Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2006

Is there a "best" or "better" type of ethernet cable to use in wiring a
house?
Like to make sure we use what is the current best option both in terms
of manufacturer and type.

Upon advice offered here, I purchased a WiebeTech Notebook DriveDock to use with
a Fujitsu hard drive pulled from an iBook G4.
Unfortunately this drive won't fit in the dock. It has some protrusions or posts
extending out of the sides of the drive that prohibit it from sliding up to ...

I've just gone and got a second hard drive for my G5 powermac =) and i
heard that i could set the two drives up as "raid" which would impove
my computers performance by being able to use the two hard drives
simultanusly or something like that (i just want more juice, not too

I have an LCD HDTV (26-inch) with digital and VGA inputs.  I'm going to set up a computer of some
sort on it as an Internet terminal.  Strictly for web browsing and email, it doesn't need to do
video, play CD or MP3s, games etc...
I thought it would be neat to have a Mac instead of ...

I've ranted on this before and I'm ranting yet again.
Those engineers that somehow decide that whatever they are putting together
needs a power brick can rot in hell as far as I am concerned.
My significant other and I have a total of over thirty power bricks between

In trying to determine the best media data storage method, I've been
informed that DVD-R is one session and permanent while DVD+RW is
multi-session and to some extent reusable.  As I understand it, you
burn something to DVD-R once and that's it--so if it doesn't fill up

************  ATA/IDE disks for iMac
Hi all,
Where are there instructions for
replacing the hard disk of an iMac

I have several FireWire HDs attached to my Mac and I could install OS X
Tiger 10.4 on all of them except for one Seagate disk. The installer says it
can't be done.  I wonder why. It has the same Mac OS extended file system as
the others. Thanks, PaulN

I am new to OsX and did not realize that OE does not work!  I am using
Newswatcher X temporarily but I notice that it doesn't get all of the
newsgroups from my news server.  Any recomendations.  Thanks.

 How do I network my mac with my pc's ??
I can surf the net but can't figure out how to look at
the pc computers on my network...
 Also, where is the firewall that OS X is supposed to have.

I just got this error twice in a row (with a restart in between)
The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code = 0x09, 0x02

As I receive and delploy shipments of Apple G5's and notice the numbers
of failed equipment, I can roughly calculate that with Apple, their
failure rate of 10% is OK...nominal....skoal, baby!  They have no shame
in what they foist on the public anymore. Now that they offloaded their

I've just gone and got a second hard drive for my G5 powermac =) and i
heard that i could set the two drives up as "raid" which would impove
my computers performance by being able to use the two hard drives
simultanusly or something like that (i just want more juice, not too

I am in dire need of help. I have an external HD formatted in OS X
that I need to access using a Windows XP desktop. Apparently,
Windows XP does not recognize a HD formatted in OS X. Is there an
application I can use or a way to access my HD? Any help would be

I have a Mac G3 running 10.3.9 currently.  I swapped out my CDRW with a
Pioneer DVR 106D DVRW.  I burned a couple of DVDs at a friends house on
a Mac using Toast on his DVR 109D.  Mounted fine on his machine.  When I
got them home and tried to read on my DVR 106D it doesn't mount ...