Neil Keller, Phos+four dots and Lunberg02

Thanks for your responses. Sorry for my slow one, but my job
has had me in and out of Houston.

I run Disk Utility weekly using Macaroni, but have created
a new User Account, and up-graded to 10.4.11 Combo. At the
moment all is well. Lungberg02, I will get iFreeMen to check
RAM. My scratch is FireWire. Thanks for info on amount to fill
startup. Am about to purchase a 750GB hard drive.

Thanks again,
Bob

Am about to purchase a 750GB hard drive




You may need to by a PCI card so the computer can read the whole drive if you are getting an internal. In the older Macs they will only see the first 120GB or so.

Buko,

Checked my System Profiler. It tells me that:

1- there is a FAST scsi PCI in SLOT-2, and
2- a pci-bridge in SLOT-4.

Am I set up for an internal hard drive?

Thanks,
Bob

Bob,

If your MDD G4 is the Dual Processor module, you can have four internal hard drives as big as you want.

I have four in my machine.

Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM, Tiger 10.4.11, both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled, FontAgent Pro manages fonts, Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive, at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2. Photoshop 10.0.1.

Ramón,

Don't believe I have a Dual Processor. Can't find anything
under Specifications in the Setup Guide about it being Dual
bootable. It does state that there are 6 bays.
- 2 Optical and 2 hard drive in front, and
- two hard drive bays in the rear.
An illustration shows the rear drives as ATA/100 hard disk drives, and the front as ATA/66 hard disk drives. Have no idea what this means. Can you set me straight.
Still use my analog Nikons: 2 FMs, 1 FA, and 1 F100, and 4x5 &
8x10 view cameras. Also the Darkroom. Taught college photo for 32
years - almost all WET.

Am maxed out at 2GB of RAM, and had disabled Spotlight and
Dashboard. I have an ancient ATI Radeon 9000Pro display card. I
don't think I need your total of GBs, as I use PS 8 just to
work with my 35mm negatives/slides. Do I need to up-grade
the card, and if so, why, and what do you recommend? Lots of ???s.

Thanks,
Bob

bob,

Don't believe I have a Dual Processor. Can't find anything under Specifications
in the Setup Guide about it being Dual bootable.




Don't get confused here. Dual processor means that there are two CPUs that work in tandem to give you approximately twice the processing power of a single processor. To confirm what you have, go to [blue Apple logo] --> About This Mac --> More Info... --> Hardware --> Number Of CPUs:

A second internal hard drive or an external FireWire drive can have a bootable operating system installed, just like your primary internal drive. You can select which drive will be your boot drive.

Neil