Mac Forum / General / Hardware / November 2004

Is there a [reliable] way to use my gazillion SCSI hard disks on my Mac G5
with OS X, say, using a PCI card or a Firewire gizmo? Thanks, PaulN

Ich habe ein Aluminium PB 1.25GHz, welches nun ca. ein Jahr alt ist. Ich
mache mir gerade mal Gedanken über meine Akkulaufzeit. Wenn der Akku
aufgeladen ist und ich den Rechner vom Netz nehme, bekomme ich eine
berechnete Restlaufzeit von 3 Stunden, wenn die Hintergrundbeleutchtung

I am just about to get my new imac g5 and I want to purchase a
camcorder for my boyfriend for christmas - why are these related?
because i want to make sure it works with my mac! i also want to
spend around $400 or less (prefereably a little less) and have heard

i need to change the HD in my 15" PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz so i'm looking
for it's Apple Service Manual, can someone post it here or point me to
an URL. Google didn't find anything...
Thanks

I have a few HDs I made into external drives but I have problems
using them on both my PC and Mac.  I formatted them on my Mac and
can use them fine, but once I plug it into my PC, it sees that
something is in the USB port, but doesnt assign it a drive so I can

I have a new FW Lacie ext HD. Using Carbon Copy Cloner, I cloned a
partition with 10.3.6 on it to the Lacie. I checked Make Bootable.
However I cannot get it to boot. It appears as a startup in system
preferences. Will not boot when this is selected. It does not appear

I am setting up a small business; it will have a total of 4 people. As
it is an international film sales agency, the majority of the work
done will be sharing files, tons of e-mail, etc. Nothing too
horrendously out of the ordinary for a moden business.

have
brought a G3 with no op system on it put the hard drive from my old
G3 into it and itjust starts up and shows me a file and a question
mark and then turns the monitor off could anyone shed any light on

A pair of screws fell out of the bottom case for an old Titanium Powerbook.
Does anyone know the specs for these screws?
(they look like metric; 2mm wth ~20 threads per cm; 8mm length)
Any advice on finding replacements?

Any one know the trick to getting the installation of 9.2.2 to format the
drive HFS for later installation of OS X?

I have a beige PowerMac G3 with Mac OS 9. My good ol' ADB keyboard is
starting to die, so I have to get a new one. My Mac has some USB ports
via an expansion card. I was wondering: would a USB keyboard work for
me?

I have some old Betamax tapes (6), which are 16 to 20 years old, and a
20-yr. old Sony Betamax (SL-2305) vcr, and I want to transfer the tapes
to DVD via iMove (vers. 4.01).  Last year I bought the Formac Studio DV
and it's sat on a shelf mostly unused.  I assume that I just plug ...

I'm a little unclear on exactly what's involved with the process of
updating the firmware on the 107 superdrive that came with my G5, what
benefits I'll get out of it, and what risks I'm taking by doing it.  Can
someone summarize?

I am purchasing a 20gb Ipod for my son for Christmas and he already has a
Mini, which I am going to sell. What would be the steps to maintain his old
library and install the new 20gb 4th generation Ipod on his PC?

I have a now dead powerbook 140.  The HD contains some text data I need
to recover.  I just pulled it from the machine, and realized it has a
connection I am not familiar with.  How do I connect this to a regular
SCSI interface so that I can retrieve this data?