if you borrow someone's Mini DV camera w/ a digital pass through capabilities you can get very good results. i used this method for a couple of vhs tapes and it worked fine. a lot…

I use http://www.miglia.com 's Director's Cut Take 2 product. It's a dv bridge and works very well. You can go the camcorder route with someone's miniDV camera. I've not noticed an…

Quote: Originally Posted by robby818 if you borrow someone's Mini DV camera w/ a digital pass through capabilities you can get very good results. i used this method for a coupl…

I used a Formac tvr which was $300. I imported it into imovie and went from there. The result i was impressd with.

I seem to be having a problem with GCC & XCode 2.1. I've been using XCode 2.0 for awhile, but I figured it was time to upgrade to XCode 2.1 I'm currently working on my own pe…

gcc_select lets you choose the version to use.

Thanks! I switched the compiler to GCC 3.3, and everything works now!

Forum index still shows zero replies for this thread. Stupid. Edit: Fixed now I guess.

Are the largest SATA internal HD's for a Power Mac G5 500GB? Due to the chassis, I know that you can only have a max of (2) internal HD's. Is their a limit to the size of the HD's …

Largest drive I know of today is 500 GB SATA. I'm sure a year from now there will be bigger ones. Biggest drive 8 months ago was 400 GB... biggest 12 months ago was 250 GB. When…

Serial ATA uses LBA48, which theoretically limits drives to 144PB, but the implementation in the G5 may have a lower limit (still well above any drive available today). A 500GB SAT…

Thank you CatOne, and just so I am clear, the full 500GB drives will work in a 2nd Generation Power Mac G5, correct? Will the full capacity (minus the formatting chunk of course) b…

Quote: Originally Posted by rickey939 Thank you CatOne, and just so I am clear, the full 500GB drives will work in a 2nd Generation Power Mac G5, correct? Will the full capacity…

I'd recommend you do little research. I've seen some issues with the 500gb Seagate SATA drive. Maxtor's 500GB should be shipping now.

Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison2001 I'd recommend you do little research. I've seen some issues with the 500gb Seagate SATA drive. Maxtor's 500GB should be shipping no…

Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison2001 I'd recommend you do little research. I've seen some issues with the 500gb Seagate SATA drive. Maxtor's 500GB should be shipping no…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Yes, you'll be able to use ~465GB of the drive in any G5 PowerMac. Most of the "loss" is due to the difference between 1 billion bytes and 1 g…

Quote: Originally Posted by rickey939 Have a link to the Seagate issues? That is one of the drives I am looking (Seagate Barracuda 7200.9) at, the other is the Hitachi Deskstar…

Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison2001 No links yet Rickey. I work for a reseller and we've had issues with multiple Seagate 500GB drives installing in our config warehouse…

Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison2001 No links yet Rickey. I work for a reseller and we've had issues with multiple Seagate 500GB drives installing in our config warehouse…

All SATA drives will work in a PowerMac G5. 500 GB drives are way too expensive, though, I'd get 400 GB drives if you really need the space. 500 GB drives are veeeery expensive per…

Quote: Originally Posted by OreoCookie All SATA drives will work in a PowerMac G5. 500 GB drives are way too expensive, though, I'd get 400 GB drives if you really need the spac…

Quote: Originally Posted by OreoCookie All SATA drives will work in a PowerMac G5. 500 GB drives are way too expensive, though, I'd get 400 GB drives if you really need the spac…

Wonder how long 500GB takes to format, 4 - 5 hours?

Quote: Originally Posted by voo Wonder how long 500GB takes to format, 4 - 5 hours? Quick format should take about a minute... why bother with a full format?