Same here. The drivers for my Rev. 7.1 only worked - somehow - under Panther as did my webcam as did my Adobe classic apps etc. etc. That's why I stay in Panther except for

MDD won't start after cloning

2010-10-17 Thread yawg
Hi, I have a problem that doesn't go away. I made a startup disk with Disk Utility, a clone because DU just copied the blocks, but that disk won't boot my Mac. I get the login screen even though I am admin and never see that screen normally. The same if I start up in Tiger or Panther. When I

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-13 Thread yawg
. From: yawg yaw...@gmail.com To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, October 12, 2010 8:36:06 AM Subject: Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS Hello, Just a little quirk I encountered in Toast. I have versions 6 in Panther and 8 in Tiger. Because Toast 8 would often

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-13 Thread yawg
ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Oct 13, 2010, at 3:28 AM, yawg wrote: But in Panther I can still use all my old apps in Classic which is not possible in Tiger. I don't understand this, Classic is fully supported in Tiger? Perhaps you're one cat off and mean in Tiger you can still use all your

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-13 Thread yawg
ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Oct 13, 2010, at 3:28 AM, yawg wrote: But in Panther I can still use all my old apps in Classic which is not possible in Tiger. I don't understand this, Classic is fully supported in Tiger? Perhaps you're one cat off and mean in Tiger you can still use all your

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-12 Thread yawg
Hello, Just a little quirk I encountered in Toast. I have versions 6 in Panther and 8 in Tiger. Because Toast 8 would often hiccup in play mode, I zipped it and returned to the trusty 6 which plays just fine in Tiger. When I tried to unzip my version 8 again for burning DVDs my Tiger told me

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-12 Thread yawg
Hello, Just a little quirk I encountered in Toast. I have versions 6 in Panther and 8 in Tiger. Because Toast 8 would often hiccup in play mode, I zipped it and returned to the trusty 6 which plays just fine in Tiger. When I tried to unzip my version 8 again for burning DVDs my Tiger told me

PC app to play my Toast music?

2010-09-15 Thread yawg
Hi, I have a Samsung NC10 netbook which I will take on my trip to Thailand. I also have 400GB of Toast AIF music on my MDD which I want to take with me on a portable USB Icebox HD with Firewire and USB interface. With what (freeware-) app can I play my Toast CDs on the netbook with the original

SCSI PCI-controller for MDD

2010-09-13 Thread yawg
Hi, I have problems with my SCSI-controller card, it is an Adaptec 2906. My SCSI-Probe in OS9 sees my Microtek Scanmaker III but when I try to use it I get all kinds of errors. Although I used the scanner before with Microtec ScanWizard now Photoshop versions 4 and 6 tell me I have an old driver

Re: MDD lost his bong after DVD-writer exchange

2010-09-07 Thread yawg
Hello Kris, Zap the PRAM and see if it comes back? Of course ... Must have been at least 15 years that I did that for the last time. Thanks! Regards, Jörg. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Re: MDD lost his bong after DVD-writer exchange

2010-09-07 Thread yawg
Hello Kris, Zap the PRAM and see if it comes back? Of course ... Must have been at least 15 years that I did that for the last time. Thanks! Regards, Jörg. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

MDD lost his bong after DVD-writer exchange

2010-09-06 Thread yawg
Hi all, I just pulled the original BenQ CD-Writer in my MDD because of a tray problem and replaced it with the trusty Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-108 from my beige MT. Now there is no more bong at startup. I liked the bong because it is the same as that of my good ole Quadra 840av ... It doesn't matter

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread yawg
Hi, Any FW enclosure with Oxford chip set and HDD PATA will do the trick with CCC. The Oxford chip enclosures will boot the Mac's with out fail 99.9% of the time. I'm partial to the Seagate 500 GB drives in an OWC enclosure. but that's just me:-) I would go for an external case with

Re: Oxford 924 Bridge Board Drive Size limitation

2010-06-08 Thread yawg
Hi John, I just want to add that not all external Firewire HDs are bootable. I have two Firewire/USB cases with Initio chipsets and those won't boot. It doesn't matter if I use the USB or the FW connection. Regards, Jörg. Yeah I run into one sometimes that has a problem booting, Have

Re: Oxford 924 Bridge Board Drive Size limitation

2010-06-08 Thread yawg
Hi John, I just want to add that not all external Firewire HDs are bootable. I have two Firewire/USB cases with Initio chipsets and those won't boot. It doesn't matter if I use the USB or the FW connection. Regards, Jörg. Yeah I run into one sometimes that has a problem booting, Have

Re: Oxford 924 Bridge Board Drive Size limitation

2010-06-08 Thread yawg
Hi John, I just want to add that not all external Firewire HDs are bootable. I have two Firewire/USB cases with Initio chipsets and those won't boot. It doesn't matter if I use the USB or the FW connection. Regards, Jörg. Yeah I run into one sometimes that has a problem booting, Have

Re: Oxford 924 Bridge Board Drive Size limitation

2010-06-07 Thread yawg
Hi, I just want to add that not all external Firewire HDs are bootable. I have two Firewire/USB cases with Initio chipsets and those won't boot. It doesn't matter if I use the USB or the FW connection. Regards, Jörg. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: Oxford 924 Bridge Board Drive Size limitation

2010-06-06 Thread yawg
Hi, This is a tad OT but somehow my question might fit in. I just grabbed from OWC's Garage sale a Mercury Elite Pro AL Firewire 800/400/USB 2.0 dual drive enclosure. It has the Oxford 924 chipset. The specs say it supports drives up to 1TB. This just means the chip set has no practical

Re: installing older software

2010-02-16 Thread yawg
Yes, and still see old hardware too, like my old SCSI-chain with my trusty Microtek scanner ... I never got that Adaptec PCI SCSI-card to work under OSX although I installed the driver following the instructions. But in OS9 it still works like a charm. I have the latest G4 MDD which Apple brought

Re: Apple USB Extended Keyboard Extension

2009-11-30 Thread yawg
Hi Mike, I mean the PCI USB cards can cause problems like booting with the keyboard plugged into them and the system may not be able to use sleep mode. No, I already had a feeling like you said so my Apple stuff like kb and mouse are always in the on-board USB-ports. I recently had big

Re: Apple USB Extended Keyboard Extension

2009-11-30 Thread yawg
Hi Mike, I mean the PCI USB cards can cause problems like booting with the keyboard plugged into them and the system may not be able to use sleep mode. No, I already had a feeling like you said so my Apple stuff like kb and mouse are always in the on-board USB-ports. I recently had big

No more printing from Classic

2009-11-05 Thread yawg
Hi, Lately I can't print directly from Classic apps any more. Either I get a system error -5751 (for example XPress Passport 5.0.1 ) or the app says that printing wasn't possible because of an unknown error (Acrobat 4.0.5a). I can't find anything on the Apple site about that particular system

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-27 Thread yawg
Sorry people, I don't know how my last post tripled itself. I answered not from my mail account but from inside Google Groups, the same way I posted my other comments. I hope this post stays single ;-) Regards, Jörg. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-26 Thread yawg
Hi Andreas, With the adapters/converters, to connect a SATA drive to a IDE/ATA (PATA) controller, booting from it is not the question. It will work, because the SATA drive is seen as a regular IDE/ATA drive by the hardware. With a SATA PCI card, that provides the system with a number of

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-26 Thread yawg
Hi Andreas, With the adapters/converters, to connect a SATA drive to a IDE/ATA (PATA) controller, booting from it is not the question. It will work, because the SATA drive is seen as a regular IDE/ATA drive by the hardware. With a SATA PCI card, that provides the system with a number of

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-26 Thread yawg
Hi Andreas, With the adapters/converters, to connect a SATA drive to a IDE/ATA (PATA) controller, booting from it is not the question. It will work, because the SATA drive is seen as a regular IDE/ATA drive by the hardware. With a SATA PCI card, that provides the system with a number of

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-24 Thread yawg
Hi Michael, I don't think I trust the Acard adapter. I've not read many encouraging reviews of it. If I don't get the Firm Tek, I'll get the adapters. Are the adapters as reliable as a SATA PCI card? I think I'd rather get the PCI card over the adapters if I can use larger drives. Get the

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-24 Thread yawg
Hi Mike, I forgot: the adapter is called OEM IDE2SATA Ultra-ATA to Serial-ATA adapter. You can see the picture here: http://www.nowthatsit.nl/?categorie_id=629 It's the cheapest of the four, the lower on the right. Jörg. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-24 Thread yawg
Hi Mike, I forgot: the adapter is called OEM IDE2SATA Ultra-ATA to Serial-ATA adapter. You can see the picture here: http://www.nowthatsit.nl/?categorie_id=629 It's the cheapest of the four, the lower on the right. Jörg. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-24 Thread yawg
Hi, I can boot from my big SATA drives with the adapters perfectly. Regards, Jörg. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs.

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-23 Thread yawg
Hi, How long do you guys think PPC Mac users with IDE/ATA hard drives have as far as being totally obsolete and finding SATA PCI cards will be nigh impossible. Jump over the the LEM Swap List quickly, there's a nice SATA PCI card for only $45!!! You should just get an adapter, I use

Re: IDE/ATA Hard drives

2009-10-23 Thread yawg
Hi, How long do you guys think PPC Mac users with IDE/ATA hard drives have as far as being totally obsolete and finding SATA PCI cards will be nigh impossible. Jump over the the LEM Swap List quickly, there's a nice SATA PCI card for only $45!!! You should just get an adapter, I use

Re: PCI SCSI-controller and OSX

2009-10-15 Thread yawg
Hi, On Oct 14, 9:18 pm, Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com wrote: Some Adaptec cards ( you don't tell us which one you have ) are supported up to Panther -10.3 and Tiger - 10.4. I have a Sawtooth using 10.4 which has a 2906 that is connected to a Umax scanner and it works fine. Other

PCI SCSI-controller and OSX

2009-10-14 Thread yawg
Hi, I finally managed to boot my MDD into OS9 again and am now able to use my old SCSI-chain, MO-drive, good ole Plextor CD-writer and my still excellent Microtek-scanner. The thing is I'd like to use my scanner also under OSX, I'm running Panther and Tiger. When I open System Info I get nada

Re: How to block ads in Safari 3.2.1 in Leopard?

2009-03-28 Thread yawg
Hi Peter, Forget Safari and use Camino. Flash and Ad blockers are integrated, it has a small footprint (26.6 MB) and as fast as it gets with browsers. It uses the same engine as Safari and the latest version works even with Panther. I love it. Regards, Jörg.

Re: How to block ads in Safari 3.2.1 in Leopard?

2009-03-28 Thread yawg
Hi Tom, Jorg, I've tried other browsers besides Safari, most recently Firefox which I used for 18 months, and there's always something about them that doesn't measure up, and I always end up going back to Safari sooner or later. So, I've decided to stick with Safari now and just try to

Re: Latest on SATA PCI for a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz

2009-03-07 Thread yawg
Hi, I was looking for a bootable SATA PCI controller but couldn't fine one, also most of them are not bootable anyway. But there is a good solution out there, a simple small SATA to PATA adapter that cost me just 9 euros. It fits on the SATA hard disk and presto! It's just like a big fast ATA

Re: Disk Utility and 1TB hard disks

2009-03-04 Thread yawg
Hi, Disk Utility finished checking my big disk from my Panther partition. I don't know how long it took - I left my computer on all night - but it finished all right and found no problems. Thank you. Regards, Jörg. On Mar 4, 7:17 am, Aaron aa...@macuser.fastmail.fm wrote: At 19:57 -0800

How can I point iTunes to a new disk?

2009-03-02 Thread yawg
Hi, My disk space got claustrophobic so I installed a new 1 TB disk, copied all the files from the old small one to the new one and removed the old one. Now every time I want to play a playlist in iTunes I have to tell iTunes where to find every single tune. Duh ... Is there a possibility to

Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?

2009-03-02 Thread yawg
. I followed your instructions and iTunes reworked the whole shebang but I'm still stuck and have to point iTunes to every new track location. What a PITA ... Regards, Jörg. On Mar 3, 1:12 am, glen glenst...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: yawg yaw...@gmail.com My disk

Re: New DVD RW running slow on PowerMac G4 Dual 450

2009-02-15 Thread yawg
Hi Ken, I installed the Pioneer DVR-116D lately, it's a cheap fast drive. Yes you need Patchburn if you want to burn from the Finder. But if you use Toast for burning you'll have all the speeds available w/o Patchburn. There is also a speedburn patch on the net so you will be able to access

Re: Which SATA PCI adapter will work in a MDD?

2009-02-06 Thread yawg
Hi Peter, The Initio-based adapters work well in G4 Macs. Less well in Intel Macs. Both the LaCie and OWC adapters are (were) Initio-based. The OWC adapter has switchable internal/external, and the external connector is indeed eSATA, just as the internal connector is indeed iSATA. Today

Re: Which SATA PCI adapter will work in a MDD?

2009-02-05 Thread yawg
. On Jan 30, 2:42 pm, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have loads of ripped DVDs and a big music archive and the four disks in my MDD are almost full. Today I saw that a 1TB SATA disk costs the same amount as a 500GB ATA disk so I decided to buy a big SATA disk and an ICIDU PCI adapter

Re: Which SATA PCI adapter will work in a MDD?

2009-02-05 Thread yawg
. On Jan 30, 2:42 pm, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have loads of ripped DVDs and a big music archive and the four disks in my MDD are almost full. Today I saw that a 1TB SATA disk costs the same amount as a 500GB ATA disk so I decided to buy a big SATA disk and an ICIDU PCI adapter

Re: Problem with M-Audio Revolution 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread yawg
Hi Eric, The M-Audio drivers are buggy as hell. And the M-Audio support for Macs is non-existent. The Rev. 7.1 card sounds very good anyway IMO. You just have to fiddle about with the different M-Audio driver versions. Open up the Apple System Prefs and the M-Audio Revolution 7.1app at the same

Re: Problem with M-Audio Revolution 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread yawg
Hi Eric, The M-Audio drivers are buggy as hell. And the M-Audio support for Macs is non-existent. The Rev. 7.1 card sounds very good anyway IMO. You just have to fiddle about with the different M-Audio driver versions. Open up the Apple System Prefs and the M-Audio Revolution 7.1app at the same

Re: Problem with M-Audio Revolution 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread yawg
version of OSX you are using. Fiddle about, fiddle about ... (remember The Who?) Sorry for the double posts, but who the f ... gives a s ... anyway? Cheers, Yawg. On Feb 5, 10:20 pm, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, The M-Audio drivers are buggy as hell. And the M-Audio support for Macs is non

Re: Problem with M-Audio Revolution 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread yawg
version of OSX you are using. Fiddle about, fiddle about ... (remember The Who?) Sorry for the double posts, but who the f ... gives a s ... anyway? Cheers, Yawg. On Feb 5, 10:20 pm, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, The M-Audio drivers are buggy as hell. And the M-Audio support for Macs is non

Re: Problem with M-Audio Revolution 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread yawg
version of OSX you are using. Fiddle about, fiddle about ... (remember The Who?) Sorry for the double posts, but who the f ... gives a s ... anyway? Cheers, Yawg. On Feb 5, 10:20 pm, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, The M-Audio drivers are buggy as hell. And the M-Audio support for Macs is non

Pioneer DVR-116D Firmware flashing problem

2009-01-30 Thread yawg
Hi, After my BenQ DVD-writer wouldn't write to 16-speed DVD-Rs anymore I bought a Pioneer DVR-116D as it is seen by Macs as a native drive. I tried flashing its firmware today on the PC of a friend, the FW on the drive was 1.04 and the latest Pioneer FW was 1.09. But the flashing wouldn't work,

Which SATA PCI adapter will work in a MDD?

2009-01-30 Thread yawg
Hi, I have loads of ripped DVDs and a big music archive and the four disks in my MDD are almost full. Today I saw that a 1TB SATA disk costs the same amount as a 500GB ATA disk so I decided to buy a big SATA disk and an ICIDU PCI adapter eSATA which has two internal ports and two external eSATA

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread yawg
Hi, I have three external Firewire drives, one with an Oxford-controller that always boots fine, there is a Tiger clone on that disk now. My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I always use CCC for

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread yawg
Hi, I have three external Firewire drives, one with an Oxford-controller that always boots fine, there is a Tiger clone on that disk now. My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I always use CCC for

Re: CCC Bootable Backup

2008-12-02 Thread yawg
Hi Clark, Much of the files and folders used in booting and running the OS need to have Root as the owner. Simply changing permissions to a user account isn't going to work. You really need to recreate the clone with permissions not ignored. I didn't change a thing. I always cloned system

Re: CCC Bootable Backup

2008-12-02 Thread yawg
Hi guys, It seems apple may be saying an APM formatted disk will work on a Intell based Mac. Article HT2595 refers. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2595 but it only works on some models. So now I am wondering if I make a Universal drive and clone it to an APM formatted XHD will it be

Re: OSX ate my rights!! Was: Cloning problem

2008-11-14 Thread yawg
Hi all, Sorry for the double post. I forgot about my e-mail setup and replied directly from the Google group. Should have replied from my G-mail account ... Jörg. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List,

Re: OSX ate my rights!! Was: Cloning problem

2008-11-13 Thread yawg
three boot volumes isn't a luxury sometimes ... Regards, Jörg. On Nov 7, 4:54 pm, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:38 AM -0800 11/7/2008, yawg wrote: Please remember to BOTTOM post and TRIM on these LEM lists. It makes tracking support issues MUCH easier. I know about aliases, have been

Re: OSX ate my rights!! Was: Cloning problem

2008-11-13 Thread yawg
three boot volumes isn't a luxury sometimes ... Regards, Jörg. On Nov 7, 4:54 pm, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:38 AM -0800 11/7/2008, yawg wrote: Please remember to BOTTOM post and TRIM on these LEM lists. It makes tracking support issues MUCH easier. I know about aliases, have been

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

2008-11-13 Thread yawg
Hi Richard, Those photos look exactly like my Porsche brick only yours would be bigger as it is for an optical drive ... You will have to try to insert two small blades in the cracks of the case (two at once on one side at the height of the feet) and then push the bottom down a bit on that side

Re: Cloning problem

2008-11-07 Thread yawg
actually mean? That the file is busy when being cloned? Can I just look up the BootX file on an installer CD and replace the flaky one with that? Regards, Jörg. On Nov 6, 9:02 pm, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:02 AM -0800 11/6/2008, yawg wrote: Every time I try to clone my Panther

Re: Cloning problem

2008-11-07 Thread yawg
actually mean? That the file is busy when being cloned? Can I just look up the BootX file on an installer CD and replace the flaky one with that? Regards, Jörg. On Nov 6, 9:02 pm, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:02 AM -0800 11/6/2008, yawg wrote: Every time I try to clone my Panther

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

2008-11-07 Thread yawg
Hi, I opened a Porsche LaCie external (looks like a small brick with no features at all) with a kitchen knife once and it was a lot of fiddling around. It was a cheap sale item with a 500 GB disk in it. I needed the disk as an internal. When I put a smaller disk back in I broke something on the

Cloning problem

2008-11-06 Thread yawg
Hi, Every time I try to clone my Panther Partition to a partition on another disk I get the same error and CCC is telling me: System/Library/CoreServices/BootX:Input/Output error Can I just ignore the error or can it cause problems when I'm using the error-clone? What gives? I have a Tiger