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1. mm CPPCC mmm Be soos ZELE LE I ES EEE 2 LEL E z into the 4 holes in the receptical I suspect that the first few times I put the 100 Mhz oscillator in it may have been loose and just sitting in the socket holes I removed the oscillator bent the little legs and splayed them out a bit and stuck the 100 Mhz oscillator back into the receptacle If you try this upgrade make sure that you bend these pins a little bit to improve contact so that they grip the holes they fit into Adding a fan will also improve the stability of the new setup I just happened to have a little silent fan like the ones that fit into external Se ee ee After hard drive cases with a Y connection cable I powered it from the hard drive and secured it to blow across the heatsink attached to the processor I don t know if the added cooling or the bent wires on the oscillator did the trick but the utilities I ran all confirm that the 40 Mhz Macintosh Ifx is now running at a solid and consistent 50 Mhz considerably faster by 25 than the 40 Mhz that Apple set it to run at To check and double check the results I ran a bunch of different Mac utilities like Apple Personal Diagnostics Norton s Utilities
2. 05 SCSI filit D av 0 av a av DOUBLE CL From the Editor A few weeks ago I overheard a Mac user com plaining bitterly about the high cost of upgrading his hardware to meet the demands of modern computing Well let me just say this about that personally I consider the cost of computing to be incredibly cheap When I dig out the old MacUser and Macworld mag azines at bedtime I see ads for RAM at 39 00 U S per Meg and 8 Megabyte 33 Mhz sys tems selling for 4 to 10 thousand American dollars without enough power to pull a sick toddler off a pee pot How can anyone com plain about the minuscule cost of a new 400 Mhz Mac CPU that ships with 128 Megs of RAM a 6 or 10 Gig Hard Drive and enough computing power to run a small maritime nation like Portugal or Spain The point is that thrifty Mac users can amp do continually hunt for bargains because Mac systems from a few years ago are still very usable far beyond the abilities of similarly aged 386 486 and 586 systems With these older Macs in mind and in recogni tion of the reluctance of Mac users in general to buy what can be had for free I have put together an issue about some very nice FREE utilities for working with the SCSI hard drives that these older Macs can thrive on For the adventuresome I have also included an account of my experience with a cheap amp cheerful hardware upgrade that anyon
3. If you have any opinions experiences rants reviews of hardware or software products you have used or information you would like to share with other MaUsE Club members please feel free to make a submission either to Michael shaw on the Source FCC BBS or via email to me at mikeshaw idirect com Text portions submitted in Simple Text and graphics in PICT or JPEG format will simplify editing on my end Dont be shy There s lots of room in the upcoming Issues for your article september MaUsE Meeting 5 TOWN OF WHITBY hy 2 Dundas Straat Brock Sireet Migs In Lecture Theatre Heny Street High Schoo Entrance al Aar Will be held in the Lecture Room at the Henry Street High School at 7 30 P M on September 27th Park at the rear of the School in the West Lot enter the building through the West Entrance and follow the signs Possible Meeting highlights will be Jim amp Bruce s recent excellent MacWorld adventure a possible demo of OSX on Jim s iMac and a silent auction of an older complete Mac system See you there
4. PowerBook 540 38 MHz PowerBook 3400 180 225 MHz PowerBook 3400 200 225 MHz PowerMac G3 233 and 266 300 MHz The Mac that I decided to try this out on was an already wickedly fast 40 Mhz Mac IIfx According to a technical page on the OE web site the Do It Yourself kit for the IIfx will raise its processor speed from 40 Mhz up to a pos sible 50 Mhz A quick search on click chipping took me to a site where a survey of successful clock chipped Mac owners submitted their results for each Mac model a site which yield ed the information in the chart below 1 1 SEBIR Unfortunately the output Enablers IIfx kit is one of the few that requires that the stock oscillator on the logic board be unsoldered and completely removed in order to have a replacement soldered in The OE website also informs me that a heatsink may be required to keep the operating temperature of the faster running 68030 processor down The kit comes with two oscillators as advertised and costs the amazingly low low price of 15 00 American Postage and handling of the kit is another 5 00 which brings the total bill to 20 00 U S I can see why these guys claim one of the best price performance ratios in the accelerator market I emailed them using the order form provided on their website filling all the required fields and the next day ep 8 83 EF 5 rope ie anc Wie ent LE pe TE Most of their kits are based around th
5. pages of instructions again or go back onto the internet and read the Frequently Asked Apple Pers System info Basic Info lell Macintosh IIf After Machine ID 12 Processor 69030 at about MHz Coprocessor 53332 Memory Installed 32 Mb 32768 Kb and working with a document in Quark and also copying files to the hard drive from a QuickTake 100 Digital Camera while running the Apple QuickTake program The operations all progressed normally enough and the new improved Mac IIfx seems to be dead stable and feels faster at all tasks Startup seems especially quick with all the little icons whizzing onto the screen Since the restart after the last Chimes of Death when I fiddled with the oscillator legs amp installed the fan the Mac IIfx has been on best behaviour and has not crashed or frozen up even once I have kept it on for days on end without any adverse symptoms The successful connection of the QuickTake camera to the Printer port was a hurdle that I was happy to pass The literature that accom panies the oscillators indicates that the Serial Ports have proven to be a limiting factor in clock chipping several of the 68040 Macs and I hoped that it would not be a problem for the 68030 Mac IIfx as well Time will tell how beneficial this upgrade was but from this initial experience with Output Enablers 15 00 Mac IIfx accelerator it cer tainly appears
6. E E s i pr z IT sag i mig a ia E E E ma g u im m 1 a e ppe ar sims e 1 Foa e 3 a F mi ley 1 re tel Re Hes 2 a rie x 1 pa F a T a F 1 a a i There are a lot of other features in Lido 7 like the options under the Tests and Special menus that I haven t even mentioned that an advanced SCSI user could appreciate but I suspect that if a Mac user needs more than Lido 7 has to offer then the commercial programs must be used For the rest of us Lido 7 Meen will suffice I know that for many of us SCSI utilities are something we seldom or never use but if you must work with SCSI devices or you intend to upgrade your SCSI drive it helps to have a few tools like Lido 7 to walk you through basic formatting partitioning fais and initialising The interface is rsh ee onl ee logical and the program pro oe M ceeds step by step so that you anan ie don t need to know the pur ves ers F F i a E i Pa Pr in eri i pose or the effect of formatting Ea and initialising 5 1 Mari Frat E ET Th no es eet 3 s s ean 1 a at S a EF mal 5 PAN i a 1 3 0 m PMount The other little application which comes with Lido 7 is PMount a SCSI utility that scans your SCS
7. Root Free Extra Drive Partition Map After exiting from this dialog boa wisit the Passwords Mount dialog Some partitions are Unttounted during certain Partitioning operations movement before committing to it After the below I will elect to initialise as 2 equal Mac FIREMEN Drive is Formatted it appears on volumes Each step along the way there are eae the Desktop and you can click on changes being made to the drive that require Net 40 a Custom Partitioning in the the destruction of all data on it This drive is PREM main panel to get the window blank but if it had any files worth keeping hoe and then Shortcuts to get the window they would have to be removed Initialization Shortcuts ac O Initialize entire drive for Mac 045 1 volume cA Initialize entire drive as 2 equal Mac 0 volumes w Initialize entire drive as 4 equal Mac 0 volumes C3 Initialize entire drive as 6 equal Mac 35 volumes ASU Co Initialize entire drive as an AUX System drive reg gt 76m i Initialize entire drive as an A UX Data drive initiale drive as 1 4 Mac 05 3 4 AUR System jireg gt 100m Initialize drive as 1 2 Mac 05 FAAS UA S stemitreg gt 4 fin cancer Click on icon It will be fistalled only if EEA Meh een pd Tas TRS a EST LER oP ica if If I click OK after making my choice in the 75 General Help Tools Help Initialisation Shortcuts I will be asked to select an Wa ico
8. SCSI tool in your future LaCie s SilverLining FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and others are avail able for those of us with serious SCSI concerns m Probe Options Install Volume Mounting Init Mount Key Ll Close Driver After Ejecting Ll Mount Yolumes During Startup Mot installed Reboot to install Desktop and control how and when external hard drives and other SCSI devices are mounted The new version from Adaptec has an updated appearance and a few added fea tures like the ability to cue external devices to flicked on command If you have a lot of sim ilar SCSI devices this helps you identify them without getting behind them all to check their SCSI addresses If you have no other SCSI Utilities you must at least have SCSIProbe to tell you what is connected to your Mac who made it and where it is its SCSI address This will help ensure that each SCSI device has its own unique identity recognised Cancel N CSAP robie TLL 2 reCsl Buses 1 Apple Computer NCR 53c96 Logical Units I Yerdor ra FA a 9 A WES SSS SCSIProbe SCSIProbe 4 3 Or Type Vendor Product Version SEAGATE ST41600N 0090 0514 fi eae EROS TOT co EE EIEN OR Cee DEERE OF PRR TENES n r er e ratane o al ERE IE APPLE GU ADR A 950 50251200 4 3 Here s the most common SCSI util ity of them all T
9. to my Macintosh 111 which has no microphone port From the quality names printed on it Farallon and the software with it Macromedia I figured it to be a good deal at the price which was practically free I paid postage from Seattle to a Mac user out there who had no need of it Serial Switch Serial port setting CH Faster 22 Compatible some applications that use the printer or modem ports da not operate properly unless the serial ports are setto Compatible MacRecorder dominated its classification The MacRecorder functions as a microphone but it has two input ports of its own marked Microphone and Line I have no idea What these ports are for since the MacRecorder works just fine with nothing In another issue of MacWorld I found an arti cle in which readers rated the fifty top hard wares and softwares of the year for 1991 Under the heading of DIGITAL AUDIO the Farallon MacRecorder was given the nod by 64 of the respondees which made it the most highly approved of hardware device in the survey All the other categories printers modems monitors video cards and other devices shared votes fairly evenly but the else plugged into it and sound files created with it connected to the Mac IIfx defaulted to crystal clear 8 bit stereo at 22 254 kilohertz Submissions to the Double Click MaUsE Club members are more than welcome to submit original articles about any Mac relat ed topic
10. z 1 r 1 k L H 23 ba F LFF 1 J u r 5 a r r a L 1 Pi 3 il 1 5 san a 1 ee Ee lac Yolurme 5 2 aie 0 rr oll te 1 i ee ne a pee a i Por 5 3 BricroNet 2061 G e _ I s i 5 L Bi T m 0 nE aie a a a 3 z oa Lee 1 ay partition has its own icon and can be used just like a separate internal SCSI hard drive The programs in this issue will show f you how to do this 0 a ae i i 8 Er 1 F rh P Pag a Be f Bn a im cet pi 1 1 5 e I a a De T 1 T Pi mal b pa F i Ps ng oe TE s m 8 hi se Tr ot 1 u we i m 0 B ra ool ra ia e aT Lia er a cme l in Uen 3 ona Ek cent is lost in this procedure Initialisation is SaM ea essai part of the formatting action The new disk rible mistake and wipe out information acci dentally Only use hard drive utilities on drives that you know contain no important data The usual procedures that you will execute with a SCSI utility are formatting initialising partitioning and mapping out bad sectors We will look at each of these procedures and define what it does to the hard drive and when it is required Formatting Initialising Formatting is required when the drive you have acquired has been used in a non Macintosh environment Everybody knows how to re for
11. Clockometer and Snooper to see if they all would even run at the new speed and all pick up on the changes They all did The Apple Clockometer_ NEWER TECHNOLOGY GAUGE SERIES Processor Motorola 68030 o Running at approximately 50 60 MHz System Inra Basic Info Macintosh 14 Before Machine ID 12 Processor 62030 at 40 MHz Coprocessor Memory Installed 32 Mb 32765 Kb by the gone oscillator and re touching the sol der with the soldering gun I stripped the plastic cover off the bottom of the heatsink and stuck it to the processor The heatsink is included with the kit and fits perfectly on top Socket amp 3 pruned n i Oscillator the i e StUC an oscillator into the recep tical and re assembled the Mac Ilfx The first oscillator I tried was the low speed 92 94 Mhz job and I got no 1 video and the Chimes of Death Son of a bitch to coin a phrase This was not what I had in mind Luckily the placement of the little receptical right beside the IIfx ROM SIMM makes removal of the oscillator and replace ment very easy Less than a minute The next oscillator I tried was the 100 Mhz job and the Ilfx fired up nicely and then froze after a few minutes with a Finder Error Hmmmm I shut it off and restarted it Blank screen and Chimes of Death again Hmmmm I wonder if I can get another IIfx motherboard off eBay or maybe I should read the three
12. I bus on Startup and lets you set special con ditions for each SCSI device When you first launch PMount you are presented with a double window with a list of all your SCSI devices and a list of possible operations From the double window you can set preferences for each of your SCSI devices individually You can write protect your disks mount and unmount them set a Password for each SCSI device or set one of them to be your Boot Disk Partitioning was successful Would you like to initialize your Mac volume now or make custom modifications TERE 05S I selected Two 50 Mac Setup from the Partitions menu and Lido 7 created two parti tions of about 20 Megs each from the 40 Meg drive As the resultant dialog suggests its time to initialise the drive When I click Initialise I am presented with a bunch of hard disk icons below so that I can decide what the new drive will look like on the Desktop When I select an icon and click OK the program proceeds to initialise the drive and install new drivers When this operation is complete in about 15 seconds for this drive the two icons for the two partitions appear on the Desktop among the other drive icons and the two empty drives are available for use A larger drive may take considerably more time for some or all of these operations select An Icon For Your Hard Disk Microhet 201 40 ME ID 6 identify mystery NuBus cards Besides that it is an excellen
13. Mac which has no Microphone port install the MacRecorder Driver which is just a System Extension and restart For the IIfx and some Quadras there is a Serial Switch control panel that must be installed and configured as well to ensure compatibility with the software It de tunes the Serial Ports to a broader spectrum of acceptance After restarting the Mac you can open the Sounds control panel and check to see if there is a image of the MacRecorder in it when the Sound In is selected I could find no useful information about this device on the internet and even the members Sound of the Quadlist were sketchy about how it works and what it does beyond simply acting as a Serial microphone I had better luck in my own library where I found an old MacWorld magazine from ten years ago that had an ad for the 159 Farallon MacRecorder described as a sound digitizer and bundled with SoundEdit the Far early version of semar what later became uithe Macromedia Sound Edit 16 Bk wi ae a ic MacRecorder The MacRecorder is an inter ran esting piece of antique Mac hardware that was popular lackecordere Diver before all Macs came with a microphone port for audio in The problem with Macs like that is that in order to get sounds into them you have to copy them onto disks and install from floppies or use some other port for the sound input I picked this MacRecorder up to connect
14. X 905 576 5527 Hm 905 683 3214 Ajax Double Click Editor Michael Shaw Printing amp Distribution Doug Kettle Cover Design Sean Murphy that we run on them under various System 7 and OS8 X can benefit greatly from the speed boost and extra room realised when we put in a relatively modern bigger drive Some of my favourite Mac models originally shipped with one measly 80 160 or 230 Megabyte SCSI Apple hard drive but they have all been upgraded since to at least 500 3 Megs My Quadra 840AV has internal 5 0 J bays in it for two SCSI drives and my TTT Quadra 950 can accept up to five SCSI and movie clips manipulated and E TT saved as documents even 30 Gigs will E ee drives inside and more on the exter nal SCSI bus I An unfortunate repercussion of TS upgrading the hard drive with a sec sions of Apple s Hard Drive Setup m program will not work on many Mac n ae models if the hard drive is not an fae original Mac hard drive so you may feet need to resort to a third party pro aes gram to set up your new SCSI drive A There are many excellent commercial tea hard drive utility programs like FWB eed Disk Toolkit and SilverLining that will enable you to partition erase initialise or reformat your non Apple SCSI drives to work with your Mac but there are actually a couple of FREE utilities that will do the trick cheaply and effectively All of these utilities are available as free downloads from somewhere on
15. ap which will let Click on a Yolume to get its information PPC Q930 Macintosh Mac US 8 1 oes Device 310 MB Hard Disk D Yolume s SCSI 4 Device CD ROM Device Yolume s CD ROM Device aoe Device 121 MB Hard Disk D Se Yolume s SCSI F2 Dewice Scanner Device Yolume s Scanner Device mm Device 1207 ME Hard Disk A TYolume s 2 MacOS When you launch the Lido 7 application you will get a window listing all your SCSI devices and their addresses SCSI scanners CD ROM drives external SCSI drives and SCSI removable like Zip SyQuest and others will all show up Before you can do anything to them with Lido 7 you must select a SCSI device with a single click All potentially per mitted operations will be greyed out until this Yolume Information 3 19 63720 10752 14800 First Block Of Yol Bit Map First Block In Bit Map F of Allocation Blocks Allocation Block Size Of Free Allocation Blocks File Information of Files on Yolume Of Folders on Yolume 0 50 YOLUME USAGE MAF Black Blue areas represent allocation blocks which are currently being used White areas represent unused allocation blocks Any gray area represents Unused space in the Yolume s Bit Map Magnification factor rn SE SE you see the SCSI drive as allocation your drive is and how badly fragmented the blocks This feature will show you how full files are 3 the me
16. ase will use components that are rated at the same frequency or faster than the final computer will be In this case the 68030 s are made by Motorola All 68030 s are generally alike in What they do but they are not alike in how fast they can do it Motorola sells several 68030 processors rated at 16 20 25 33 40 and 50MHz for Mac s accelerators and such A large frequency difference will require a dif ferent mask during production of the proces sor but small changes may not Motorola only needs to guarantee that the chip they mark as 20MHz will function properly at 20MHz under a variety of conditions Some chip ven dors will test parts at different frequencies and sort the chips accordingly while others may just label the them at will and sell the chips at the different price as long as they are within the specifications Because of this it is reasonable that the 20 and 25 s actually come from the same batch are separated on demand and tested to make sure they will withstand that ER 5 B i C frequency And thus it is ENAR LER reasonable that a 20MHz oe well com processor will function 5 fine at a higher frequen CWA 1678 Shattuck Ave Suite 247 Berkeley CA 94709 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 43 Quadra 800 PPC 76 MHz Centris 650 PPC mod 76 MHz PowerMac 6100 66 82 MHz PowerMac 6100 66 DOS 80 MHz PowerMac 7100 66 82 MHz PowerMac 8100 100 123 MHz Radius 81 100 125 MHz PowerBook 520 38 MHz
17. e RocketSocket pictured above which is a device that fits snugly over the oscillator on the motherboard and accepts a new higher speed oscillator in a socket on top of the device Complete installation instructions are included with each kit and they provide additional technical support via e mail Frequencies are sometimes changed to increase speed or stability Below is a table of products and per formance Pick out your own Mac and see what kind of a speed boost you can Mac lf expect from an OE kit Macintosh model Speed with kit IIsi 27 5 MHz IIfx 50 MHz Centris 610 28 6 Mhz Centris 650 29 5 MHz Centris 660 AV 34 MHz Centris 650 mod 40 MHz Quadra 610 30 MHz Quadra 650 44 MHz Quadra 660AV 34 MHz Quadra 700 35 MHz Quadra 800 42 MHz Quadra 840AV 48 MHz Quadra 900 35 MHz Quadra 950 45 MHz Quadra 650 PPC 76 MHz had little or nothing to do with the IIfx Knowing that I was OG Memory Compare the speed of gour computer with a Math Integer looking for a 80 Mhz thingy removed the top cover the drive shelf with floppy amp hard drive attached and disconnected the logic board from the power supply and speaker It honestly took less than ten minutes to totally strip down the Mac IIfx and find the 80 Mhz oscillator on it Another 15 or 20 minutes of farting around with the soldering gun and a bit of copper wick to suck the solder out of the connections and the original oscillator popped
18. e can perform it ain t rocket surgery For any MaUsE members with a keyboard and a complete command of the alphabet I have a special notice on the bottom half of Page 23 Contents Free SCSI Tools Page 3 Lido 7 Page 4 Micronet Utilities Page 8 Hard drive Setup Page 12 APS Utilities Page 14 Output Enablers Page 16 MacRecorder Page 21 Meeting News Page 24 Executive Contact List Please feel free to contact any of the following individuals if you have comments or questions relating to Macintosh Users East or Macintosh computing in general Phone Hm 905 983 9205 Orono Email bcameron lis2000 net Bus 905 683 4760 Ajax Hm 905 683 4320 Hm 905 430 8234 Email fenton idirect com Hm 905 432 0921 Courtice Email jfoster435 home com Hm 905 683 3214 Ajax Hm 905 432 0921 Courtice Email jfoster435 home com 905 404 9874 56k 705 887 2508 Fenelon Falls Email cgreaves i zoom net Hm 905 885 8718 905 433 0777 Position Name Mac Evangelist Bruce Cameron Past President Hugh Amos Meeting Coordinators Mark Fenton Jim Foster Treasurer Membership Chairman Doug Kettle BBS Administrator Jim Foster MaUsE BBS The Source Courtice Special Events Chris Greaves Executive at Large John Field Mary McCarthy Greeter Blithe Spirit MaUsE Message Line Double Click _ http hottub ca mause Hm 905 576 2097 Oshawa Email mikeshaw idirect com FA
19. enu lists to the left Lido 7 gives you access to and control over just about every aspect of SCSI drive features Every menu item listed under each heading will take you into a different dialog box or chart where you can select some aspect of the drive to test or some characteristic to alter or set prefer ences for It is the nature of SCSI Utilities that they cannot perform many of their operations upon the drive in which they are installed This makes sense when you think about it you can get info about a drive and run tests on it while it is running your Mac but you cannot perform any opera tions that will change the size or number of partitions of the drive you are running off without seriously disrupt ing the operating System running on it The difficulty arises when the only SCSI drive you have is the one in your Mac and you want to change its features Some actions will be allowed and others won t The best way to change the main internal hard drive is to borrow and connect an external SCSI drive to it install an operating system and a SCSI drive utility on the external drive and then restart the Mac with the external drive selected as the Startup drive With the internal drive off line you will be able to perform any operation you want on your internal SCSI drive To see what you can safely do to your drive with Lido 7 you must select first a drive and then an action If the action is non destructive like asking for a read out o
20. f the lido 7 condition of your drive the action will be permitted to proceed imme diately but if the action will cause irreversible changes to the data on your drive you will get the message to the left Cancelling the action is always the best bet unless you have decided that all of the information on the drive is expendable 210 MB Hard Disk Drive Partition Special Verify Test Overnight Test Seek Test oly Test Through Driver Test SCSI Direct Calls Special Help Get Volume info a Se ee eo SPC Start Up Delay Set Driver Cache Set Write Verification Set Interleave Set Error Recove ry Reaesian A Block sustem 7 Icons LL Special Get Partition info Customize Partitions Maximum IAT Setup 90o Marc Setup Two 50 Mac Setup Minimum Mac Setup Maximum AUX Setup OU A UX Setup Minimum AUK Setup Help TERR Device 2E Yolume s SCSI Bus Status rive Easy Setup Format Five Update Mount Drive is done Then you can select from the menu bar and proceed to make the changes you want You can test a drive from the Tests menu or get volume info without making any changes to the drive Selecting Get Volume Info from the Special menu will prompt you to select the volume for which you need infor mation The Show Map button will allow you to view the Volume Usage M
21. from private individuals and from auctions like eBay Those of us with older Macs like the Compacts the Mac II family Performas Centris and Quadras can take advantage of these cheap second hand drives and the smaller versions of programs SCS Utilities are not toys to be played with You can all too easily wipe out the entire contents of your hard drive Use with extreme Caution and only When necessary Partitioning There are lots of reasons to partition the hard drive I like to keep more than one system available in my Macs and the easiest way to do this is to partition the Hard Drive install a different system on each partition and then select the partition as the StartUp disk in the Startup disk control panel This is especially useful with more than one processor type installed in the same Mac like my Quadra 950 with a 33 Mhz 68040 and a 66 Mhz PPC processor or my Macintosh IIci which has a 25 Mhz 68030 and a 40 Mhz 68040 processor installed Repair utilities that cannot be run off the disk they are repairing can often act from another partition and multiple versions of programs and copies of files can be effec tively segregated if operating from separate partitions A partitioned drive can hold more files and small files will take up less room All information previously on the disk is destroyed by partitioning Each eames 311 r 7 i 1 1 j p Ae ma h a ee far et i Pra a aT aes f
22. his simple pro eram in version 4 3 or the new updated Adaptec 5 1 3 release can be found in just about every freeware utility package Unlike the other SCSI Utilities in this issue SCSIProbe is a Control Panel not an applica tion It has limited drive modifying capabili ties takes up very little space on the hard drive and can get general information about a SCSI device mount SCSI drives scan the SCSI bus add device and drive icons to the SCS Probe TSCM Devices Yendor Product T CPU Quadra 350 pple 6 When your computer restarts eject the system CD and use Drive Setup 1 7 2 as follows Bus ID LUA 7 Open Drive Setup 1 7 2 WARNING When Drive Setup opens do not click Initialise Doing so erases all the informa tion on your hard disk 8 Select your hard disk in the List of Drives list 9 Choose Update Driver from the Functions menu IMPORTANT If Update Driver is not available your hard disk may be pro tected by security software or unrecognisable drivers See the manual that came with the software to learn how to turn off security Drive Setup fE List of Drives Bus ID LUA Type Unrecognized driver or this disk is protected by security software This disk can still be initialized Initialize while you update the disk Even if the drive you have chosen does not have Apple drivers installed you can still initialise the drive Clicking Initialise will bring
23. it arrived I was surprised at how little I got There was a little plastic receptical with 4 tiny legs out the bottom C th dof and 4 tiny holes on 7 Pe SPEEDS the top a pair of tiny metal oscillators Math CPU Speed ner rated at 100 Mhz and pj integer un Memory 92 94 Mhz to replace j 2 16 times faster IMO 4 63 times faster my 80 Mhz oscillator 4 Complex Functions Processor 27 14 times faster Video 1 04 times slower Monitor Level 256 gt 2 2 36 times faster 2 31 times faster and a heatsink with adhesive to attach to the 68030 processor Also three sheets of instructions that were generic and Floating Point ons without FPU with FPU 1 97 times faster Questions I was not happy with these results but you can tell by the pictures with this article that I did persevere and got the oscillator to behave but it was a bit spooky for a while The oscillators have 4 long skinny wire legs that fit neatly eee eee eee 5 eee eee ee eee eee ee ee eee ee re nr ELE mE mm mm mE mm mm mE Oe n
24. ive 121M Blinds Drive capacity is 248502 oi byte blocks E The drive was formatted with an interleave of in the upper right corner is constantly updat ed by the program during operations to inform the user of important trivia about the SCSI drive and its technical specs The win dow on the left shows all the components in the SCSI chain for each SCSI bus The red slid er bar moves the window up and down so you can scroll through the list of devices and volumes to select the drive you want to work with The Drive Icon selector on the right side of the window has a lot of possible icons and I found that once I set up the main panel to format and partition the selected test drive a 121 Meg Maxtor SCSI drive named Plus it quickly turned the drive into the two 60 Meg drives with the attributes and icons of r gt APS Techno logies APS PowerTools This program has a few really nice features every important feature can be accessed from the one main panel that controls every process that you are likely to need for simple SCSI maintenance Each button in the window will bring up a set of selectable items that allow you to customise how you want your drive to be changed but this program also has an automatic cycle The AUTO INITIALISE but ton brings up the dialog box seen below and if I click OK the program will run along all by itself and ask me for assistance only when it needs to know my p
25. mat a floppy drive and has had the experience of putting a PC formatted 1 4 Meg floppy into his or her Mac and being told that the disk is unreadable Do you want to format the disk as a 1 4 Meg Macintosh Disk Of course you do The floppy won t work with your Mac until you do When the Macintosh system is connected to a external SCSI hard drive that does not have the right formatting the same thing happens Formatting the disk will make it Mac compat ible Unfortunately it will also make it a bit smaller Just as your 1 4 Meg floppy can only Sipi hold 1 3 Megs once formatted your new SCSI drive will hold less than its rated volume when it gets formatted too About ten per must have a master directory installed that will recognise and keep track of the location and number of files and folders on it and act as a desktop data base for the hard drive All information previously on the disk is destroyed by this action It is a good idea to re format your hard drive at least once each year The process checks the disk for any bad sectors and excludes them from the map of usable disk space After this procedure the Mac will not try to store information on these bad sectors Lido 7 Lido 7 installs in your Mac as one small init and two applications Lido 7 and PMount and has all of its fea tures listed in the pull down menus This makes it very easy to use so easy in fact that no manual is provided with it As you can see from the m
26. n I choose Clarus the dogcow and click OK g S ihaw NUPORTs installed 26 The Micronet 40 Meg Hard Drive is now two twen ties If I had chosen six equal partitions I would have six Micronet drive icons on the desktop all about 7 Megs each This would not be a good idea as seven Megs is too small a partition to be of much practical use The other two drive icons PPC Q950 and 68040 Q950 are 700 Meg partitions of a 1 4 Gig internal SCSI Seagate hard drive Test NUPORT Harthware 1 Show All Nubus Cards 3N Options Hell There was a time when every SCSI hard drive manufac DE Ecchi st E turer shipped a SCSI utility of some sort with their drives Reassign Block i and most of these utilities have disappeared over the Choose Desktop icon eC years Micronet Utilities has been around for a long time Get Environment HEE and each new version is an improvement From the f Options and NuPORT menus the various features can all be accessed and from the Advanced Options it is even possible to set a Password for a complete hard drive and make it inaccessible to outsiders Drive Specific Features HD Advanced Options iar Hard drive Copy Bus Status u m a oe en ee E M ee gg TR gD 1 spin Down DataDock Drive Identify Datapock Drive Stop DataDock Polling If you find that these SCSI utilities are inadequate to your needs then there is probably a commercial
27. nts used and what things the crystal oscillator that controls the processor also controls With some of the newer Mac s there are a few MHz differences in the top stable speeds reported for the same model so part of this is luck of the draw Output Enablers www oi com oe sells low cost snap on Macintosh accelerators These accelerators work by replacing the sig nal coming from the computer s original oscil lator with one of a higher frequency Some users have seen performance increases of up to 60 using OE accelerators which gives them one of the best price performance ratios in the accelerator market All their kits come with a second slightly slower oscillator that the customers can use if their computer does n t work at the highest speed Clock Chipping I happened onto this one like I find most things on the internet by serendipity I can t remember now what I was looking for or at that led me to this but I do know that I had no intention of attempting the surgery involved in this procedure before I committed to per form it All computers operate at a certain frequency with which operations are performed Within a certain class of computers for example Mac s with a 68030 processor the higher the frequency the higher frequency of operations processed and the faster the computer pro vided there is no other speed effecting hard ware like a cache or slow data path The designer of the computer Apple in this c
28. off the logic board Just touch the lit tle solder spots on the back side of the logic board with a light duty soldering gun and the solder turns as liquid as water and can be sucked up easily with copper wick designed for this purpose I installed the little sock et flat black plastic about one half by three quarters of an inch and an eighth of an inch thick by placing its 4 legs into the 4 holes left Socket your computer with a Macintosh cog 3 74 times faster Processor 1 71 times faster 1 14 times slower Monitor Level 236 gt LEIKI b 1 65 times faster E Complex Functions 1 70 times faster 1000 Floating Foint 22 ideo mmj iden 1O02 without FPU 1 67 times faster with FPL 1 54 times faster received confirmation via email that the order had been processed and that the kit is on its way The 15 00 charge for the IIfx kit is actu ally the most modest pricetag on the Output Enablers site but many of the kits for newer models are two or three times that and include a chiller fan For more information about the mechanics of these clock chippers and what you can expect from a chipped Mac there is a selection of Frequently Asked Questions on the Output Enablers site and for even more information you can visit the clock chipping site at http socrates berkeley edu schrier mhz html This is how it worked for me When the k
29. references The window The Following operations will be performed APS Drive 1 g 1 ve 7 7 EHI a ee pa HEAPS Drive g e Format the selected drive e Partition and Install drivers e Initialize the new volume Please selecta partition type J All Mac 05 Equal Mac OS Volumes Multiple Mac Yolumes AUX 1 0 SYSTEM Drive 1 Mac Volume System Drives Must be gt 75 Meg Cancel Every time you alter a SCSI drive you wipe it out SCSI Utilities are not something that you would use every day and never on a drive that has data on it that you can t afford to lose If your exposure to SCSI programs is non existent the best drives to experiment with when you are first familiarising yourself with SCSI utilities are small cheap drives that have little or no commercial value For this article on SCSI Utilities I connected a pair of small SCSI drives 40 and 120 Megabytes to my Quadra 950 external SCSI bus and ran all the utilities on one or the other of them There was no data worth saving on either drive and all of the SCSI utilities worked flawlessly Cane eee WARNING All data on the current disk will be lost AZUX 1 0 Data Drive ASUX 2 0 System Drive 1 Marc OS Volume System Drives Must be Meg lser 3 J Useri User my choice As each progressive step was com pleted the next came up I had to fill in my choices and before each ac
30. ssage below Device 40 ME Hard Disk Drive Larger drives take more zz Yolume s 2 MacOS time to format so patience must be exer cised During the formatting pro cedure it appears that nothing is Scan Bus For the purpose of demonstrating this pro eram I have attached a 40 Meg external Quantum drive to my Quadra and assigned it SCSI address 6 I select this drive with one happening but it is When the for BERE click All of the Lido 7 commands are now Matting is finished the box below MS 0000 available We will pretend that this is a new Ppears to suggest the next step in preparing the drive for use unformatted SCSI drive that has been wiped l i clean The first action required is that it be for there are plentiful exclamation Easy SETUP matted so that my Mac can read from itand Points throughout the dialogs Who could have known that for write to it To achieve this I simply click the _ Update Format button After about 40 seconds I get As the program Format was successful Please selecta i matting a drive would be so excit ing t setup option from the Partition menu suggests we will now open up the Partition menu and select to create this drive as one two or more partitions for use with Macintosh or AUX ag oy fat Heat a 3 a ee T Pa op ek eT r n Tan ig f lt 1 ao ES eres 7 1 ee
31. t SCSI utility and this latest ver Quadra S50 il 1307 ME Mac Hodel ID 0 IDS eT Dou me 7 o M ee SS Drive Search EjectRemovable Update Drivers Mount Unmount 5 Custom Partitioning 1 Reading Drive and Partition Information 2 Number of Mac OS partitions 2 eQUAHTUM F40 940 Program Code General CAZ Micronet Utilities Old Micronet SCSI hard drives shipped with sion 7 2 7 can be downloaded free from the an early version of this program v5 3 1 andI Mac files on the Micronet internet site Above have used it and recommended it frequently is the main panel that appears each time you because of the NUPORT menu which can help launch Micronet Utilities I have already 3 selected the 40 Meg Quantum drive which is j why the icon has turned yel low and the but j tons are all acti vated Firstly I click Format to get the message to the left and click on OK This program offers an abun j dance of warn ings and oppor f tunities for the novice to recon sider every 5 Ifyou click OK the following operations will be performed in sequence Set On Drive Cache Yalues Ll Format Low Level Install Driver Software Initialize Mal 05 Yolume s Warning All drive data and files will be erased Mac Mac 05 me e s fo Ce C3 Root amp User C3 Eschatology 1 w eqs 3 Blocks Gp Unreserved 1 2 Get Info Ca Swap C3
32. that their claims of being the low cost upgrade supplier are well founded The 25 speed boost that I have experienced with this old Mac IIfx must be the cheap est improvement I have ever made to it If your per sonal favourite old Mac is one of the ones listed in this article then you might consider checking out the Get Into Mhz numbers that a replacement oscillator can Run get for yours too Total Memory ES PowerPro Memory 0 MB Hal Motherboard Memory 32 ME Currently Running Mac 68040 MHz 2 Turbo 601 Startup 68030 Startup Personal Diagnostics program benchmarks system rated the 50 Mhz IIfx as an over all 22 compared with the normal over all IIfx rating of 17 for a performance improvement of almost 30 with all processor attributes test ed With the Pseud040 cdev enabled the Daystar PowerPro recognised the enhanced Mac IIfx as having a 68040 processor run ning at 50 Mhz Since this Macintosh IIfx is the same one I pre viously used to publish the Double Click from when I first became the newsletter Editor I decided to put it through its paces opening System Info SYMANTEC SYSTEM INFO Macintosh Selected Suites x Test CPU Motorola 68030 MHz S x Test Display Mae I High Resolution Video x Test Volume Mac lfs 0 x Test FFU Motorola 63852 To use MacRecorder you must plug it into one of the Serial Ports of a
33. the internet and you should be able to find them by doing a search with any browser The warning in the box below is to be taken seriously Although these programs are very user friendly and give warnings before proceeding with most irre versible opera tions it is still pos sible to make a ter Free SCSI Utilities Everybody and his dog is upgrading what was once a hideously expensive part of the Macintosh computer the SCSI hard drive The new versions of the high power publish ing and graphics applications are so huge compared to the previous ver PERIA iii ty sions that it has become normal for E new Macs to ship with up to 30 Gig Ean hard drives installed With video files soon be considered small The pricing of the new big drives is ridiculously oo EERE eee theres ond hand SCSI drive is that most ver low compared to the prices of a few years ago For example my venerable Quadra 950 has an Elite WREN 3 Seagate SCSI hard drive about 2 1 fim GIGs unformatted that cost MORE E t A ES seven or eight years ago when it was f new than you would pay now for a PETEN complete new G4 CPU with a ten ad E qH Gigabyte drive installed in it In 1986 Apple offered its customers a 20 Meg h haat drive for the princely sum of 1500 00 American What this means to the cheapskates among us is that there are suddenly more second hand SCSI 2 hard drives sized from 500 Meg to sev eral gigs available
34. ting one or both of these options 1 1 1 version 1 7 2 of Drive Setup will significantly increase initialization 7 Included with Drive Setup is the Drive Setup Guide a really useful step by step helper that will answer all your questions about how to do all the yO ay OU yet aS things to your SCSI hard drive that the rest of the programs do The solutions to any prob lems you might encounter as you try to update drivers partition disks format amp ini tialise drives mount or unmount drives test drives and set security preferences are explained fully in the excellent Drive Setup Guide 10 Click OK when a message appears telling 11 Quit Drive Setup when you see the mes sage Driver update was successful 12 In the Finder choose Restart from the Special menu If you have problems or Drive Setup fails to gy Drive Setup ee initialize disks or other storage media do a low level initialization specify a format for my hard disk divide a storage medium into partitions Troubleshooting resize a partition Definitions update a drive s software driver Why can t Use my disk with Drive Setup initialize an tern see my files remove 4 partition APS Powe rTools 4 1 1989 1997 CharisMac euskal mg lnc a D gt PowerTools PLEET p SESS SR SL LR LS LEL LR LSI LSS ILLS SSE SKS LL ELLER ESSE ESS KS Laem ys E Device At ib 6 MAXTOR 11205C5 405 Dee APS Dr
35. tion was allowed to proceed I was warned of the data destroying consequences of the action and given the option of backing down from the act For amateur or inexperienced SCSI drive users this program has the advantage over some of the others in that the program presents opera tions in order instead of presenting a menu from which you must make an educated choice from a lot of possible courses to follow There is a certain sameness about all SCSI drive utilities because they all perform the same functions and the warnings that all of the programs display are an example of this 0 59 gt APS Drive cy say 25MHz Running the 20MHz part at 25MHz will generate more heat than at 20MHz but no more than the 25MHz part if they came from the same production mask Many of the components in the computer need to be synchronised so a fundamental frequency is generated by a crystal oscillator to synchronise them Other parts like NuBus cards and video do not have to be the same frequency so they may have separate crystal oscillators A typical computer may have three crystal oscillators to clock different groups of components on the motherboard Provided the components that are clocked by a particular crystal oscillator are capable of a speed increase that crystal oscillator may be replaced with one of a higher frequency How much a specific Mac can be sped up by this method depends on how the motherboard was designed the compone
36. up the Initialisations Options window as seen above Yolume Hamels scs 0 CO AOMN drivet CD ROM dr i wes TRE 850 4 TRE 850 6 Drive Setup List of Drives Yolume Hamels SLES 0 CO AOMN drivet CO ROM drivet TRE 4 TRE 8350 6 Type Select 4 drive and then a function Drive Setup Here s the one that you get with an Apple computer that comes with the original Apple hard drive in it When you click on the icon you get the win dow above listing all your SCSI devices Drive Setup To use Drive Setup 1 7 2 to update your hard disk follow these steps 1 Back up your hard disk and turn off any hard disk security software Using Drive Setup to update a hard disk driv er with security software turned on may cause problems 2 Insert your system software CD in the CD ROM drive and restart your computer using the CD 3 Locate Disk First Aid on the CD and open the program 4 Select your hard disk and click Repair 5 When you re finished quit Disk First Aid and restart your computer Initialization Options update the disk see the troubleshoot ing chapter in the user s manual that came with your computer Options Low level format IMPORTANT If your computer has Ferd all data i one or more previous versions of 3 Drive Setup on the hard disk Apple recommends that you replace these older version s of Drive Setup with Selec
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