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I have an old 40 gig HD in a firewire enclosure that I want to reformat and repartition. OS 9 Drive Setup sees it on the FW bus, and it can be read and written to, but Drive Setup reports that it's not supported for initialization. Is there any workaround for this?

I think that means power on from sleep or some sort of other Energy Star mode. Another common setting is "Power on from LAN." Either way, the motherboard is still hot before it receives input. I presume you want to start from "cold and dark." Which I've never seen on a PC.

Converting to PS/2, probably not. It's a pretty rigid (read: slow and dumb) standard, with no provision to carry a "power on" signal. One of the four pins for ADB is specifically earmarked for that purpose. I keep hearing that PS/2 is at death's door, and yet I still see PCs roll out of...

It's probably the Appearance Manager (Platinum interface) that slows everything down and eats into your memory. I've consistently heard recommendations to not install it when running 7.6.1 on old hardware. Even old PPCs. Although, some 040 owners are content with 8.1. YMMV. Unfortunately, I...

I have actually considered the same thing, and it seems within grasp of a homebrew project. Isn't USB, ADB, AT and PS/2 all 5 volt? The only issue seems to be signal conversion for the USB pinouts, of which there is likely a crapload of documentation out there sufficient to create a working...

AFAIK, that's the way it's been since the beginning. The Finder, QuickDraw and most mission critical applications of the Mac OS were written in 68k assembly, with portions in PASCAL. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

The ROM issue I'm referring to is the fact that the firmware has never been updated and it would only boot OS 8.5 or 8.6. Neither of which I own. I *do* have a good 9.2.2 disc though.

Bear in mind that they had such trouble getting Copland out the door. Thus suggesting that adding too many neato features such as preemptive multitasking and protected memory to the classic OS, while maintaining backwards compatibility, is neither easy nor pretty. I find it hard to believe that...

Alright... thanks to you, now this doesn't seem quite that ridiculous. What about the old ROM issue. Got any magical workaround for that? :)

OTOH, you are correct that 50-pin SCSI cards seem to be pretty damn cheap. And I DO have an external HP scanner that can work either through SCSI or USB 1.1. Hmmmmm. I wonder, if they are Apple Rommed, would they be bootable?

Operator Headgap has the purple Tempo SATA card for $90 shipped. Figure about another $50 for a decent HDD. Then I have to source a copy of OS 8.6 because that's what the ROM requires for me to boot it and update the ROM for OS 9 and X. So basically I'd be out $200 to get this thing up and...

For some reason, the Yikes and Sawtooth G4s can be had cheaper than Rev 2 B&W systems. Are decent Rev 2s rare or something? I would buy one if quoted a good price.

Yeah, the one I found has no HD, but is otherwise intact and has an asking price of $10. Thus, it would be a start, but would require some work to get running. I'm trying to calulate the "value versus pain in the ass ratio." I would like to run 9.2.2 on this beastie, but I also note that the ROM...

I recently found a good deal on a B&W Power Mac. The problem is that it's a Rev A. I know that these had some serious problems with the IDE bus for the hard drive. My question is whether a SATA PCI card can be booted off of, thus bypassing that problem and PATA drives altogether?

Is the a list of Altivec capable applications that run native in Mac OS 9? I know there were a *FEW* SMP-enabled applications like Photoshop. I was considering upgrading from Photoshop 5.5 to 7, but I'd reconsider if it were Altivec. Plus 5.5 is really good enough I'd guess.

So I was running Norton System Info on my iMac G3 and I found out, much to my surprise, that the system benchmarks only slightly less that a G4 at 500 Mhz in terms of CPU and FPU performance. It also slightly beats a 450 Mhz G4 cube. My iMac is running 9.2.2, and the comparison machines were...

MacIRC is super basic, but works okay. ircle is feature rich, and an OS 9 license will carry over to X. So it comes down to whether you're a power chatter or not.

You are presumably referring to having a ridiculously fast System 6 machine. Because I was under the impression most PPCs before the G3 will run System 7 just fine (and do so faster). I suppose it would be neat, but I just don't see anyone investing the time or money to actually do it.

My family had an Intel 430TX chipset sitting under a Pentium 100MHz and four 16MB SIMMs (64MB). It flew like greased lightning, and I was the envy of my peers for several years. While it could only cache 64MB, you have to keep in mind how obscenely expensive RAM was in the early to mid 90s...

255 characters is considered long filename, and has been on PCs since Windows 95 and OS/2. Technically, a Mac should have no trouble with this, but (unfortunately) the *Finder* in Mac OS versions previous to X will only display between 63 and 31 characters depending on version.