MDD's

[Macdrone]

Ok went and picked up the two MDDs. As always the add was not correct. No such thing as a 1.5. So one was a 1.25 single and a 1.0 single. He threw in 2 ADC 17 inch Studio Displays, also came with mice. So it was time to resurrect my 1.25 dual. Took the motherboard/CPU out of the 1.0 because it had the 133 system bus speed. Success 1.25 dual with 2 gigs of ram. Just need to decide what OS I want. So the 1.25 single is a 1 gig of ram, with 80 gig HD. If anyone thinks they need it let me know. I try and help anyone with the need or want as much as I can.

 

[uniserver]

i would do leopard, with dual booting 9.22 that is how my 1.25 Dual MDD is set up.

 

[Macdrone]

I read that the only the first run MDDs could boot 9. Ill try it but the motherboards are both 167 bus, which says shouldn't natively boot 9.

 

[mcdermd]

Those should be the FW800 models then. OS X only.

 

[Unknown_K]

The original run of MDD models had 133 FSB (867mhz model only) and 166 for the others.

The easy way to tell a OS 9 booting MDD from a non booting one is the booting board has a slot for the original airport cards, second revision has airport extreme slot.

 

[Macdrone]

No is 9 boot here. I can run classic but no boot.

 

[gobabushka]

Is the ram DDR or SDRAM? If it's DDR then it's a FW800 and no dice on straight boot into 9.2.2

 

[Macdrone]

Yessir ddr

 

[waynestewart]

There's no such thing as a MDD that doesn't use DDR RAM

 

[Macdrone]

Excuse me pc2700 167 MHz bus versions. These machines will not boot 9.2.

 

[MinerAl]

I have a MDD FW400 single 1.25GHz processor. It was actually the last G4 desktop. Apple sold it as a low end alternative to their new G5s. It does boot into 9.2.2, but only 9.2.2. I had a 9.2.1 install disk from back in the day and it would not boot from it. I downloaded and then neutered the 9.2.2 netboot image from Apple, and it boots to that and 10.2.8, and 10.5.8 on a different partition. Very handy/speedy for talking to my Ether/AppleTalk 68ks.

 

[waynestewart]

Lots of MDDs with the 167 mhz bus will boot OS 9 but not all the 133 mhz bus MDDs will. Basically, if it has built-in FW800 then it won't boot OS 9

I bought a new dual 1 ghz MDD with the 167 mhz bus in 2002 and mostly ran OS9 for lot of apps as most of what I had wouldn't run in OSX and some wouldn't run in Classic.

Excuse me pc2700 167 MHz bus versions. These machines will not boot 9.2.