Sweet! I have a 400 MHz B&W G3 in nice shape that I used to use for old games. It’s been in storage for the last 7 years after moving. I want to find a new home for it because I don’t have enough space to use it, but I also want to make sure it ends up in a good home without having to risk damaging it in shipping.
The 'red' adapters were originally sold by one company (in Germany I believe) that licensed other manufacturers. So essentially, any of these you find are going to be the same - just sold by different manufacturers.
Good to know. 👍
I bought a "green" JMicron M.2 SATA to IDE adapter and the adapter itself worked fine, just not in my 2003 Powerbook. I could install an OS but the longer I used it (we're talking less than an hour) the slower it got. Finally, the system would only boot after a few hours of waiting. If I reformatted the drive, then it was fast again for another hour or so. I still have that adapter and the SSD I put in it and they both work great in other machines, just not in the Macs I've tested them in for some reason. My "red" Marvell works perfectly in my Powerbook. It's just getting difficult to find good mSATA drives. In both cases the SSD was the only hard drive in the computer.Delock and Startech are products by the same Taiwanese company, just different trade names in different regions.
Red adapters work better in master/slave configurations with other drives, but otherwise the green ones work fine too.
Btw, I bought well over 20 of various green ATA adapters (mSATA, M.2, SATA) and none of them were defective, so, I don't know where the 50% failure rate number comes from.
If you wanna see real world red vs. green adapter speed tests, head over to MacOS9Lives, there are several threads about them.
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The one I used is from a German brand named Intenso. I'm not sure if the problem was because of a conflict between the adapter and computer, the adapter and SSD, or computer and SSD, because everything works alright with other hardware. I put the SSD in another enclosure for an Intel Mac using SATA and it works great.That's strange. I never had any problems with M.2 drives and JMicron adapters. But, I have to admit, I only used brand name OEM drives (used), not any recent offerings from Far East.
Ok, I also encountered one bad batch by Samsung, but that was the only case.
Warning! Samsung PM881 M.2 SATA 128GB bad batch floating around
I thought I'll post this info, especially for our German users and those, who are looking for M.2 drives to upgrade their older G3/G4 Power Macs. There was a large number (>50) of these drives sold on German fleebay recently at a very attractive price. I bought four :oops: It turns out, that...
What drive were you using?
Am I looking at NT PowerPC running on an iBook here?So I decided to install on real hardware to determine if some odd issues were qemu emulation inaccuracies or not. Turned out to reproduce on real hardware, but I got this photo
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So I decided to install on real hardware to determine if some odd issues were qemu emulation inaccuracies or not. Turned out to reproduce on real hardware, but I got this photo
I keep meaning to write a guest blog post on virtuallyfun to explain various parts, then get sidetracked debugging one issue or another (as you can expect it doesn't run 100% correctly yet). I'll probably end up doing it when I finally get everything to a releasable state, haha. What that releasable state will be in terms of drivers, I don't know (currently only the bare minimum is implemented, which means PIC/PMU in the HAL, porting atapi.sys using the DDK sources to support the Mac I/O ATA controllers, and only ADB keyboard driver for now, no ADB mouse or USB anything yet).Please split this off into its own thread!
I have always thought this to be fundamentally impossible because of endianness and also CHRP vs Apple architecture or whatever. I would love to know all the gorey details.
Panther was never flashy like Tiger was, but aside from a few later versions it is one of my favorites simply because it was stable and consistent. When I worked for a newspaper, I got a lot of jobs out on that OS. It even functioned when damaged. In the first year of having a G5 (which came with Panther) a ram stick died. Because there was disk access at the time I guess, the ram stick going out damaged the filesystem 'B' tree. The 'B' tree is the backup to the 'A' tree and both trees tell the OS what files are where. It wasn't until a few weeks later that I could wipe the drive. reinstall apps and move on. But in the meantime, Panther handled everything just fine. I guess it amazed me so much that I am still mentioning it to this day.
I have a few imacg4s and they all kind of sit around staring back at me like cats on a shelf - as an homage to that gen of Mac just like my g3s do for their generation. My home office is salt and peppered with old macs LOL but remind me of trips to Compusa and other tech retailers of the era where I’d see their displays & wishing I could afford one. The allure was palpable - specifically the Titanium PB … oh boy the first time I saw one of those and I was in love.
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