LaPorta
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After years and years, I finally was able to put together my dream setup from the turn of the millennium: G4 tower plus 17" Studio Display. I've had the tower for a good 10 years or so, but the display I recently got, compliments of @Torbar. One funny thing about the Studio Display: in OS 9, it won't display 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768 properly. It appears that the thing is out of sync. This is an Apple-standard card, running through the DVD to ADC adapter. in OS X it works just fine. I used SwitchRes 2 to find a mode of each resolution that actually did work...but I couldn't figure out what the difference was that made it work since both the built-in and custom ones appeared to have the same refresh rate. Any one else have a problem like this before?
I also got about over a year ago a G4 Server tower for free in non-working condition. Today, I was able to fire it up. All that appeared to be wrong is that it has what looks like a 105MB SyQuest drive in it, and the thing erroneously reads as an unreadable disk to OS X, and causes freezes intermittently. Detaching it from the IDE bus solved the problem. Not sure what is up with it, but I have no need of SyQuests....so if someone wanted it I'd happily sell or trade. It also has the Ultra SCSI card in it. Not sure what to do with that, or if "regular" SCSI equipment would attach to it.
A few questions regarding the server: any chance I could take out the SyQuest and just lug the hole with a generic panel? Any one have one they could spare? How about replacing that with another DVD drive and another factory-standard DVD drive panel?
I also got about over a year ago a G4 Server tower for free in non-working condition. Today, I was able to fire it up. All that appeared to be wrong is that it has what looks like a 105MB SyQuest drive in it, and the thing erroneously reads as an unreadable disk to OS X, and causes freezes intermittently. Detaching it from the IDE bus solved the problem. Not sure what is up with it, but I have no need of SyQuests....so if someone wanted it I'd happily sell or trade. It also has the Ultra SCSI card in it. Not sure what to do with that, or if "regular" SCSI equipment would attach to it.
A few questions regarding the server: any chance I could take out the SyQuest and just lug the hole with a generic panel? Any one have one they could spare? How about replacing that with another DVD drive and another factory-standard DVD drive panel?