[OT] G4 goes West

[Bob Sneidar]

You can run a G4 under 10.5???

Bob


On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Richmond wrote:

> Dear RunRev users,
>  My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped
> functioning. Managed to boot it in Mac OS9 and am now backing up
> all my data onto a Maxell 'Tank' (1.5 TB) before blanking the 4 ATA
> disks and starting from scratch. Most of the partitions won't mount under
> 10.3 / .4 / .5 and disk tools says they are incapable of being repaired; which
> is gae queer as they mount under '9'.
> 
> Gosh; backing up over a USB connexion is glacial . . .   :(
> 
> And here I am writing "love letters" on a Pentium 2 with 32 MB RAM
> running Damn Small Linux!
> 
> The only reason I can think of as to why the machine went wonky is that I
> tried to get the L2 cache working with 10.5: anybody else with ideas in this
> direction?
> 
> So; rest easy; no major burbles will be forthcoming from my direction for
> at least a week.
> 
> sincerely, Richmond.
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