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iMac G5 SATA hard drive keeps disappearing #
Same symptom, different causes:
- Question mark on boot. Partition/format drive, run hardware tests (passed), install OS X - OK
- After a week or two, question mark returns. Replace SATA cable - OK
- After another week or two, question mark returns. Hard drive has failed (verified on another Mac) - install new hard drive and repeat step 1 - OK
- After yet another week or two, question mark returns. Set jumper on hard drive to limit feature set to SATA revision 1.0 (SATA 1.5 Gbit/s) - OK (over a month and counting)
- Why will only certain SATA data cables work?
- iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade--Jumper settings?
- Mac Drive Upgrades/Compatibility Database
- Seagate's Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Installation Guide, Publication Number: 100390002, Rev. B, January 2006 - Your SATA-equipped motherboard or host adapter may use a chipset that does not support SATA speed autonegotiation or other 3 Gbit feature. Install a jumper as shown in the following illustration to limit the data transfer rate to 1.5 Gbits per second and enhance compatibility with some computers.
- SATA 1.5 Gbit/s and SATA 3 Gbit/s - To prevent interoperability problems that could occur when next generation SATA drives are installed on motherboards with legacy standard SATA 1.5 Gbit/s motherboard host controllers, many manufacturers have made it easy to switch those newer drives to the previous standard's mode. For example, Seagate/Maxtor has added a user-accessible jumper-switch, known as the Force 150, to enable the drive to be switched between 1.5 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s operation.
/mac | Dec 25, 2011
Address Book .abbu & iCal .icbu Archives #are normally created via File > Export. These archives are actually nothing more than folders, disguised as files, containing copies of:
~/Library/Calendars/longstring.calendar/Events ~/Library/Calendars/longstring.calendar/Info.plistin .icbu archives, and
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBookin .abbu archives. Which makes scripting something up to compress, encrypt, and remotely back up your contacts and calendar very simple.
/mac | Nov 27, 2011
Downgrading from Lion to Snow Leopard on the latest Mac hardware #Booting a new MacBook Pro (Late 2011) from a retail 10.6.3 disc resulted in a black screen and a repeating 3 beep pattern. This is due to missing Sandy Bridge drivers. Apple will ship a 10.6.6 disc upon request (despite their scary warning), which I am told includes the necessary drivers and will boot the latest MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Pro, but not the Mac Mini or MacBook Air.
As I could not wait for the disc to arrive, here is the process I followed to downgrade a new MacBook Pro (Late 2011) from Lion to Snow Leopard:
- Install 10.6.3 to Firewire drive connected to white MacBook (13-inch Late 2007)
- Boot white MacBook from Firewire drive with 10.6.3 and update to 10.6.8
- Boot new MacBook Pro from Firewire drive running 10.6.8
- Clone Firewire drive to internal SSD with SuperDuper! (Carbon Copy Cloner is another excellent choice)
- Boot MacBook Pro from SSD - success!
Reportedly, a MacBook Pro 10.6.8 image can boot the latest Mac Mini as well.
Here is an abbreviated version of Apple's Mac OS X versions (builds) for computers showing only the latest models:
| Latest model | Introduced | OS originally included | OS included later |
| iMac (Mid 2011) | May 2011 | 10.6.6 | 10.6.7,10.7 |
| Mac Mini (Mid 2011) | Jul 2011 | 10.7 | |
| Mac Pro (Mid 2010) | Aug 2010 | 10.6.4 | 10.7 |
| MacBook Pro (Late 2011) | Oct 2011 | 10.7.2 | |
| MacBook Air (Mid 2011) | Jul 2011 | 10.7 |
See also Finding your Mac OS X version and build information.
UPDATE 1: Roy Miller explains how to slipstream 10.6.8 into a 10.6.3 image via NetRestore. Note that System Image Utility 10.6.8 is found in Server Admin Tools 10.6.8, not in Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1, as mistakenly mentioned in the "Required resources" section.
UPDATE 2: Found a fixed and formatted version of Roy's instructions, along with a Target Disk Mode method that is much faster than using an external drive.
UPDATE 3: Apparently OS X system drives are largely universal, generally booting any Mac of the same basic generation.
/mac | Nov 24, 2011
Outbound firewall for OS X #TCPBlock v2.10 [837k] Outbound / application firewall. Runs in whitelist or blacklist mode. Support for filtering TCP and UDP.
(via AddictiveTips)See also Little Snitch, Hands Off!, and Radio Silence.
/mac | Oct 31, 2011
Mac OS X P2V #Paragon Virtualization Manager for Mac OS X is a free P2V (physical to virtual) converter that runs under OS X 10.5 or higher. Images can be created for Fusion 3+, Parallels 5+, and VirtualBox 4+. Until Lion, the OS X EULA did not allow for virtualizing non-server editions, hence Paragon's warning/disclaimer: "Please make sure that you do not violate the licensing agreement of your operating system and other installed software by virtualizing your system."
/mac | Oct 24, 2011
Create cruft-free ZIP files in OS X #HardCoreZipper 2.1.3 [465k] Drag-and-drop to create ZIP files free from OS X cruft like dot underscore and Icon\r files.
/mac | Oct 22, 2011
MultiMarkdown Composer #is a tiny text editor built for MultiMarkdown by its creator, Fletcher Penny. Sadly, MMC is only available via the App Store (a FAQ and some screenshots can be found here). Just the same, anyone who writes on a Mac needs to check it out; MMC is the kind of app that simply makes you smile:
(via MacSparky)
/mac | Oct 20, 2011
Newly added to OS X page #Excel to CSV Converter 1.3 [103k] Batch convert XLS & XLSX files to CSV (requires Excel)
/mac | Oct 12, 2011
Some Lion love #While its basic flaws keep me from using Lion full-time, 10.7 introduces some neat new features like:
- Using the FaceTime camera to add signatures to PDFs in Preview
- All window edges allow resizing
- Quicklook previews within spotlight search results
- Finder merging of folders and files
Here is Kyoko reading the following passage:
「原材料の全てが特殊な人造毛で作られています。その為、動物の毛に比べ耐久性に優れ、毛抜けや毛切れもなく、しかも弾力があり、先端も鋭いため、ハネ、ハライ等、文字の基本の勉強に最適です。また、人造毛でありながら、墨含みを良くする為の工夫もなされ、初級入門者が安心して使っていただけます。動物の毛を使わない自然環境に優しい筆として特に注目されています。」(brush shown in photo is for a different item)While her English could use some brushing up, Kyoko's Japanese is surprisingly natural for a text to speech engine (students should still be wary of mistakes like hito miyatsuko instead of jinzou, etc).
To setup a "Start Speaking" keyboard shortcut: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts > + > enter "Start Speaking" for Menu Title (without quotes) > Tab to the Keyboard Shortcut text box and press desired shortut keys.
The popup dictionary (accessed via Cmd+Ctrl+D) now displays much more information (most importantly, the reading in hiragana):
| Snow Leopard | Lion |
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Serious students of Japanese may want to overlook Lion's other shortcomings, as it offers the most complete and comprehensive computer environment for learning the language. (Don't forget
/mac | Sep 10, 2011
Why, in my day... #Cathode ($20) is a vintage terminal emulator for Mac OS X that allows you to tweak curvature, color, transparency, bit-rate, noise, jitter, interlace, horizontal scan rate, and more.
/mac | Aug 29, 2011
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