As for drives it is a size limitation of the B&W that is preventing you from using these drives at 200GB. If my memory serves me correctly its limited to 120 GB (or is it 128 GB can any one confirm this for ATA 33?) I believe you therefore have two options format and ignore the other 80 GB or partition each drive into two 100GB partitions ( this may need to be done on a machine that supports larger HDs than B&W Assuming you have enough free IDE cables left in B&W then they'll plug in, even if you have a ZIp, CD(DVD-ROM), and HD in there remove the OEM HD after formatting and installing first 200 MB drive and then put it on primary bus (where OEM HD lived) and then use the spare plug for the second drive.
On 16/11/2004, at 10:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I've been keeping an eye on this list since OS X came out, I think,
and haven't noticed this one: I want to put OS X on one of my PC's.
Since OS X is based on BSD + MachKernel (to boot on Macs in the first
place), and I have some introduction to what is involved porting *nix
from x86 to PPC courtesy of Debian Linux, I think this has to be
do-able. BeOS was available in binary for compilation on IA32 or PPC
processor formats, and seems to represents the third underpinning of OS
X, by the way in which OS X handles processing (CPU and GPU and
pre-emptive fetching).
Has anyone tried? The Darwin Project is interesting, but limited, and
you really don't end up with OS X in a number of respects.
As to why do this, it is because I like the way OS X looks and handles
on my B&W G4/400; but I have much more powerful processing in my
existing AMD 2.2 GHz CPU and NVidia FX5200-128MB AGP8x GPU and PC100 vs.
DDR266, and cannot afford to get a G5 anytime soon. What really kicked
this off was finding a pair of 200GB Maxtors on sale, taking them home,
and finding I would need yet another card upgrade before I could use
them on my Mac; and would still be stuck with 400MHz vs. 2.2GHz for
processing DV; and finding that a new DVD-RW for my PC would be <$70
versus >$100 for a slower and less-capable Mac compatible.
Why thow out the baby with the bath-water?
TIA,
David
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