Recent content by dalemeyn

Also download macaroni (www.atomicbird.com) and pay the shareware fee. It automatically performs a lot of the "routine" UNIX tasks and permission repairs which keep problems from developing. There's no way to be sure what caused your problem, but resetting nvram and pram when things seem a...

dirtbagg, I had a similar behavior with an Iomega HD with the Prolific FireWire chipset in its controller (part of the HD assembly) - fixed it by giving it to my son-in-law and getting an HD with Oxford chipset. Sometimes it's that simple. Hope so for you. The Prolific FireWire chipset is...

My vote: After you turn the computer on leave the hard drive(s) running until you go to bed. Don't let the computer go to sleep until then, only the display. Computer sleep shuts down the HD also. OWC (Other World Computing) advised me not to be turning the HD on and off during the day. In...

"error on exit" may be bad news about the drive itself, possibly a bad surface area on the disk. Sometimes, if you just mess around with it, if it's a relatively new ATA drive, it will "seal off" bad sectors and recover. Good luck. Dale Meyn.

OK so far, no issues, slow startup, double boot as expected, with combo update. Seems at least as snappy as 10.4.5 so far. Left the external stuff connected to see if that interfered (FW HD, Ethernet Cable modem, USB hub w/printer, Zip drive), no problems. I noticed the only warning in the...

I'm going to install 10.4.6 via combo, on my external HD safety clone AKA "Sandbox", courtesy of SuperDuper!, so if it bombs, my 10.4.5 on the internal HD won't be affected. Kind of nice to have a Sandbox to play in and try out new software and updates. If all goes well, I'll then install it...

OK, looks like I'll have to just leave the iMac on all day, just sleeping the display. Probably wouldn't save much putting all but the HDs to sleep anyway. Dale.

If you mean can you have both hooked up to the phone line at the same time: Yes, you can. Just can't talk on the phone and be connected to the Internet simultaneously, which I guess is what you meant. Maybe a satellite connecton?

OWC and some others say leave the drive spinning, only shut down at night. Mechanical failure is more associated with on/off cycles than any other factor, apparently (except excessive heat- if the fan goes, don't use it at all).

I believe the limit has more to do with computer model, drive enclosure firmware and how the HD is formatted (HFS+, FAT32, etc.) than with the paticular chip. Dale.

Shot in the dark: Have you unplugged the data line and 110VAC to the HD, and plugged them back in? This can work wonders. I had that problem with an Iomega HD which had the troublesome Prolific chipset in the enclosure electronics of the HD. If unplugging and replugging works, it's probably...

Look up the Apple Store (Apple.com), MacMall, Other World Computing (OWC), MicroCenter, etc. It's a few bucks, but not exorbitant. Dale.

Go to the Apple Support site, and type "Reset the SMU or SMC" in the search window. The SMU (System Management Unit) or SMC (System Management Controller), depending on version, controls the fans, sleep, system resets, and a bunch of other things. I had trouble with my fans (iMac G5 iSight...

Hey, ra3ndy, I did all that, and it does OK, the HDs stay on when the display sleeps. But I wanted to let the whole computer sleep without shutting down the HDs. Probably wouldn't save much energy, since the drives are still spinnning, but every little bit helps save on oil imports. There...

I would like to be able to “sleep” my iMac G5 iSight OS10.4.5 without the external FireWire HD spinning down. I have unchecked the “put hard disks to sleep when possible” box in Energy Saver, but the ext. HD spins down anyway, when the iMac goes to sleep. I'm not sure if the internal HD spins...