[G4] Wanted - MDD FW 400 system install disks

[Paul]

Hello Bruce,

many thanks for your helpful and informative reply to my query. I was 
not aware of any of this, so it’s good to know. I only acquired the 
computer last week. It had Mac OS 10.2.8 on it, and it also had 
Classic. I erased the drive because the fellow I got it from had left 
some stuff on there I didn’t want. I used a commercial version of 
Jaguar 10.2 to do the erasing - so at present the computer has Mac OS 
10.2 installed.

I’m not sure what you mean by firmware, but if you mean the computer’s 
boot ROM, this is 4.4.8f2, which is the ROM version as recommended on 
Apple’s website, to reduce fan noise under OS 9.

Still waiting and still hoping for those disks...........

Thanks

Paul


On 02/03/2008, at 10:18 PM, Bruce Ryan Nakamura wrote:

> Paul wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I recently acquired a G4 Mirror Door Drive 1.25 GHz DP tower (the 
>> FireWire 400 model), without the original system disks. I still use 
>> OS 9 (the real one, not Classic), and as I’m sure you all know, I 
>> cannot get OS 9 onto this machine without the original disks. So if 
>> someone has a set of these disks that they no longer need, I would be 
>> happy to purchase these from you.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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> Hello Paul,
>
> What OSX is loaded on this MDD?  I also have a pair of G4 MDD Firewire 
> 400 Macs with 10.3 on them.  So far as I can tell, once a MDD has 10.3 
> or higher on it, it loses the ability to read the genuine Apple MDD OS 
> CD's.  In other words, both of my MDD's cannot load from the original 
> genuine Apple MDD CD's that came packaged with one of my MDDs.  I 
> think the firmware gets modified.  When I put the original Apple MDD 
> CD into the DVD drive, my MDDs don't even recognize that there is an 
> Apple OS CD in the drive.  My understanding is that the CD's have a 
> certain revision number on them and if the revision number is not 
> compatible with the current firmware, the MDD won't even recognize 
> that there is an Apple OS CD in the drive.  The local Apple store 
> didn't know this and I spent hundreds of dollars replacing parts that 
> didn't need to be changed, before we all realized what the problem 
> was.
>
> In other words if you get a set of genuine original G4 MDD CD's it 
> won't load unless somebody else knows something I don't.  I have also 
> found that trying to go down from 10.3 to 10.2 won't solve the 
> problem, because it seems that once the firmware gets upgraded, it 
> won't come back down.
> However, if you can get a genuine set of Apple G4 MDD OS DVD's , that 
> might work, but I don't guarantee it.
> Cordially,
>
> Bruce Ryan Nakamura
>
>
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