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A simple circuit schematic that adds SCSI activity lights to signalise not only transfer activity but also the involved device ID. This might be useful for diagnostic purposes. The complete information is available here: horst-lehner.mausnet.de/efaq

I have put a small SATA SSD along with a SATA-IDE bridge adaptor inside a Mac mini G4. Now it does not recognize the optical drive sharing the same Mac's IDE host any more. Obviously the SATA-IDE bridge is not configured to properly support Cable Select to set Device ID1 (slave). In the Mac mini...

Hello, I would like to connect two displays simultaneously to the same Mac mini, using a DVI to DVI + VGA Y-cable. The cable splits the DVI port into a DVI port (digital) and a VGA port (analogue). Actually, I want do this with an early Intel machine, but the same should work with the G4...

Dear comrades, I liberated a nice PowerBook 1400c/166 with a VIEWpowr 1400/16, recently. The battery is dead. Without battery it will boot but the screen stays blank (gray pattern, some random stripes), no mouse arrow or whatsoever visible. The unit can be restarted or shut off properly using...

Is there a speaker (reader) of Japanese language? The website trinityworks might provide several driver software solutions to fully use an Apple mighty mouse on several different host operation systems like Windows XP. Unfortunately I do not understand the Japanese text. Could a comrade with...

Dear comrades, the new page RAM Module Test Results is open for your contribution. While still searching for expansion memory for some of my old Macontosh computers, I find it difficult to decide from just a module number if there are chances to use it inside a given mac. In case of more...

Some success was reported in using a CompactFlash card in combination with a Stratos CF PowerMonster and a PowerBook 180. For an old 32 MB CF card the patched Apple Drive Setup 7.3.5 works well, while several other drivers seemed not to make the drive bootable or even recognised by the...

Inside a PowerBook 180 I found an "Apple PowerBook 14.4 Modem Card" #820-0365-B, ©1993. The card has an 8-pin mini-DIN style connector. The connector looks just like the two other serial port connectors a stock PowerBook 180 sports. Up till now I only knew the usual Western phone line...

As far as I have found, wire connected Fast Ethernet upgrades for the PowerBook 1400 are recommended rarely. Some years ago I have got a cheap 10/100 Fast Ethernet PC card from a PC store, just to see if I could make it work in my PB 1400 (Fiberline FL-FE1600, Fiberline Technology Corp., part...

I just added some suggestions to the Wiki main page, to give an idea what I miss. I would like to contribute some articles, and I would like to have someone skilled to write a few words of advice about the internal structure of the Wiki. How to crosslink all that information to make it easy to...

I have a Performa 630 which recently refuses to remain "off". A few minutes after shutdown the machine starts itself again. A new battery did not change this annoying behaviour. I would be glad to get a hint how to fix this issue.

In case you have a trackball of type 'Microspeed MacTRAC Deluxe' you might miss the appropriate control panel software. The device is operational without specific software, but the control panel allows customised use of the three buttons and setting of two separate tracking speed ranges, to be...

Years ago I had a software to replace the poor original file search capabilities of the Finder (I think "FindPro" was the name). It was invoked just by hitting the usual command-F key combo. The improved pre-Sherlock file search application from Apple works well with 7.1, but usually will not...