Re: HD recommendations for 2002 Quicksilver G4

You may find the controllers and drives if you join the Low End Macs Swap list. Good luck Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer

Re: HD recommendations for 2002 Quicksilver G4

I currently use the G4 to run legacy S/W -- I guess it's more of a hobby machine and not my primary H/W. I do have a lot of audio and photo files on it, as well as some legacy PPC S/W that I do not want to loose. On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 4:10 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio wrote:

Re: HD recommendations for 2002 Quicksilver G4

I have the same machine and still use it all the time because there is so much good software that I use which is not available for my Macbook Pro. I installed a gigabit PCI ethernet card, a sata drive with SeriTek 1S2 PCI controller, an external Firewire OWC hard drive, GeForce4 Ti 4600 video

Re: HD recommendations for 2002 Quicksilver G4

Is this a hobby computer or a machine that has been a DAW or other workstation? That would mean a great difference. Or is it the only dire option between you and being cut off from the world. Or perhaps a trusted and faithful companion you cannot part with? Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer

Re: HD recommendations for 2002 Quicksilver G4

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

HD recommendations for 2002 Quicksilver G4

Hello everyone, I'm sure that this question has been asked before, but I would appreciate receiving any information regarding replacement / upgrades for my "old" (original) hard drive. I'm concerned that it has been with me for over 15 years. How should I replace and/or upgrade it? Thanks in

Re: Seagate hybrid HD crashes in a MDD

Hi Bruce, Thank you. Op zaterdag 30 april 2016 21:57:37 UTC+2 schreef joh...@pharmacy.arizona.edu: > > > > Does Disk utility show any SMART errors? I suspect it may be a flaky > drive. You can also get a utility like this < > https://www.volitans-software.com/apps/smart-utility/> which will

Re: Seagate hybrid HD crashes in a MDD

> On Apr 30, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Jörg Duurkoop wrote: > > ut I experienced three crashes in three days after the purchase. The crash > happened always with three apps running, TenFourFox with about twelve > windows/tabs open, Vuze downloading a movie and watching a low-res

Seagate hybrid HD crashes in a MDD

Hi, I own one of the last MDDs, a 1.25GHz dual processor machine. My system is 10.4.11. Since my normal bootdisk, a WD 1TB SATA developed some bad blocks I bought a new harddisk to boot from, a Seagate SSHD ST2000DX001 2TB, a hybrid with 8GB of SSD memory. It's placed alongside my old WD in

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

Original message from smac0031, 2015-05-31 04:34: I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 10.1.11. It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data drive. The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

Yes, I’m having the same problem with my 2000 Quicksilver w/2001 Processor. Using it Offline with all my financial Data on it. Quicken 207 On May 30, 2015, at 9:34 PM, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote: I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 10.1.11

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

of times before starting up. This time it came up and I didn't get a Kernel Panic. I was able to copy 280GB of files to it. I'm going to put it back in the G5. This new drive is going back. Thanks, Mark On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 10:34:16 PM UTC-4, smac0031 wrote: I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

On Jun 4, 2015, at 6:16 PM, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote: I tried swapping 1TB seagate from my G5 into my DA G4 and the new drive into the G5. The new drive would spin in the G5 and would not come up under Disk Utility. The Seagate came up in the G4 and after about a minute the

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

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

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

I tried swapping 1TB seagate from my G5 into my DA G4 and the new drive into the G5. The new drive would spin in the G5 and would not come up under Disk Utility. The Seagate came up in the G4 and after about a minute the G4 had a kernel panic. I'm sending the new drive back. Weak link may be

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 9:34:16 PM UTC-5, smac0031 wrote: I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 10.1.11. It's had startup issues for some time. It order to reboot it you have to use the button on the front. Same for shutdown. I just let

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

Cable Select, and this is the optimal choice for those machines. Alas, the Mini from the same generation DOES NOT support Cable Select ... the caddies are Master (the built-in hard drive, only) OR Slave (the optical drive caddy) ... however, those caddies intended to support a second HD in the place

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

On Jun 1, 2015, at 1:32 PM, t...@prismnet.com wrote: On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 9:34:16 PM UTC-5, smac0031 wrote: I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 10.1.11. It's had startup issues for some time. It order to reboot it you have to use

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

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?

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

100 bus, but have still have experienced a noticeable improvement in performance with these large capacity Sata drives, much faster than using an external firewire box like the Voyager. I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 10.1.11. It's hooked

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

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

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

I have 120 and a 300 in it right now. The 120 is the boot drive. I have a lot of video files that are filling up the 120. Will a 500GB pata work? Mark Murphy On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 10:34:16 PM UTC-4, smac0031 wrote: I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:34 PM, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote: I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter

Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 10.1.11. It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data drive. The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing. Starting with the optical empty does nothing. The computer

Need the pinout for the power connection on the Cinema HD 22 DVI display

i was given the above monitor, but no power supply. the cheapest one i can find is $80 which is an amount i don't want to invest into this monitor. to make sure i've identified the monitor properly, it has a ring on the cable from which emanates the cable into the monitor, the power cable, a

Re: HD replacement goof

On Mar 30, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Fred Thiel fth...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I got many error messages saying 'USBF: 612.769 found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 25, timing out!' After I realized my mistake, I re-configured the boot drive correctly and the machine runs much

HD replacement goof

Greetings all 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,

Re: HD replacement goof

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

Re: G5 HD Screws

hard drive and just realised it has special Mac screws. There's a spare set located within the G5 along the wall of the HD area. Look around, you should already have a set unless you bought this used, or lost them. Best luck! Kris Tilford - Topeka, Kansas -- -- You received

Re: G5 HD Screws

Il giorno 23/08/13 19.33, Macg4-steve ha scritto: Has anyone got four of those rubber Hard drive screws for the G5? Im after putting in a second hard drive and just realised it has special Mac screws. When I got a second-hand G5, it missed both the hard-drive and those special screws. Since

Re: G5 HD Screws

On Aug 23, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Macg4-steve wrote: Has anyone got four of those rubber Hard drive screws for the G5? Im after putting in a second hard drive and just realised it has special Mac screws. There's a spare set located within the G5 along the wall of the HD area. Look around, you

Re: SATA Internal HD for G5

Also look at OWC: http://www.macsales.com/ They have SATA and IDE/ATA drives of more modest capacities for older machines. Their phone sales staff provide excellent service. Al Poulin On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 8:17:20 PM UTC-4, Ken Daggett wrote: I am looking to buy one or two new HDs for

Re: SATA Internal HD for G5

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

SATA Internal HD for G5

I am looking to buy one or two new HDs for a newly acquired G5 DP 2GHz machine. Any druthers between Seagate and Western Digital? (Or any other brand, for that matter.) Ken -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: SATA Internal HD for G5

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. Sent from my mobile device. On

Re: SATA Internal HD for G5

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,

Re: SATA Internal HD for G5

On Jul 31, 2013, at 6:45 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: 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

Re: SATA Internal HD for G5

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.

Re: SATA Internal HD for G5

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:05 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: The 3 TB 5,900 rpm drives in the former Barracuda family are now called desktop drives. 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

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

ones. I've used one to boot OS 9 on a 9600 via an external 1tb Lacie HD (partitioned of course). -- -- 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. The list FAQ is at http

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

on that feeble old 150W internal power supply. Only remaining question, then, is how to tell if a hard drive or HD enclosure is compatible with the beige port? What spec do I need to ask about before I purchase? It looks like there's quite a variety of SCSI interfaces and protocols out

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

cheap enough, they're almost giving away small used ones. I've used one to boot OS 9 on a 9600 via an external 1tb Lacie HD (partitioned of course). A Sonnet SATA card would be a pricey addition to an old Mac that's severely limited already. For the price of the Sonnet card you could

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

so you could easily move data to another machine. New SATA drives ate cheap enough, they're almost giving away small used ones. I've used one to boot OS 9 on a 9600 via an external 1tb Lacie HD (partitioned of course). A Sonnet SATA card would be a pricey addition to an old Mac that's

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

Also, IIRC there WAS a line of MDD 1.25 systems that were released after the G5 came out that did boot in OS 9, released in response to the demands of a lot of BIG customers using (IIRC) mostly Quark Express. Rule of thumb: Power Mac G4 with FW400 can boot OS 9; FW800 cannot. This doesn't

Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

, not necessarily true for the OS, since the drive and partitions mount and function fine on my desktop. My goal is to be able to boot from an external HD that I can specify with Startup Disk or on startup via key command . Startup Disk sees the FW System folder and I set the FW drive as boot

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

Try booting while holding option. You should have a boot disk selection thing at that point. -- -- 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. The list FAQ is at

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

In my post I mentioned that I tried the command+option+shift+del key command on startup without result. That's the official command, according to Apple http://support.apple.com/kb/TA43845?viewlocale=en_US. The same non-response happens with option on startup. I did check to see that it would

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

On Feb 10, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Click wrote: Ideas and suggestions, please Since the Beige G3 didn't come with either built-in Firewire or built- in USB, neither if these are natively bootable, and holding the Option key, or trying to select the HD in Startup Disk won't work. The only

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

wrote: Ideas and suggestions, please Since the Beige G3 didn't come with either built-in Firewire or built- in USB, neither if these are natively bootable, and holding the Option key, or trying to select the HD in Startup Disk won't work. The only natively bootable external option

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

On Feb 10, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Click wrote: Tnx, Kris. That's what I was beginning to think. Seems a little odd given the internal ATA drive(s) boot setup. So I need to look for a SCSI interface external drive. What version of SCSI would work on the beige G3 built-in port-only v1? Does

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

On Feb 10, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Click wrote: Tnx, Kris. That's what I was beginning to think. Seems a little odd given the internal ATA drive(s) boot setup. So I need to look for a SCSI interface external drive. What version of SCSI would work on the beige G3 built-in port-only v1? Does

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

ROM which allows for a slave device on the cable. I was just hoping not to add any more power usage strain on that feeble old 150W internal power supply. Only remaining question, then, is how to tell if a hard drive or HD enclosure is compatible with the beige port? What spec do I need to ask

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

Try a IDE SCSI adapter. I am sure that it is a standard IDE drive in a FireWire to IDE case. -- -- 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. The list FAQ is at

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

On Feb 10, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Click wrote: The setup that I tried originally was an 80G drive partitioned into 7G and 83G on the external FW device. Since the internal ATA drive is only 6G, this allowed me to backup the internal ATA drive completely to that first partition. My intent was

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

internal HD. Alternately, remove the 80GB HD from the FW enclosure and install it into the Beige G3. 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

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

OK, Thanks so much to all for the good ideas. You're a knowledgeable and resourceful bunch! I'll post back with what I decided to do. -- -- 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

Re: Beige G3 Desktop External HD Device Boot

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

Specs on a Borderline 23 Apple Cinema DIsplay HD

Can anyone tell me more (tonight hopefully), about this 23 Apple Cinema Display HD? Identifiers: Aluminum - M9178LL/A - A1082 In particular, is it from the later made models that had 700:1 contrast ratio, as opposed to the early ones that had 400:1? Here are some research sites: This site

Update (solution) to HD boot problem

We have successfully re-united my eMac 125 with its external HD and Leopard OS. After many emails to the manufacturers, and several purchases and returns, it turns out that even when the box and literature say the drive enclosure will go back to 10.2 and that the case claims to sport Firewire

Re: Update (solution) to HD boot problem

On 8/1/12 10:35 AM, Don Wakefield wrote: We have successfully re-united my eMac 125 with its external HD and Leopard OS. After many emails to the manufacturers, and several purchases and returns, it turns out that even when the box and literature say the Maybe that was the problem w

Testing HD Performance RAM In MDD Under X.4 or X.5

Greetings, I recommend using applejack however be sure that when you do the install that you CHECK the box that says install memory test. Cheers Harry -- 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

Testing HD Performance RAM In MDD Under X.4 or X.5

What do folks recommend to use to test RAM for defects in an MDD under 10.4 or 10.5. I guess I could boot into 9.2 and use the old standby, RAMometer. Also, what do folks recommend to test hard disk performance? I have here an MDD which has been working mostly trouble-free for years with 1.5

Re: Testing HD Performance RAM In MDD Under X.4 or X.5

On Jul 15, 2012, at 7:37 PM, t...@prismnet.com wrote: What do folks recommend to use to test RAM for defects in an MDD under 10.4 or 10.5. I guess I could boot into 9.2 and use the old standby, RAMometer. I have here an MDD which has been working mostly trouble-free for years with 1.5

Re: Testing HD Performance RAM In MDD Under X.4 or X.5

On 16/07/2012 03:37, t...@prismnet.com t...@prismnet.com wrote: What do folks recommend to use to test RAM for defects in an MDD under 10.4 or 10.5. I guess I could boot into 9.2 and use the old standby, RAMometer. I use Memtest on my dual 1.25 MDD with 2 GB of ram and 10.5.8 - although

Re: HD Boot Problem

At 4:07 PM -0700 7/12/2012, Don Wakefield wrote: After a power outage, my external 500 gig Firewire Verbatim HD, (which functioned as my boot drive for my eMac,) refused to power on. I took the unit to MacHQ (a nearby Mac Repair Business) and they pulled the Samsung drive out of the Verbatim

Re: HD Boot Problem

Il giorno 13-07-2012 1:07, Don Wakefield ha scritto: they pulled the Samsung drive out of the Verbatim enclosure and installed it into a Macally enclosure. [...] Unfortunately, the unit would not start the Mac. I'm not a hardware expert, but I seem to remember some external enclosures (maybe

HD Boot Problem

After a power outage, my external 500 gig Firewire Verbatim HD, (which functioned as my boot drive for my eMac,) refused to power on. I took the unit to MacHQ (a nearby Mac Repair Business) and they pulled the Samsung drive out of the Verbatim enclosure and installed it into a Macally enclosure

Re: HD Boot Problem

On Jul 12, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Don Wakefield wrote: What ideas do any of you have as to what would cause the Leopard OS external HD to be unable to boot the eMac like it did before? Select the Firewire HD partition in Startup Disk, then hold the Cmd-v keys to initiate the verbose boot dialog

Re: HD remounts and Ipod Touch issues

I think I;m starting to sort this out, if not actually SLOVE it, the HD seems to have a bad volume header... other drives are working. the Seagate 1T that dropped off came back with a nudge from MOUNT in Disk Utilities and shows up fine on reboots one iPod Touch wouldn't show up, while

Re: HD remounts and Ipod Touch issues

On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:04 AM, JohnV wrote: one iPod Touch wouldn't show up, while another one did Now BOTH are working fine... maybe one was so far discharged it wouldn;t function until it got restored to some level? That's a possibility; I know that my MacBook Pro won't boot up

Re: HD remounts

On 4/26/12 12:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? You've got a USB issue here. First your iPod Touch isn't recognized, now you're saying your HDs

Re: HD remounts

Had a similar problem with an iMac at work and it also would go to sleep at very spontaneous moments, typing, drawing, whatever it didn't matter just went to sleep, hit any key and it would come back. When the HD icon disappeared off the desktop, it would cause the drive to disappear from Disk

HD remounts

When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? John V -- 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. The list FAQ

Re: HD remounts

On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? John V There may be utilities to do this, but you can fire up Disk Utility, select it and select 'Mount' in the top bar. You can also just

Re: HD remounts

On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? John V There may be utilities to do this, but you can fire up Disk Utility, select

Re: HD remounts

At 7:33 PM -0400 4/25/2012, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? When a drive goes to sleep, the volume icons DO NOT drop off the screen. If the volume icons went away without you intentionally dismounting

Re: HD remounts

On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? You've got a USB issue here. First your iPod Touch isn't recognized, now you're saying your HDs are drop off the screen which isn't

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:45 PM, gifutiger wrote: John, If it is your Spotlight then click on the Spy Glass in the upper right corner and you should see a message that Spotlight is indexing your system. If you have more than one drive then the message will say which drive is being indexed.

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

Does such constant HD activity happen with external HD's attached to Windows laptops? Dr. Paul J. Cefola Adjunct Professor, Dept. Of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY) Consultant in Aerospace Systems, Spaceflight Mechanics, Astrodynamics 508-696-1884 (Vineyard

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Paul Cefola wrote: Does such constant HD activity happen with external HD's attached to Windows laptops? no idea. However this machine -IS- usually networked with the iMAC (I. 83GHz INtel Core Duo 10.6.8) and both have several HD's attached

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:27 AM, JohnV wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Paul Cefola wrote: Does such constant HD activity happen with external HD's attached to Windows laptops? no idea. However this machine -IS- usually networked with the iMAC (I.83GHz INtel Core Duo 10.6.8

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt. Turning off Spotlight can be done, but then it disables the Finder's Find command as well. I wouldn;t think I'd WANT to disable SPOTLIGHT if it can work right. As Dan mentioned,

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:35 AM, JohnV wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt. Turning off Spotlight can be done, but then it disables the Finder's Find command as well. I wouldn;t think I'd WANT to disable

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt. Here's a good site for fixing problems like that: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html this worked great... or seems to be in the process of doing so. Inside the

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

At 10:26 AM -0700 3/19/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: I've found that the main thing with Spotlight index rebuilding is to leave the computer completely alone while it does this; start the rebuild before you go to bed and let it run overnight. This results in a clean rebuild of the index and

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

At 2:25 PM -0400 3/19/2012, JohnV wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt. Here's a good site for fixing problems like that: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html this worked great... or seems to be in the

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Dan wrote: this worked great... or seems to be in the process of doing so. Inside the SPOTLIGHT preferences I 'prevented' all the attached and internal drives, then undid that. It is now indexing, the SPOTLIGHT icon is active, and when I click on that icon it

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

, 2012 8:16:08 PM UTC-7, JohnV wrote: When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 2GB SDRAM 10.4.11 RUNNING APPS: MAIL CALENDAR TEXT EDIT APPLEWORKS 6

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

At 1:20 AM -0400 3/18/2012, JohnV wrote: mdimport seems to be the one... Ok. Give it time. Once its done the indexing, it should go away. If it persists for more than a few hours, then it might be stuck or the index might be corrupted. Spotlight issues have been covered in quite a few

G5 Constant HD activity

When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 2GB SDRAM 10.4.11 RUNNING APPS: MAIL CALENDAR TEXT EDIT APPLEWORKS 6 ITUNES 8.2.1 -- You received this message

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, JohnV wrote: When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. Probably Spotlight doing it's thing. Fire up Activity monitor and watch what's

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

At 11:16 PM -0400 3/17/2012, JohnV wrote: [G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 2GB SDRAM 10.4.11] When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. RUNNING APPS: MAIL CALENDAR TEXT EDIT APPLEWORKS 6

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

mdimport seems to be the one... thanks. On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, JohnV wrote: When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

On Mar 15, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: I CAN NOT DUPLICATE THIS USING: Portable: Capacity:465.76 GB Removable Media:Yes Detachable Drive:Yes BSD Name:disk2 Version:1.30 Bus Power (mA):500 Speed:Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer:

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

On Mar 15, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: NOT WHAT DU SAID! I CAN NOT DUPLICATE THIS USING: Portable: Capacity:465.76 GB Removable Media:Yes Detachable Drive:Yes BSD Name:disk2 Version:1.30 Bus Power (mA):500 Speed:Up to 12 Mb/sec

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:07 PM, JohnCarmonne wrote: PPC will not boot a GUID HDD AFAIK. You're correct, the partition map needs to be Apple Partition Map which CAN boot both Intel PPC Macs. Might this correct a WD Passport external

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:41 PM, David W. Morris wrote: On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:07 PM, JohnCarmonne wrote: PPC will not boot a GUID HDD AFAIK. You're correct, the partition map needs to be Apple Partition Map which CAN boot both Intel

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

REPLY IN CAPS BELOW --- On Thu, 3/15/12, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: From: John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com Subject: Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 5:26 PM On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:41 PM, David W. Morris wrote

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5 Yes, this is true. Only a very few of the USB 1.1 Macs can boot from USB, only the colored iMacs iBooks, and none of the G4's can boot from USB AFAIK. You'll need an external enclosure with both

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5 Yes, this is true. Only a very few of the USB 1.1 Macs can boot from USB, only the colored iMacs iBooks, and none of the G4's can boot from USB

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