Hard Drive upgrades for Sawtooth G4 — #10
Oh cool!
Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with…
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iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #5
Some PPC Macs are very finicky about USB booting. They won't work at all, or require you to drop into Open Firmware to force it to try USB.
3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #9
Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS X overcomes th…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #35
ahh actually no. I have a rev a gossamer and it came with a SCSI drive and no IDE drive at all. we later added a 40GB IDE drive, but when time came to put OSX on it we had to buy…
3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #8
Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS X overcomes th…
Unix for 8-bit Apple — #20
What do you go by on there, since I haven't seen Dog Cow as a name on any messages.
Dean
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I don't post. I just read the news on my site. See this topic: view…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #4
You should be able to boot from a USB drive, as long as there is a known working OS 9 or OS X install on that drive. You will have to hold Option at boot with the drive connected. …
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #34
There were three revisions of the Beige G3 ROM: -A (LROG434-01/02), -B (LROG434-02) and -C (LROG434-03), and all with part no 820-0954. There are five subspecies of the Rev. A, but…
Apple II internet — #3
You may also want to look at IPNetRouter on the Mac.
http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipr_overview.html
It's $89 and you need a lot of patience and a degree in network technolo…
VST 100 zip drive PowerBook 3400c — #6
Ah yes, ye olde Zip drive problem! I too, have a 3400c and 100mb Zip module and indeed it does work fine under OS 8.6 as you mentioned, - perhaps because the Iomega drivers origina…
Apple II internet — #2
is there any way I can route the internet to the IIgs via a LocalTalk cable?
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I think so, but I think it's probably going to be more work than you want to do …
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #33
ATA cards show up as SCSI devices to the system bypassing the IDE issues with OSX on a beige G3 (also means once they are formatted on that card they cannot be used on the built in…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #32
To get OS X on an IDE drive, it must be installed on the first partition of the drive and that partition must be 8GB or less.
This can be overcome with the use of a Sonnet ATA/100…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #3
Thanks, Wackymacs, but I tried that, too. I get the screen with the refresh button on the left and the arrow button on the right, but no drives appear (with a good OS9 install disk…
Unix for 8-bit Apple — #19
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. I've seen you quite a few times on csa2 as well. UNIX on the Apple II is something that people have been talking about for over 20 years…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #31
Your USB card should be one with the NEC controller chip on it.
Then it will work in both Mac OS 9 (as USB1) and in Mac OS X (as
both USB1 and USB2).
I've heard, but not tested …
3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #7
I had 4 hard drives in my Gigabit G4. As long as jumper settings are set. It works. Sure I had no optical drive, but it worked.
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That's nothing special. The R…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #2
Power on the iMac, with a good known-working startup disc inserted, and hold Option. Wait, and a screen should appear showing the bootable options. When you can hear the hard drive…
Unix for 8-bit Apple — #18
I don't think that it does. I just read the manual last evening, and it looks like it's a bunch of BASIC scripts all tied together. It does have a task scheduler, though.
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3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #6
I had 4 hard drives in my Gigabit G4. As long as jumper settings are set. It works. Sure I had no optical drive, but it worked.
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3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #5
I had 4 hard drives in my Gigabit G4. As long as jumper settings are set. It works. Sure I had no optical drive, but it worked.
3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #4
What is the difference with Rev 1 and 2 with respect to HDs? I have 2 Rev 2 units and both I think have a 1 single and 2 dual HD trays (for 5 total) plus the cdrom and zip drive ba…
3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #3
I did that some time back. Used three 10gb drives raided.
Wayne
3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #2
The forum user Aoresteen had been also been able to do this in his Rev 1 B&W; he hasn't posted in a while though.
Beige G3 or iMac G3? — #24
I think I will get the B&W. And a 450.
(I remember I seen something about this, but can I pull the processor from a Yikes! and put on a B&W?)
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