OS X Tiger and CPU Upgrades

I have a 400 MHz G4. I primarily use it for FCP 2 and music but have been having problems seeing my Que Fire firewire cdrw. I have thought about a CPU upgrade and want to add a DVD+-RW to copy projects out to DVD's instead of tapes. With the trouble of having to hack a driver in 9.2 to get a DVD unit to work - would it be easier to upgrade to OS X Tiger to get around the DVD issues and get new features but am I only going to have more issues because of the upgraded CPU. The Apple specs say OS X is not compatible with upgrades but the manufacturers of the cpu upgrades say they are. Several of the new OS X DVD units I've looked at require at least 500MHz. (I posted earlier on the OS 9 forum - my old cdrw works on a new FW equipped laptop with Tiger.) I'm trying to get some more life out of my old G4 because I can't afford to buy a new G5. Any suggestions???? Thanks

You will triple the stated clock speed, but in no way
will the machine run 3 times as fast. You'll be lucky
to notice much change at all.
Yes you're right, in real world terms the machine won't be 3 times as fast, as you're still stuck with the same 100MHz system bus and memory etc, but I think that saying you'll be lucky to notice much change at all is a little unfair.
I recently upgraded the processor in one of my Macs and the difference was very noticeable, from reduced boot/rendering/encoding times to greater all round responsiveness.
If you're moving from OS 9 to OS X and you don't upgrade the processor, I expect OS X will feel pretty sluggish in comparison, although like you say more RAM will help.

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Error: Inode 0x804caa865e6e nsubnirs count is 34 - should be 18. Fixed.
The utility completed with all errors 'fixed.' Quit out of Terminal.
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11) Used Software Update on the Xserve to install the 'Xsan 1.3 Update for 10.4' and 'Xsan Admin 1.3 Update'. Restarted.
12) Ran Xsan Admin 1.3 on the Server. Now.. the Server does show in both the Computers list (as the primary controller) and in the Clients list (still not mounted, of course).
13) On Client1, used Software Update to install the 'Xsan 1.3 Update for 10.4' and 'Xsan Admin 1.3 Update' along with a bunch of other misc updates (iCal, iDVD, etc). Restarted.
14) On Client2, used Software Update to install the 'Xsan 1.3 Update for 10.4' and 'Xsan Admin 1.3 Update' along with a bunch of other misc updates (iCal, iDVD, etc). Restarted.
15) So.. now everything is running OS X 10.4.6 Tiger and Xsan 1.3. Xsan Admin 1.3 on the Server shows all three machines as both Controllers and Clients. The Xsan volume is 'running' but not mounted on any of the machines.
16) Used Xsan Admin 1.3 on the Server to 'Stop' the Xsan volume.
17) Launched Terminal on the Server and ran the 'cvfsck' disk utility on the Xsan volume. Here is what I typed into terminal:
sudo cvfsck Napoleon
This time no errors were reported, although terminal did produce a very nice report detailing what was going on as the Xsan volume was checked (thank you Apple!). Quit Terminal.
18) Used Xsan Admin 1.3 on the Server to 'Start' the Xsan volume back up.
19) And now for the big moment... Used Xsan Admin 1.3 on the Server to mount the Xsan volume on Client1. It took a little longer than nomal, but it did mount. I immediately browsed through the volume and copied a large folder to the Client1 desktop. Worked great. Copied the same folder back to the Xsan volume. Worked great. Deleted the folder in both places and emptied Trash. Worked great. I repeated this same mount/copy/delete process with Client2. Everything was working great!!
Now it was time to upgrade the RAID firmware to v1.5:
20) Used Xsan Admin 1.3 to unmount the Xsan volume on both clients. I then 'stopped' the volume and quit out of Xsan Admin.
21) Downloaded the RAID Admin 1.5 update and installed it.
22) Ran RAID Admin 1.5 and connected to my Xserve RAID. Used the menu command 'Update firmware...' to begin the process. It asks you to locate the firmware source file on disk. The entire update process took about 15 min to complete. The RAID restarted after the update. After seeing all green lights on the RAID, I quit RAID Admin 1.5.
23) Launched Xsan Admin 1.3 on the Server to 'Start' the Xsan volume.
24) Used Xsan Admin 1.3 on Server to mount the Xsan volume on both clients. Both mounted just fine.
And now I'm up to date
I know this is a long description, but I wish that I had had someone else's detailed log before I headed into this overly complex upgrade process (Apple... please make this easier going forward!). Hope it helps someone else.
John Christensen
[email protected]
817.690.8385
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) XServe, XServe Raid, Xsan

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