Question re OS 9 driver

I posted here a couple of days ago re DIMM First Aid, which I need to make some RAM I just acquired work in my Sawtooth. Unfortunately, it only runs under OS 9, which I haven't used in ages. So last night I connected an old HD with 3 separate OS 9 partitions on it, and most of my attempts to boot into 9 resulted in freezes, error 41s, nothing loading beyond the desktop picture, etc. All this also worked some bad magic upon my connected FW drive, whose partitions refused to mount for some time after this experience (happy to report that eventually -- to my great relief -- they rose from the dead).
So I have decided to simply install OS 9 on an empty partition on one of my currently attached HDs and proceed from there. The problem is I know I only loaded the OS 9 driver(s?) on one of these disks, and can't remember which one it is. I looked in ASP under extensions, but cannot tell if anything there is the OS 9 driver. Anyone know what I should be looking for, or any other way to tell if the OS 9 driver is loaded (before actually installing OS 9)?
(Also, is anyone aware of any issues re booting into OS 9 from a [320 GB] ext. FW drive?)

I don't think there is another way to have the OS 9 drivers installed. This is an option that you check when you format the drive. Can you obtain another (old) hard drive that you could install and then install OS 9 & DIMM First Aid.
What is the problem with your RAM? DIMM FA is normally used to restore RAM that becomes disabled when you install the OS X required firmware update.
Look at this link: *Testing RAM* @ http://guides.macrumors.com/Testing_RAM
Then download & use Memtest & Ramber, but these run in OS X.
 Cheers, Tom
 Cheers, Tom

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Greetings to all:
Lenovo has recently published another driver for the IDE controller and I wonder how many of you that have a T60, T60p, T61 and T61p have been able to actually install it.
My controller device is:
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Rolando E Creagh, MD. FACS. USA. T61p, 64608WU, Dual Core Centrino 2.6 GHz, T9500, 8GB RAM, Intel TurboMem 4GB (working). HDD 0: 1.0TB 7.4K rpm AF w/ W-7 Ultimate SP1 64b (2nd clean install). HDD 1: 0.5TB 10K rpm w/ W-7 Ultimate SP1 64b (cloned). HDD 2:1TB 7.4K rpm AF w/W-7 SP1 64b (1rst clean install). HDD 3:250GB, Vista-B-SP2 clean install, HDD 4:100GB, XP-SP3, factory install. HDD 5:1.5TB, 5K rpm, AF, DATA. 2504-10U Mini-Dock
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For those who think I can not follow directions.
First, the driver for the Intel IDE device in a T60p is obviously from Intel. But there are two ways to get it fulfilled.
Lenovo publish the Intel drivers with perhaps there own twists, refinements and in the absence of clear contrary information, that they are perhaps more fine tuned to the machine. It uses the following inf files to have them install: iaahci.inf and iastor.inf. They are revised whenever Lenovo fell is necessary and eventually published.
I must assume they are in use if you have a Vista system originally installed by Lenovo and that is why those inf are the ones you find in the updates.
Mi T60p was purchased 2 years ago with XP-Pro, just before the release of Vista, with the understanding of a free upgrade to Vista-B shall be send when finally released. An Indeed they keep their word and send me a Lenovo branded full version of MS Vista-Business, some 4 months latter (not an image). Rather than upgrade XP-Pro and to avoid the time in limbo and work interruption of the Vista less desirable over XP, I did a successful clean install into a new hard drive, followed by a Lenovo system update, which changed many drivers and installed programs, etc. But as you might imagine, the Intel IDE-SATA driver installed is the one provided by MS (v:6.0.6001.1800 of 2006/06/21), (which uses a different installation file mshdc.inf) and, until proven otherwise, I must assume more generic, since it is for any and all machines, following the standard of the hard drive SATA type.
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Designer,
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YoJoLo wrote:
Are all my photos on iPhoto, and my Word for Mac documents backed up so that when I reinstall Yosemite, everything is going to be right where I left it?
If you have taken the backup using the Time machine then there is nothing to worry as all your photos from iPhotos and Word for mac documents are backup safely by your time machine.
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YoJoLo wrote:
Will I lose Word for Mac and have to reinstall it? Isn't Word for Mac a one time use/install and will I have trouble and have to call Microsoft to input my authentication key in again and will they let me?
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YoJoLo wrote:
Also step-by-step detailed instruction on how to reinstall Yosemite would really be appreciated. Thank you!
Here, Yosemite reinstall procedure......
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Sorry I think you may be confused.
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Hi Doug,
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If I get a USB3 drive and need to use it to restore things on my older iMac, which just has USB2, will it generally connect and run with USB2 at a slower speed? Or would I have to get a drive with both USB2 and USB3 ports?
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Are there "hubs" for Thunderbolt like there are for USB? Considering the limited number of ports, I'm wondering the best way to connect 2 external drives. My iMac has 4 USB2 ports on the back, and I connect one drive separate to each of those ports, rather than going through a hub.
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Is Thunderbolt just an Apple thing? Or is it a new standard widely used by peripherals now? I just never heard of it before. Is it faster than USB3?
I'ts an Apple technology (like firewire) and is far from widely used on peripherals. There ARE Thunderbolt drives etc by companies such as LaCie, WD etc but they are still very expensive (3 or 4x the price of an equivalent sized USB drive). For some this was a worthwhile expense since Thunderbolt is many times faster than USB2. But the arrival of USB3 has, in my opinion, changed the landscape. Yes, Thunderbolt is theoretically faster than USB3 (up to twice as fast) but benchmark tests have shown that in real world situations, the speed difference varies from no difference to Thunderbolt being 25 or 30% faster. When you take into account that USB3 drives are more common than Thunderbolt and are only a little more expensive than USB2 drives at present, then it's a "no brainer" as far as I am concerned.
Hope this helps.
Jon

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Hello.
I just installed a second hard drive in my Quad for my media files and before I transfer all my data to it I have a couple questions--
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it doesn't matter which bay you place the drive(s) in. SATA channels are each separate and their is no master/slave relationship (there actually never was, but that's a different story).
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http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
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Tom N.

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Hello to the community people,
I have a device (A) that sends some data to my computer via a firewire port. And there is another device(B) that is connected to another firewire port of the computer. I want to listen device A and send all data received from device A to device B, the same data without any manipulating. Is there any way to do it(Read bytes from firewire and write to another firewire)? If yes, introduce its tutorial documents, please. (Note that I don't want to do video streaming)
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Question about swapping hard drives...

Hi there,
I recently swapped the harddrive out from my old macbook pro 17" (post 2009 model) into a brand new macbook pro 13". I wanted to see if the OS would still run, and it did. My question is, do I have to perform a re-install of the OS or can I just use as-is? And if I do, if I backup via time machine, does that create an exact version of the backed up user account?

As long as each hard drive involved in the swap has a version of OS X installed that is current for the hardware, then the swap should work OK. However, if the new machine requires a later version of OS X or a version with a different build, then the swap will not work properly for the newer machine using the older hard drive.
TM will backup any and all drives included. Everything is backed up except what you specifically add to the TM exclude list. TM DOES NOT create a bootable backup nor permanent storage - files deleted from the source will eventually be deleted from the TM backup drive.

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