News Archive for: 10/20/2004 Wednesday's News
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Mac Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Review
Updates have been light the last couple of days because I've been working on a review of the Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL card, tested in a Dual 2GHz G5 vs the OEM 9800 Pro. The Intro page includes photos of the card (alone and installed), info from Apple system profiler on the card/firmware version, nvidia extensions, specs, etc. The 2D/Video page includes tests with Apple Motion (single and dual monitor setups), a list of resolutions when used with my Sony FW900 CRT, comments on DVD movie playback/CPU usage and image quality.
There's also pages of 3D/game tests including Call of Duty, UT2004, Quake.3, Halo, RTCW, and Jedi II.

(I've got family visiting today and have to spend some time with them before they leave so I'm going to be offline today.)

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Audio Hijack Pro 2.1.1
Rogue Amoreba has updated Audio Hijack Pro to 2.1.1:

" Another week, another update - Audio Hijack Pro 2.1.1 is here, with several important bug fixes. Most importantly, two timer bugs were fixed, the first with one-shot timers that didn't properly end and the second involving the hijacking of audio devices. As well, we've improved handling of AppleScripts and fixed a crashing bug with some Post-Processing scripts. We've also included a small new feature, the "Add To iPod" script, for processing recorded files."
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Avid Free DV 1.6.1
VT lists Avid Free DV 1.6.1 but no info on changes. Requires Mac OS X 10.2.4 or higher. (I remember one of the earlier FreeDV versions caused some sort of problem due to a driver it installed but can't remember the details. That was corrected I think shortly thereafter with an update.)
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CDRW/CD/DVD/Hard Drive/Cardreader Compatibility Database Update Listing
The Drive Compatibility Database had 9 new reports added today. (Entries from Tuesday, entries today are added the next newsday morning.) The database includes reports on Combo DVD-CDRW, CDROMs, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD+R, CDRW, Hard Drives and Removables (tape drive, ORB, ZIP, MO drives, CF/Smartmedia readers, etc.) in all interface types (IDE, IDE RAID cards, Firewire, SCSI, USB, adapters). Current total 13,764 reports. (searching by drive type/brand, mac model etc. listed below will show the full reports, most recent first - does not include updates to previous reports)

    CDRW Drives:
  • IDE Liteon SOHR-5238S in G4/AGP (OS X 10.3)
    (using Patchburn 3 for iApps burn support.
    Illustrated CD drive install guide here covers G4 towers up to the Digital Audio Model, Beige G3 MT and B&W G3 Macs)

    DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW Drives:
  • Firewire (cased) NEC ND-1100a used w/G4 AGP (OS X 10.3)
    (no native burn support so using patchburn 3)
  • IDE Pioneer DVR-106 in G4/AGP (OS X 10.3)
    (native burn support for the 106 in 10.2.8 and later)
  • IDE Pioneer DVR-106 in B&W G3 (OS X 10.3)
  • IDE Pioneer DVR-107 in (yikes) G4 no AGP (OS X 10.3)
    (native support in 10.3.3 and later)
  • IDE Pioneer A07-XLA in single G4 DDR (OS X)
    (noted failure during flash w/french site download/updater and using the pioneer A07XL firmware file - may be due to incorrect kernal file. just a guess)

    Hard Drives:
  • IDE Maxtor 160GB in G4/AGP using IDE PCI card (OS X 10.3)
    (no onboard big drive support w/digital audio system, only 2002 QS and later models. Illustrated guide to adding a 2nd HD here in B&W G3 rev2 and G4 towers up to the QuickSilver models.
    IDE articles page RAID section has an illustrated guide for adding 2 more drives in the side bays.)
  • IDE Western Digital WD1200JB 120GB in B&W G3 (OS X 10.3)
    (mentioned problems in OS X 10.3.x if the wd was set to single drive/used alone - ok in os 9.x or if used w/slave drive in os x. odd...)
  • IDE Western Digital WD1200JB 120GB in B&W G3 (OS X 10.3)
    (another report of problems running this drive as single drive when correctly set to 'single drive' setting - but ok if a 2nd drive present.)

You can find full owner reports (latest shown first) by searching the database by drive/brand/interface/mac models (the latest reports are shown first in searches). For guides to installing CD/CDRW/DVD drives or Hard drives in many mac models, see the IDE Articles page. The Firewire articles page also has guides on case kits, installing drives, etc.
If you've added a IDE, SCSI, Firewire or USB hard drive, CDRW, tape drive, etc. make sure you add a report to the database. (If you post an updated entry - make sure you use the same name, etc. as you did before so I can find your past entry. Thanks.)
(Incomplete entries are deleted. Do not post questions in the database, it's for drive reports not questions on what drive to buy - for that try searching the database for reports from owners of your mac model on the drive type/brand/interface, etc. you're interested in.)

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