Jeff W wrote,
>Some of the OEM Compaq drives just won't work on the Mac. I don't
>know why, but I banged my head against one salvaged from a Compaq
>server several years ago and tried every formatting utility known to
>Macdom, with no success. That doesn't mean that you're in teh same
>boat, but it is possible.
>
>2 GB Barracudas may be new in the sense of never being ussed, but
>they are not new. I don't think Seagate has made a drive that small
>in quite some time. Are these 32550s?
Good guess - ST32550W model remanufactured under licence - I've
given up on them as they are a complete no show on the int scsi so
whatever's written on them is gibberish to a mac. I bought them as
Seagate ST32550W Barracudas and didn't know about the Compaq branding -
sending them back for a credit.
>and
>In the spirit of indefinite answers....I have heard that this is
>normal but do not know for certain.
Now that is strange - I'd rather have the good old chimes than the
strangled sputter that I get from this G4 zif (got it from Gary Bailey by
the way). Great teccy toy but it gets wearying to maximise the
performance with the 12 dips and four tweezer job jumpers - can't see why
the jumpers aren't dips. Got it up to 450mhz with the cpu/ram speed but
can only get the bus upto 9x at low op temps - a better heatsink might
improve things or a fan in the bay 7 cage with a partial deflector up to
the underside of the disk in bay 6 and across the heatsink...another
project....
>and
>The 8500 and 7600 motherboard have exactly the same form factor, so
>it should fit. In fact, the 8500 and 7600 (and 7500) are the same
>circuit board. The 8500 just has a few extra chips soldered in
>place. You can see the spots in the middle of the top side of the
>7500 and 7600 where the chips are not installed. I've heard that
>the 8600 is actually a different board, but I haven't confirmed that.
>It should also fit in that case as well.
I've bought the 8500 LB anyway for 14 pounds with 3MB of vram and
most of the ram slots full - the 8200 was 5 pounds plus carriage - not a
bad deal altogether. I just bought 512 megs of ram for it. I'm surprised
by the poor internal accessibility - a larger case seemed to be in order.
My intention is to make it a G4 and spray it black or gunmetal - anybody
know the best paint for the metal case and the palstic bits? Also
spraying the Pulsar a similar colour - a little easier as the external is
mostly plastic. Has anyone had success with spraying that doesn't
scratch? Perhaps I'm going senile..
After an 8600/9600 now to do another black G4 with attitude -
they're so cheap now I can't resist.
Thanks Jeff and everyone
Pete in the UK
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