G5 boot from RAID 0 array? - 18 years ago

Do the G5 towers boot from internal RAID arrays? 604e Macs did, QS G4's did not. Anyone tried a G5? Specifically a dual 2.5 G5? Thanks Jon

2.5" USB2 housings $19 - 18 years ago

Picked up at CompUSA yesterday a USB 2.0 housing for a 40GB drive left over from a dead Lombard. Simple case, need a tiny screw driver to assemble but works. Good deal for $20 Jon

Re: Help with drive permissions - 18 years ago

Not sure what I did, but I made a Root User, changed the premissions back to where they should be and problem solved. Each of the 3 drives were simply set to all users had no access. Jon

Help with drive permissions - 18 years ago

Had the boot drive fail on a dual 1.0 MDD, OS 10.4.6. Not a big deal, just replaced the drive, installed apps and updates but the three other drives inside this Mac won't mount. because I don't have permissions to access them. I added two users to the new installation, the same user names and passwords as before. I must be missing something, but what? Thanks for tips. Jon

Re: One thing's missing from the new Apple Store in NY: - 18 years ago

He would have better lluck holding his breath for 7 days then keeping a Dell running without virus protection running for 7 days

NYC Apple Grand Opening......Really owned by - 18 years ago

Re: Brother MFC-8500 prints light gray background on all pages - 18 years ago

I use one in my office, drums are about $89 and high capacity toners are $65. Good little printer/copier/fax with solid Mac support.

Re: NIB Mini G4 1.42 BT/AE/Combo drive still available - 18 years ago

The Costco by me has them listed as Mac Mini 1.5ghz. Jon

Re: Tell me: How do they ID a 'gator that chews on people? - 18 years ago

How do they check? Looking inside for parts.

Re: Costco: Kingston CF and SD on sale with 100% satisfaction goodness - 18 years ago

The Kingston Elite are pretty good, about 1/2 as fast as the Ultra II cards, but still able to keep up with most shooting conditions

Re: I want to set up a RAID... - 18 years ago

With four matching drives I would suggest two ways. First set up, makes 2 RAID 0 arrays, two striped arruys for maximum speed, and then either mirror the two arrays (RAID1) or set up a daily back up plan. Or RAID 5. RAID 5 will require a controller, but will give you 900GB of space from 4 300GB drives, while the plan above will give you only 600GB. Also, I would suggest getting a cheap

Re: Survey: Which SLR digi cams are people using? and for what? - 18 years ago

Canon 1Ds2 weddings and oher social events.

Re: OT: Weber versus Vermont Casting BBQ Grill - 18 years ago

I have been pleased with the Vermont Castings. Paid about $400 with tank and tax. Cooks great, cleans up great, I can even hose the whole thing out and it starts right up. 2 years and looks like new after a wash. Jon

Re: Photo folks: Which umbrella studio lights? - 18 years ago

AB are a good value, but aso consider used gear. LIghting gear is simple and durable, often lasting 25-50 years with regular use. Perhaps look for used Speedotron or Norman gear. Jon

Re: Hard drive into Quicksilver - 18 years ago

The 800mhz single, 933 single and dual 1.0ghz are ready for large drives, currently up to 750GB The single 733, single 867 and dual 800 will limit you to 128GB

Re: For The Apple Fan... - 18 years ago

I bought one years ago, it's kind of hard to see that it's an apple, once you remove the frozen thing from the tray. Jon

Re: Photoshop Batch Image Resizing Question - 18 years ago

The first thing that comes to mind is to first sort the files in Bridge by Dimension, then select only the files that are larger then the threshold. Then, go up to tools>photoshop>Imaage processor and process those files to the size you want. This will only work on the files you have selected. Jon

Re: don't want the jet-VW? Just missed the MiG 21 - 18 years ago

There is a collector that has various war planes at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, he has a working Mig-21 that he flies, as well as a pair of P51 Mustangs and other old war planes. I have met him and he told me that even after 30 years of flying, his first flight in the Mig-21 was almost his last flight ever. He said it was a scary flight because the controls were touchy and far more r

Deals on large CF cards - 18 years ago

2GB $59 4GB $115 8GB $210 SD cards are priced the same as well. Ridata, medium speed compared to the latest, but reliable, well made products. I have some that are still in service from 2002 (512MB, about 20x speed) Jon

Re: Device Removal warning sign: really a big deal? - 18 years ago

I have had several devices corrupted by doing this. I have never had any issues with simple recovery, but the directory can get scrambled. I would definatly stop the practice and start unmounting the drive first. Jon

Re: G5 iMac Hard Drive Size Limit? - 18 years ago

SATA, Seagate just annouced a 750GB drive

Re: Buying RAM - 18 years ago

Been pleased with the SAmsung ram from OWC, I also buy a lot of 256MB pulls from Ebay, typically $5 a stick. Start with a pair of 1GB sticks and use 256's in the other 6 slots in a G5 to make 3.5GB cheap

Re: earliest version of Photoshop that natively opens .CR2? - 18 years ago

you can download a free RAW to DNG converter from Adobe. This will convert the latest CR2 files into DNG files, which then can be opened as RAW files in CS

Re: Toast 7 crashing, OSX 10.4.6 - 18 years ago

Toast 7.0.2 is better but still a sucky app. I wish there was something better but I unfortunatly wasted $99 twice for two copies. Their tech support has been unhelpful.

Re: Seagate or Maxtor - 18 years ago

All I can tell you is that in my photography studio we currently have, between main storage arrays, boot drives and back up arrays. We have over 30 hard drives. Total space over 8TB. Over the years I have had 6 drive failures. 1 failed IBM and 5 Maxtors. We had a series of 3 120GB maxtors fail within 6-9 months. I have pushed Seagate drives to the limits without issues. Our first real

Re: Anyone had any luck with running Aperture on unsupported systems? - 18 years ago

I would like to see it run also, on any of my dual 1.8 G5's with 5200 cards or one of my dual G4's sporting sporting either 4ti or Rad9000 cards. Jon

Re: Who makes LaCie hard drives? - 18 years ago

WesternIBMaxtorgatedigtaltachi

Re: Raptor worth it for speed boost? - 18 years ago

Just to confirm, a G5 tower cannot boot from a RAID 0 array, without adding a Controller? Jon

Raptor worth it for speed boost? - 18 years ago

Otherwise stock G5 dual 2.5. Will I notice the difference of teh Raptor drive over the stock Seagate ? Jon

Re: Just ordered 3.2TB of RAID5 storage - 18 years ago

I looked at Wiebtech, nice but expensive. $2400 for a 5 drive 250G array. We keep all jobs live, online until the final albums are delivered. 30 days after that the entire project is burned to DVD and taken off of the server and back ups. I also looked into Xraid. Very good system, I could have gotten a 1/2 filled array up and running for around $9000, including OS X server. FibreCh