Just wanted everyone to know I finally finished building my Mac. Specs: FW 800 MDDG4 1.25 GHZ, Dual Boots into 9.2.2 and 10.5.8, 2 G RAM, 4 250G Hard drives, PCI wireless card, Upgraded PS fans and last but not least an ATI 8500 Radeon. I run all my DOS games on Boxer in os X perfectly and all my old mac games in 9.2.2. Thanks to all for your help. Love my machine. Priceless.
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My Perfect Mac!
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FW 800 MDDs can't natively boot Classic OS 9. I'm sure a lot of people would be curious about how you solved this problem.
I wanted an MDD for a long time and finally had one. To say the least after a while I was losing interest in it, especially the time I bought a Dual 1GHZ QuickSilver, but that doesn't have a dedicated line in slot, one place I give props to the MDD! And the four hard drive bays.
Nice, my MDD is the dual 1.25Ghz model w/2GB RAM (non-FW800). I recently added two extra HDs (making three), which were both 500GB drives. It was pretty unnecessary to do this though. xD An MDD would make a good server if the dual models weren't so power-hungry. I suppose I ought to stick them in my old graphite G4 and download the software that undoes the 128GB limit these things have.
Other than the noise and power hungriness, (or possibly PSU failure) these machines are great.
Other than the noise and power hungriness, (or possibly PSU failure) these machines are great.