Mac Forum / General / Hardware / December 2005

I have an iMac and an iBook, both with USB-1. I need an external DVD
writer, and may soon replace ny scanner and printer.
As most such peripherals are USB-2 now, (a) would they work under USB-1,
(b) is it possible to upgrade these older computers to USB-2 (and if so,

Hello, I'm reposting this from comp.sys.mac.system;  I got no responses
there.  :(
I have an eMac with built-in microphone and analog audio line-in jack.  
In System Preferences -> Sound -> Input, I can select between the mic

I recently bought a G3 iMac for my granddaughter. It was a school
surplus comuter and I bought it for her because of all of the
educational software that's on it. I would like to upgrade the OS and
add some software that I have but the HD and all of the control panels

To start of with, some background:
I have a G4 mirror drive door 1.25GHz dual processor system.  Some time
ago, the fan on the video card started making noise; the bearings are
shot.  Not just noisy, but the fan itself wobbles and the noise is when

I managed to clone the failing hard drive from my son's Powerbook, making a
copy of it onto a firewire external drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. I have
checked the "sparse image" which was made of the failing drive, using Data
Rescue 2, in order to confirm that the files and data on ...

the 120 GB HDD in my external Maxtor 5000DV just gave up. I replaced it
with a 200 GB Samsung HA200JC drive, set its jumper to cable select,
closed the case and attached it to my iMac. The drive works fine, I am
able to initialize and to format it as Mac Extended or FAT32, ...

I have a 1.25GHz Mini which I upgraded with 1 GB of RAM, DVD burner,
and 100 GB hard drive.  It has been running solid 24-hours-a-day for
the past several months with this configuration and the fan has barely
ever turned on (I only use the machine for light email and web

As in the topis - what'd be the best solution for small office and home as well?
Reasonable price range. Thanks for advices.
Eric

I feel that apple is very wrong....
i spent close to $500 bucks on a 20 gig ipod for them to come out with a new
model about a month later. and on top of that they are going to forget all
the people who bought an ipod before the new version and offer software

I'm trying to locate the drivers for an Orange Micro Grappler+ SCSI 906F
card. Orange Micro no longer has a website. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Rudy

I have a G4 tower (dual 450 MHz, ADC graphics) that has the open
firmware password set.  
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482
The hard has been wiped and due to the password I can't boot from a

I'm looking for a backup external hard drive for my iMac G5 and I think
I've narrowed it down to two suspects:
the Fantom Drive Titanium IEEE 1394 FireWire 80GB Hard Drive 7200rpm
and

I have a Mac G4 400 MHz Running OSX 10.2.8. It is time to add more
storage to it. But I have questions about the following Upgrades ...
1) Has a Stock Maxtor 20Gb IDE hard drive. I would like to add at least
200 Gb 2nd drive. Is there a limit to hard drive size that I can attach

Please help me identify the following cables. I already assume they are
Apple video cables (Apple logo). But I need to know the associated monitor
or video card if applicable.
http://home.comcast.net/~inexpensivepcs/images/APPLECABLE.JPG

I have an external plexwriter that I know is supported by osx.  If I
stick a cd in there it can read it fine, and if I insert a blank cd
it will ask me what I want to do with it.
Howevver if ever I try to burn a disc image or anything else for that