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Jjoevt replied to the thread PowerBook power adapter compatibility?.Yes you can use them. I meant to say you can't trust them. Usually the current rating is a minimum that the adapter can supply without...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread PowerBook power adapter compatibility?.You're saying that Apple put current limiting features in the power adapter instead of inside the Mac. You can't use third party power...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Slot-loading iMac G3 dual PCI breakout development.What version of Open Firmware does your iMac have? Output from dump-device-tree might be useful...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread PowerBook power adapter compatibility?.I don't think there's such a thing as a current rating that is too high? Voltage is controlled by the AC adapter. Current is controlled...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Shopping for Power Macintosh 7300 ram.Service Source for the 7300 says the DIMMs must be 5V and that fast paged DIMMs also work...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Beige PowerPC G3 - IDE HardDrive Replacment?.They all have different version numbers and therefore different 3 MiB checksums and different 4 MiB checksums. They all have different...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Reconnaissance: Modern Diagnostics for your Classic Mac.I had some more Serial Test Manager notes at https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/new-diagnostic-tool.4593/post-39652
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Beige PowerPC G3 - IDE HardDrive Replacment?.Does that apply to all 4 revisions of the Beige G3 firmware? Does that apply to Mac OS 9 as well? I've seen Mac OS 9 is able to see...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Imaging a Bootable Mac OS 9 CD the Hard Way.Was this image 2352/2048 times bigger than the partition created from disk2s1? If so, then it does contain all of the partitions. It's...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Imaging a Bootable Mac OS 9 CD the Hard Way.A CD has multiple "slices": diskutil list /dev/disk18 /dev/disk18 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread USB-Serial Adapter and Cable Options.My serial cable notes at #10
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Reconnaissance: Modern Diagnostics for your Classic Mac.Old World Power Macs have a Serial Test Manager (STM) On a Power Mac G3, it has a menu and prompt like this: >...
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Jjoevt replied to the thread Apple Network Server 700 boot issue.The default boot-device is disk2:aix disk2 is a devalias for /bandit/53c825@11/sd@2,0 The default diag-device is cd fd:diags which I...