Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2006

I have a disk drive (2004 PowerBook G4) with a number of bad sectors (but
the number doesn't seem to be increasing now, and I'm ready to cope when
the thing really turns bad).
Recently I had a whole lot of errors in the filesystem as well (maybe due

If there is nothing on the CDRW or DVDRW, Disk Utility doesn't seem to
see it.  If I erase with Toast (not quick erase of course) is the data
really gone or can it be recovered?

I bought a Nano at the same time I bought my MacBook a few months
ago.  My first Mac, and my first Nano.
From my experience, I rack my brains trying to fathom how it is
*possible* that Apple has a reputation for the quality of its

I just bought a new Mac Pro.  I'd like to connect my old HP Laserjet
4MP, which still works beautifully, as well as my old Epson Perfection
636 Scanner.  I've heard my current PCI SCSI card won't work in the Mac
Pro.  Unless someone has a better suggestion, I'm guessing the best way

Anyone know how to fix a Lacie Big Disk USB 2/Firewire 800/400
enclosure? Its the circuit board not the power supply. The drive spins
up but does not mount. The same drive works fine in another enclosure.
Peace

I bought a 15g 3rd generation iPod at a garage sale yesterday. There are a
couple of things I need for it.
It came with a firewire connector. I have a PC with USB only. Can I replace
the firewire cable with a USB one, or should I get a firewire/USB adapter

So I needed some enlargements right away of 35 mm film pictures, all on
negatives, some on photo CDs, some not.  I have two printers supposed
to be superior for photography, an Epson Stylus Photo RX500 and a Canon
Pixma ip 5200 I just bought (after extensive questioning here)

I have read something about a 137 Gig limit (or something similar) for
older Macs, including my B&W.
Assuming that to be true, is it an absolute limit on the total drive, or
can it be "finessed" by partitioning -- say, a 200 Gig drive into two,

Has anyone else had problems with this combination?  I just purchased
the kit from FirmTek with the SeriTek/2EN2 dual-bay enclosure and the
SeriTek/1eSE2 card.  Installed a pair of brand new Seagate Barracuda
7200.10 drives and proceeded to power up the unit.  The drives did not

I am using a firewire PCI card. I also use an OWC Mercury elite 120gb
drive that works flawlessly. This neptune though is causing my machine
to freeze whenever I copy a somewhat large file to it. I'm using OS
9.2.2

stll having some agida figuring whether it works ( found it in the
street--looks good inside)--quick silver)
plugged in blue teal keyboard with puck mouse--did not see mouse cursor (
maybe not working--will get new mouse)

I have a Mac Mini with 512Mb RAM running MacOSX 10.4.7, which I purchased
specifically for cross-platform testing of websites. I'm experiencing some
unusual behaviour on certain browsers only whereby hyperlinks don't seem to
be "recognised" i.e. when the mouse is hovered over a ...

I use the Microsoft IntellMouse Explorer 2.0 Wireless mouse with my G4
with OSX 10.4.7 and it is really getting sluggish.  I changed the
batteries but it really seems non-responsive compared to the wired Apple
no button mouse.

I plan to buy a mac pro book intel dual core and use it as my main
computer in repalcement of my current linux desktop.
In order to maximize the battery's lifetime, I want to remove it and
never shut the machine down and put it in suspend mode.

I recently purchased two 30-inch Apple Cinema displays from Apple to
incorporate into my Final Cut Pro editing system.  One monitor can take
the display up to 2560 x 1600 while the other one can only go to 1280 x
800.