Intel/PPC node compatibility

Can one use an intel based system as a node while running Logic on a PPC system? Are there compatibility issues?
Somewhere down the line I'll be needing to step up the power/speed of my setup, and it occured to me that rather than shelling out $2500 for a Mac pro, I could just buy a Mac Mini to run as a node. Seems pretty much ideal, since the Mac Mini is a bare bones system, and I'd only need it for extra muscle. Obviously, a it wouldn't compare to the Mac Pro in speed, but just as a means to take a step up...
Any thoughts?

I run a MacBook Pro,and use an iBook G4 as the node.They work well.
Both have the latest versions LPro 7.2.3 UB,and the newest Node as well.
Cheers

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Subject: Mac compatibility of Areca ARC-1280 24 ports PCI Express to SATA II RAID adapter.
At Areca's Internet site ( www.areca.com.tw) consumers can read at pages concerning arc-1280 card that: « The SATA RAID controllers support broad operating systems including ... MAC ... ».
At Specifications page, under: Operating system, it is written: « Mac OS X (no_bootable) ».
Absolutely no other warning appear about MAC owners.
So, if you are just a basic computer consumer, you are now strongly tempted to believe that if you got a MAC with PCIExpress technology & OS X, you can safely buy arc 1280 PCIE.
This is because (nearly) everyone knows that in real pragmatic actual life OS X exclusively runs on Apple Mac machines. In the case of arc-1280, as it is a PCIExpress adapter, only two Apple Mac models are possible: the very recent MACPro (Intel cpu based) & late 2005 PPC G5 dualcore (IBM cpu based). As Areca mentions nowhere any warning between MACPro & G5 dualcore, only owners of either of those PCIE machines may logically have the opportunity to run OS X with an arc-1280 connected!
If you are a little bit more paranoïd, before to buy such an expensive adapter, you will check if there are other stuffs to confirm your deductions. You then will find Areca's online user's manual 3.2, where it is stated that a bios configuration utility, contained into card's firmware, is « OS independant » & can be accessed at startup by pressing TAB or F6. About « MAC X » driver installation, user is invited to follow a readme.txt (that in fact does not exist nowhere). It is the same for archttp proxy server installation, which is also asserted to support Mac OS.
Moreover, a Mac driver is freely downloadable online, called arcmsr-1.3.1.pkg. Now you are ready to trust!
Having arc-1280 plugged, you start your Mac (happy to hear that card beep after startup) then install driver (the same is present online & on Areca's companion CD). A text appear:
« This driver supports...arc 1280...PCIE... Please note that this is a pre-release version of the driver for testing purpose, and is *NOT * for general distribution. ». But installation completes succesfully and you pay no attention to this frightening sentence hidden into Areca's driver package.
What then arise when you have your computer restarted? Nothing: except the beep at startup, Areca's high end Raid controller simply do not appear anywhere into Mac OS X!
As I cannot afford paying more than 1200 euro for just a startup beep, I decided to require help from distributor & Areca's very enigmatic support. Lastly distributor decided to try with another arc-1280 which was as useless on my Mac than the first one. I again protested, Areca's support seeming to have totally resign for quite a lot of time now, distributor blaming me not to have been carefull enough ?!
Distributor ask me now to re-send back the card. They will try to get their money back from Areca, then maybe will I have my money back ? They asked me to write a letter with a description of the problem & why I want a full refund.
This is now done, hoping this will help to avoid further misinformation.

MacGurus PCIE which are supported.
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I want to use 6 SATA Drives and 1 IDE drive. I don't care about sound and 3D, but I want the graphical user interface to work as well as the USB ports. This motherboard uses an Intel GMA X3000 on-board graphics subsystem.
Will Solaris work on this motherboard.
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I run a MacBook Pro,and use an iBook G4 as the node.They work well.
Both have the latest versions LPro 7.2.3 UB,and the newest Node as well.
Cheers

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Im am new to this forum, so I apologize in advance if this post is in the wrong section.
I am considering to replace the hard drive in my MSI GX660R with a Samsung 840 EVO 250 gb ssd, since it has the best benchmark ratings and are very afordable. My laptop has an Intel motherboard with an i7 core processor.
My question in relation to the upgrade is, whether the laptop is compatible with that excact ssd. I plan to run it in AHCI mode, since I have bad expirience with loss of data under RAID. If i chose to run the extra HDD as a secondary drive, it will therefore still be under AHCI.
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MBP intel -- ppc compatible?

My mbp is a year old, with the magsafe connexion. Can I take the battery out of this machine (10.4.11) and stick it in a mbp ppc (10.4.9) 1.75 yrs old and charge it? I left the magsafe cord at home for the holidays and my sister has a mbp ppc and I want to charge up in that.
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*"Can I take the battery out of this machine (10.4.11) and stick it in a mbp ppc (10.4.9) 1.75 yrs old and charge"*
There is no such thing as an "mpb ppc." Powerbooks were PowerPC based. All MacBook and MacBook Pro's are Intel based. They use different batteries and power adapters.
So unless your sister definitely has a MacBook Pro, and not a PowerBook, you're out of luck.

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Morning
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I did buy this board second hand and is apparently just over 12 months old.
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Thanks for your response.
Gets more and more interesting, purpose of building a computer, to learn more about computers, certainly doing that just not in a way that I had hoped.
Cant even get the board to post without RAM, would have expected a very panicky beeping from the mother board.
However your thoughts on the BIOS and the chip sound fair, when I bought the chip the guy at the shop said I would have to update the BIOS but didn't imagine it to be such a pain. the POST numbers on the board I initially thought were '00'. Have since found there is no such thing and its probably 'D0" (error initializing CPU).
Not sure where to get an older chip from, short of buying one. Buying a chip for a potentially junk board would ad insult to injury.
Have contacted MSI Australia with a very toadying email regarding them updating the BIOS (if that is the problem).
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2007-08-02 13:23:39 -0500 can't add repository (not a directory).
2007-08-02 13:23:39 -0500 couldn't find any valid bundles to archive
2007-08-02 13:23:39 -0500 can't add repository (not a directory).
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..... about a thousand lines like this.....
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Message was edited by: dmccoy26

Looks like I spoke too soon. After making the modification things went fine for a while but then I got
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2007-08-22 09:55:03 -0400 mv: rename /Volumes/Storage/Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP2/Image_4708220938.nbi/NIUReservedSys tem.z.dmg to /Volumes/Storage/Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP2/Image_4708220938.nbi/mnt/System/Ins tallation/Packages/System.dmg: No such file or directory
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cp: /Volumes/Storage/Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP2/Image4708220938.nbi/mnt/machkernel: No such file or directory
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Not sure if it's a related issue, but I was able to make an image of an Intel machine a couple of days ago... haven't applied any updates since. The obvious difference for me is that what I'm trying here is a G5.
/Volumes/Storage/Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP2/Image_4708220938.nbi/NIUReservedSyst em.z.dmg which the first error claimed did not exist, does. Anybody else have any luck using this modification?
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Message was edited by: Sean Murphy3 -- didn't read the log properly first time.

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