Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2005

Does anybody know what has happened to the Applefritter forums?   I
can't seem to connect to it any longer.   Is it down?
www.applefritter.com
Is this link working for anyone else?

I'm trying to help my friend set up a hard drive in an  external FW 400
enclosure. The external enclosure (inexpensive) had a WD Caviar drive.
The drive went bad. He bought a new Seagate 300GB Ultra ATA drive. It's
an ST33008??A (I couldn't find this drive listed on their Web ...

could someone clear up some info i've heard about firewire capacity
limits?
i have a B & W G3 (OS X 10.3.9) and have a Macally 3.5" firewire case.
the specs are here :  

Anyone know of a iPod or iTunes group out there with any knowledgeable
members on it?
I have tried asking a few questions on the Apple groups and no one replies
to even simple questions, indicating that Apple relies on peers and no one

seems to be okay.   Anybody else put theirs through as much punishment?

Hey everyone!
I'm new here, and this site looks awesome, im definitly going to
stick around.
Okay, Well for Christmas, my mom promised me a Mac, i was going

iMac DV-SE, 450MHz, 5 years old, 30GB internal hard drive, 384MB; OS 9.1
(and will stay that way until I get a laptop).
I just got a bee in my bonnet about an external drive for storing stuff
(mostly a lot of photos).

What documentation I can find on mPlayer says that it will play Real format
video. I've had no success, however.
mPlayer is the only alternative I've heard of. Has anyone succeeded in
getting it to play Real video?

My folks just got an iMac and I want to transfer files from my
dual-800MHz Powermac to the iMac.
I am trying to find a tutorial on Firewire Target mode so I can make one
of the computers appear as a hard drive on the other machine so I can

Looking to put a Gigabit logic board into a 2001 Quicksilver case and
from what I can gather the psu pinouts are the same except for pin 9
(http://www.outofspec.com/frankenmac/wire.shtml  for instance) which
is +28 on the QS and is nc (normally closed I assume) on the Gig so

thinking of setting up a small in-home file server, probably based on
samba (or maybe some lighter-weight, simpler app/system, IF I can find
one).
are there =any= hard drive partion TYPES that can be 'directly written

I am just about fed up to my eyballs with HP I have been trying
unsucesfully for the last year to get my HP photosmart 1215 printer to
play nice with 10 apps and heres the kicker it works perfectly fine
with my 9 apps. anyone got any hints? anyone out there from HP can you

Hello, I have an AppleTalk printer but I'd like to connect it to my
PC. Is there any way I can do it?

  Old hard drive has given up the ghost.  I think the following drive
should work, but I'm not sure:
HITACHI Travelstar 4K40 HTS424040M9AT00(13G1132) 40GB 4200 RPM 2MB Cache
Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

I want a G5 iMac really but PC's fully equipped are less $$ and some
even offer a tradin / recycle program
http://tigerdirect.eztradein.com/tigerdirect/QuoteCalculator.cfm?level=1&value=9
&level2=165
OS X is slick but not that much, please help convince me otherwise.