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    gsteemso replied to the thread Rare PCI card.
    in the extreme case you could try contacting them, but I've had poor luck trying that with very old items because the people who worked...
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    It really depends on how far out of spec your mains power can get. Power supplies are designed to cope with input that might be...
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    I've been trying to work out what, in principle, would be needed to boot from an HFS+ volume on a 68k machine, which as we all know was...
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    ...Huh. You learn something new every day. Were there any actual hardware differences (as opposed to mere SIMM or hard drive...
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    Wasn't the P in 7.1.2p short for “Performa”? I was under the impression that the only difference was the bundled applications. (7.1...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    true. I didn't know about the other partitions but I agree completely with your assessment.
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    it sounds like his Whole Disc Image includes the partition table. That would cause any system that mounts the drive to ignore the...
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    Well, if you partitioned the daylights out of your BD-R before putting any data on it...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    You're quite correct, there's a driver on there too. I'd somehow forgotten that detail. 3rd party drivers that tried to be more...
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    There's a point at which the limit rises from 2 GiB to 4, and then another point at which it rises from 4 GiB to 2 TiB. (Internally...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    A CD or DVD uses a different partition-map format than a hard drive, and the Mac would not be able to make sense of it unless you wrote...
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    gsteemso replied to the thread DumbDD.
    “dd” for Classic Mac OS sounds like a great idea! This could help with an issue that was mentioned in a thread somewhere here around...
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    I vaguelly recall at least one of the very early CRT monitors used Sync-on-Green. No idea which one(s), though.
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    Indeed, I did not think anyone would do such a thing - hence my confusion.
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    I tried most of those to no effect, as well as some further Open Firmware stuff I found in articles on "mac-classic.com". (The only...
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