Mac Forum / General / Hardware / August 2004

Internal Quantum HD (original drive) in PowerMac 8600 won't start
spinning after sitting unused for many months.  The 8600 will boot from
its original System 7.6 CD and read ZIP drives, and Apple System
Profiler shows the internal HD as still there on SCSI port 0, but it

I bought a Pioneer DVR-A07U drive, in the belief that it CAN be used
in Panther on a 733MHZ G4. Am I wrong or right?
I have not yet opened the box, waiting to confirm that it IS
compatible, and installs just as the DVR-107 does.

I have a performa 6360.  Can it use a 20 GB hard drive, or is there a
limit? It currently has a 6GB drive, and I wonder if a newer drive can
be installed. The machine works not bad since its been maxed on RAM
and has a nice G3 card in it as well as with USB, and a 100 base T

I'm trying to get my lg ced-8120b working with os/x.  
When I run hdiutil from the command line I get this:
hdiutil: burn: no CD/DVD drives present
hdiutil: burn failed - Operation not supported by device

What hard drive should I buy? Maxtor, Western Digital or Hitachi? Are
there any differences between them? Looking at 250 gig SATA drives.

I have an usb key, i plug it, i copy files on it, ok... What i don't know :
is it the same for the ipod mini ? Can i link it to my pc and copy any files
i want on it ? Not only mp3, but any files ? Is it easy or have i to make
some partitions or nerds stuff like that on the disk ;) ...

I see that AirPort is based upon 802.11g, sometimes called "wireless
ethernet" (a bit of a misnomer on my opinion, but no matter).  Does that
mean that a typical 802.11g router like those by LinkSys would work with it?
Relatedly, do you folks know of routers that have a ...

I have CompuCable FireXPress external drive.  The Mac OS supports
installation of OSX on external drives, and supports booting from
firewire drives.  But when I run the installer I can't install OSX on
the drive.