The collected works of indyman007 - Page 3

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Indyman007: And it is cute, how cute a IA64 workstation can be anyway. I still need to find something cool to do with it other than booting it up and typing "finger" and "df -h" on it. It's fast as any modern box, but it's nowhere justified to run SETI@Home on it.

It looks like they USB3 cards are all going to be PCIe, so no. Besides, that old G4 wouldn't be fast enough to take advantage of it.

FWIW I ran a Mac Edition 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro in the MMD I had.

Yeah, standard parallel IDE hard drives - also known as PATA. The front bus supports ATA-66, the rear bus I believe is ATA-133, but it might be 100 - it's faster though.
Serial ATA drives will not work in this machine (unless you add a Mac compatible SATA controller).


Yes. Shortly after I got the machine, I added a 48x Plextor Plexwriter to the lower optical bay. To make it fit, I simply removed the front of the drive's tray (it hits the rounded opening from the inside). It was not supported at the time under 10.2, so I hacked a .plist file to enable finder burning. Later versions of the OS (10.3+) support most/all third party drives no problem. I'm also now using a Sony dual layer DVD burner externally in a homemade Firewire box. That too works flawlessly, no special software required.

-Ian

When adding a dual layer burner, if you add it internally, remember to get an parallel IDE one - fortunately they aren't too hard to find at the moment, but they might be getting scarce in the coming years.

-Ian

If the optical drive is to completely replace the original Superdrive, you might want to do a little research before purchase to make sure the new one will boot an install CD/DVD.

Looks like it should. I looked up the model number, it says it's IDE. Amazon's site sucks for useful information about products...

The bezel doesn't need to come off - just the end of the tray. I've yet to see an optical drive where the end of the tray *doesn't* come off. Just open the tray, and flip the drive over. Look at the bottom back of the tray's faceplate - they're clipped onto the tray with a two clips usually, one on each side. Just disengage the clips and slide it off.

I would install it in the lower bay and leave the original Superdrive - historically, Macs had a problem booting from non-apple drives. Personally, I've been able to boot from my external Firewire DVD drive just fine.

-Ian

Problems with usb 2.0 card. Sleeping will not work correctly anymore.

In mine it works. But when i put in a usb pci card and I use it, my pm doesn't stop anymore.

Sleep is flakey on these machines anyway - or, at least, it was in 10.2. The first peripheral I ever bought for my Mac was a USB floppy drive. After it was connected, the machine would crash every time it went into sleep. At this time, the floppy drive was the *only* piece of third party hardware connected, and the machine was under warranty. I called Apple, and explained the problem - their solution? Just plug in the floppy drive when I wanted to use it.

I disabled sleep and have never re-enabled it.

-Ian