Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / October 2003

Problem: itunes doesn't recognize an iPod daisychained to an external
firewire drive.
I've got a biggish music collection housed on an external firewire drive
(Lacie 200gb). My powerbook sees it no problem.

Firewire devices and Panther do not get on, as I discovered the hard
way, after losing 212GB of data when Panther killed the disk
for more info see:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?50@255.6VSkaE4Fj1f.0@.599b4a59

clean installing Panther on my 1GHz G4 Powerbook, after copying the
whole of the 60GB internal to the external 250GB
installation went ok, no problems etc
after the install finished, the firewire drive cannot be mounted, and

1. Can anyone suggest why putting two 512 MB (PC133) Ram modules (bought
from an Apple reseller) in my G4/466 has slowed everything down? -
particularly when switching between apps, there's a 1-2 second delay
Thanks

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Does anyone have any? or a link to some - seems all the ones i find are pc
ones and don't work...
Thanks, Robotman.

Greetings all,
installed Panther on my 700mhz flat-panel iMac yesterday; impressive,
but I get odd things happening with the keyboard: window cycle
(command `) sometimes doesn't work but I've completly lost the use of my

My new eMac is fantastic, can't fault it in any way, but does anybody
know of a way to make the screen display to a firewire device? Is
there a software hack which might do this? It's not an urgent request,
just a curiosity.

picked up a 7200 for my dad to use and have had trouble booting it up.
here's what happens:
•Boot up sound
•Happy Mac (hard drive clicking away)

I'm trying to find a relatively (no pun intended) simple
freeware/shareware database, suitable to record, sort, print, etc a home
library, with details such as title, publisher, cost, comments.
I've looked at a few at Twocows, but nothing suited.

anyone know a similar app for creating music loops like www.fruityloops.com
but for mac ?

hi: I have a mate with a G4 OSX m/c and he wants to move to Broadband /
ADSL , whatever .
He asked me for some advice , so I thought  I'd ask here for
pointers.(sorry but Im a winXP user ).

I can't get Classic apps to recognize my shiney new HP1210 printer.
I suspect its HP's driver, which seems to install an 1100 series
driver in the Classic system folder and has no custom install option.
Can't boot into Classic (too new a machine to do that) to install the

I have the misfortune to work in an agressively Windows environment.
If I want to print with my iBook 700 OS.2.7 I simply print to my printer
but at work it's a different problem. The only printers available are on
Windows shares.