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SIIG PCI-to-Serial ATA Adapter Card for Mac
Date: 2006-07-17,  3:05AM
My surplus is your gain.  I no longer need the SIIG High-speed
dual-channel PCI-to-Serial ATA host adapter that lets my Macintosh

My Imac is a 400 mhz g3 indigo. I am pretty sure this model is Airport
ready. My question is do I have to search around for an old airport
card to get this imac on my wireless network? Or would any usb network
adaptor work? I am fairly dumb when it comes to these kinds of things.

I am trying to resolve an issue with connecting an LG DVD external USB
drive to a SUN server machine which only has SCSI (64-pin)
connectivity.  Can anyone offer any advice as to how I might achieve
this?

I recently aquired a 12X Toshiba CD-ROM drive to use with my G3 Mac but
the Mac won't recognize the drive. I have been searching and found
reference to two different hacks to solve the problem. I downloaded and
tried one called "CD-Sunrise v2.2c" and it works as advertised which

I'm in the market for a new Mac.  I'm defiantely going to get an Intel
Mac.  There has been some suggestion from my support people that one
might want to wait until the next rev of the hardware in order to avoid
the usual "version 1.0" bug.  However, I have some need to get a Mac ...

I got my new external firewire drive in a bad state. Perhaps it is a
hardwire problem.  I have a Generic brand enclosure with Prolific
PL-3507 chipset for a ATA/ATAPI 3.5" hard drive up to 300GB or above.
PL-3507 is a high performance combo bridge solution for connecting

I have a white base-spec MacBook, upgraded to 2 Gig RAM.  So far
*very* pleased with it generally: switching from Linux and Windows, of
course there are a few niggles to get used to (chiefly the single
mouse button; the inability to resize windows except at the bottom

SIIG PCI-to-Serial ATA Adapter Card for Mac
Date: 2006-07-17,  3:05AM
My surplus is your gain.  I no longer need the SIIG High-speed
dual-channel PCI-to-Serial ATA host adapter that lets my Macintosh

A few questions, medium difficultly if you guys know what I'm talking
about.
I'm going to buy an external hard drive enclosure for a 2.5" notebook
hard drive.  I was wondering if I need to have a Firewire port in order

I have a MacBook Pro which is normally connected to two external firewire 800
drives, one with two partitions and one with four partitions. Five of these
partitions are the recipients of SuperDuper! bootable clones. These five
partitions can each be booted from. The remaining ...

I have the following 3 things
(1) eMac with PowerPC G4 (1.25GHz), running Mac OS 10.4.7
(2)PowerComputing PowerBase with Power PC 603ev (180 MHz), running Mac
OS 8.1, no ethernet port

Will the new intel macs load any version of the MS OS or just the latest?
TIA

How many of Hours of Voice Recording on a 60GB IPOD???
I need to record lectures. How many hours of voice recording can I get
on an iPod?
How good is an iPod for lecture recording?

What kind of RAM for Titanium Powerbook/iBook G3?
I need to buy RAM memory, and need to know what kind to get for:
1GHz Powerbook Titanium 15"  Dual-Boot
900Mhz iBook G3 12" Dual-Boot

I am running itunes on an g5 imac and currently use a lacie 250 gig
exterior drive that falls asleep when not in use. Is it recommended
that I continue to use this drive, or can I purchase a non-sleeping
drive just for itunes. (its driving me a bit nuts).... perhaps I can