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If you want FW800, you can readily source a fw800 pci card on eBay. I saw a couple for $20 & is how I got fw800 into my quicksilver. Max thruput is 800mbits. Crushes USB2 at 480 but I suppose you need to have a FW800 device for that to make much sense.

If that adapter doesn't fit in the maxtor case (hopefully it will), I would look at an external hdd case that has a broad I/o choice like USB1/2 & FW 400/800. Something like this mini g-drive would do the trick & is pretty cheap (not my auction/no relation). IIRC they fit a 2.5" formfactor/SSD...

The Texas Instruments TSB43 series is the one to look for.

One thing that really bugs me is that for the life of me I cannot see the print on the chipset. Even with my magnifying glass I cant make it out. In my defense the chipset on this particular adapter is absolutely teeny-tiny. Gettin' old! :D . . . Ok, took the magnifyer off my helping hands and...

To drill down on the green adapters that DO work in some of my powerPC macs. I have three of these green pata/sata adapters marked RXD-629A7-7 that DO work - one in a revb bondi and another in my QS and a third in my win2k Dell Dimensions xps r450. Not going to pull apart the g3 lol but here’s...

For my Powermacs, I look for PCI USB2 cards that have a NEC or TI chipset. I have several usb2 & usb2/fw400 combo cards with VIA chipset that are flaky and inconsistent in OSX. My NEC/TI cards are rock solid. VIA are typically cheaper yes but I dont recommend them in PPC boxes. Common brands...

Very nice repair. That aluminum bent really well around that pipe. It makes me wonder if you could have made a replacement leg outright of the aluminum vs salvaging the plastics.

huh, I thought that was a nose picker. :D 🍺

Evidently I am perpetually 12 years old. 😄 Carry on

Here ya go @phunguss

It doesn’t have to be pretty, it just has to work :)

I found this on ifixit.com about adjusting the leg spring.

A very young SJ. He looks like Mace Windu in a suit :) very well done!

Very true! If you dont have them, you can create custom inserts with a stiff high density foam, some scissors and hot glue. *added photo These are the boxes from the monitors in my office. They, instead of styrofoam, have molded cardboard & HD foam inserts. When shipped, the stand is off and...

Ive received a number of them over the years. All of them shipped in tight/form fitting sections of dense foam in such a way that they did not move. Also, the panel wasnt directly up on the box. The boxes used while not huge, were always big enough to provide open space around the lcd. The foam...

I don't recall those but I must have seen those at one point. Love the transparent colors :)

Ohh tres' fancy. That Vaio is neat! :) Screams early 2000s aesthetic.

This correlates with what I have heard - specifically the startech adapters with red pcbs like THIS one. I have had green ones work before but they are really hit or miss. The majority of them dont work in my macs.

Do you have a spare daughter card to verify the warp is what is causing your problem?

Ahh this just reminded me that AT&T just owned up to a breach that impacted 70+ million current & past customers private data.