I added Noscript, uBlock and in a bit I'll be updating my HOSTS file.what extensions have you added?
I'm planning on doing a similar upgrade to my Quicksilver, swapping out the three spinning rust drives for 1xSSD, 1x500gb sata spinning rust. Did you notice a marked speed improvement with the SSD? My friend said I should see the QS boot up significantly faster, but tbh it boots pretty darn fast already.I had some adapter fun today. I picked up some cheap Orico doo-dads on eBay; a 120gb ssd and a 3.5 adapter along with one of my no-name, MIPRC, red pata/sata adapters. I realized that the way the ata66 port was oriented in my Graphite, the red adapter could live perfectly well stuck directly into the port and not destroy itself when closed up vs using an 80wire ultraATA lead. Anyways, a clone of the old maxtor spinner to the ssd and I have a nice upgrade to my Graphite Tiger box. The adapters are working perfectly together.
I think I will pick up a couple of the 2.5 to 3.5 adapter sleds so I can cleanly reinstall the current ssds into the sleds with the black rubber g5 feet things and Then into their respective tracks. Those sleds were cheap, maybe $6 bucks so why not
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I'm planning on doing a similar upgrade to my Quicksilver, swapping out the three spinning rust drives for 1xSSD, 1x500gb sata spinning rust. Did you notice a marked speed improvement with the SSD? My friend said I should see the QS boot up significantly faster, but tbh it boots
pretty darn fast already.
Up until about a couple years ago I had a G3 B&W with this configuration. I was using it as a file server. When I got the Mac, I also purchased a 2TB Fantom Drives RAID enclosure. This enclosure (which is still active, but connected to another Mac now) has FW400, dual FW800, USB2 and eSATA.Today, I added eSATA to my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth!
I love working inside this machine - such easy access, so nicely laid out. This picture shows the machine after the SATA card is installed, but before the SATA to eSATA adapter is installed. If you look really carefully you may be able to spot at least two of the HDD spinners and possibly the third one (there are three HDDs in the machine) plus one small SSD immediately to the left of the two spinners that are readily visible, already connected via the SATA card:
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The SATA card I used is a completely generic PCI-X SATA card purchased on eBay (the eBay listing for the card explicitly stated Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 support):
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The SATA to eSATA adapter I used was equally generic and also from eBay:
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and the net result, with it all installed, looks like this (disk controller cables unplugged and pushed off to the side to provide better visuals of the SATA and eSATA equipment) :
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The SATA card is the leftmost one in the expansion slot area; the SATA to eSATA adapter is second from right in the same area.
The whole thing works like a champ! I am hosting an internal SSD and two external eSATA ports with this arrangement, with a 500 GB eSATA-interfaced G-Tech Q-Drive connected to one of the two eSATA ports the adapter presents.
I have benchmarked disk transfer speeds with this arrangement, and it is averaging 35 Mbps in a disk-to-disk transfer, where the source is the SSD and the destination is the external eSATA interfaced Q-Drive. I thought this seemed a tad slow (I am used to 120 Mbps transfer rates with eSATA on my G5s) but then I tested transfer speeds between two of the three spinners also in the Sawtooth and it was the same... roughly 35 Mbps. This seems to be the maximum disk transfer speed for this box.
So, mission accomplished!
Oh neat, what is the pata pci card you have installed in your sawtooth? I have a number of them from ata 33 through 100 but none work in osx unfortunately.@Certificate of Excellence, is the multi-colored Apple logo shown as part of the "About this Mac" box part of Suriken? I have never seen a multi-colored logo as part of that dialog before.
@z970 , this would be a really nice add to Sorbet ... love the bold colors!
Alternately, is there something I could edit within Sorbet to make this happen? Thanks!
Oh neat, what is the pata pci card you have installed in your sawtooth? I have a number of them from ata 33 through 100 but none work in osx unfortunately.
The ATM rainbow apple is not part of Shuriken or Sorbet but is very easy to customize & change in Tiger if you are so inclined. I made a video about it a couple years ago.
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Not the Sata card, rather the blue pata connectors. What’s that card?Hi! Thanks for the video!
I purchased the below card from eBay:
Oh wow that is very prettyThanks, @Certificate of Excellence, I applied the instructions in your video, which was for Tiger, to Sorbet Leopard and it worked equally well.
I used a different Apple logo than you did (thanks for including it though!), one that I snagged from a presentation Apple did years ago, where the logo used was on screen long enough to get the Apple cognoscenti quite excited about the possibility of a revised Apple logo. That never happened, but I kept the logo - I liked it - figuring I would use it one day. Today, it appears, is that day!
One reboot later and the "About This Mac" dialog, from Sorbet on my G4 Sawtooth, looks like the below (I absolutely love the addition of color to this otherwise monochromatic dialog box!):
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For those of you who might want it, the original logo file, 700x700, is also attached. I used Photoshop to size reduce it to 88x88 and then overlay it onto the existing Apple logo in the Resources section of the Sorbet loginwindow.app file (Show Package Contents, Contents, Resources, MacOSX.tiff).
The card that provides those blue PATA connectors? I don't know! It was there when I received the machine (it was a donation from a fellow employee who knew of my interest in vintage Macs), and has always worked well. I have never had cause to examine it!
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Happy to confirm that what I read about the rev1 f5d7000s is accurate - I installed the card in my graphite & Tiger found it immediately & connected to my WiFi.Also looking to get a belkin F5D7000 installed and working. It is a v1.233 with the Broadcom chip so I have read these should be seen as native airport. I picked this up years ago in a $5 thrift store grab bag lol. Finally getting around to using it. Anyhow, Another thing to mess with this week sometime.
Follow up to my last post above, running OS X Server 10.5 on my late 2005 Powermac DC G5. I managed to create a network bootable disk image on my 17-inch iMac. I then used that image to simultaneously boot both my 2006 Intel iMacs as diskless network clients off of a PowerPC G5.
OS X Server is an interesting piece of software. It obviously didn't make much sense as a consumer product, but I can see the utility of being able to network boot a lab full "diskless" of iMacs or do centralized management of multiple Macs. I also got the email server running on my Apple Intranet and can send emails between network accounts. Obviously, won't be putting this online, and I'm using a wired LAN with an old Airport as the hub. My Powermac server has been up several days now without any issues. It's a reliable piece of software when used correctly.
Now I'm playing with xgrid to try running some distributed batch jobs across the network.
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Such a neat use of hardware. I’m going to give this a shot.Follow up to my last post above, running OS X Server 10.5 on my late 2005 Powermac DC G5. I managed to create a network bootable disk image on my 17-inch iMac. I then used that image to simultaneously boot both my 2006 Intel iMacs as diskless network clients off of a PowerPC G5.
OS X Server is an interesting piece of software. It obviously didn't make much sense as a consumer product, but I can see the utility of being able to network boot a lab full "diskless" of iMacs or do centralized management of multiple Macs. I also got the email server running on my Apple Intranet and can send emails between network accounts. Obviously, won't be putting this online, and I'm using a wired LAN with an old Airport as the hub. My Powermac server has been up several days now without any issues. It's a reliable piece of software when used correctly.
Now I'm playing with xgrid to try running some distributed batch jobs across the network.
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Mine is 500 GB. I originally bought it in 2008 as a Time Machine backup drive for my 20-inch iMac (in the picture left). Now it just sits on my G5 and contains all my ISO images, Downloaded app installers, and a few movies. My G5 has 2TB and a 500 GB internal disks. The 500 GB disk has Server installed on it. The other 2 TB drive has a normal installation of 10.5 Leopard.Love the G-Tech external drive! Those things were such a beautiful aesthetic match with the Power Mac G5 cases. What capacity is it?
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