Somebody here must have a favorite Mac for an 8.2.3a system

[Robert L. kopf]

Thanks.

[Robert L. kopf]

Well, these specs differ from the ones you posted above. Are the two systems different?

[Lukkee Chong]

Same system. I have a note not to upgrade the system beyond OS 10.4.1 but have OS 10.3.9 installed. Only difference. The firewire drives are connected to the cpu and I also have the scsi drives running.
Let me know if you have any concerns.
lc

[Robert L. kopf]

I’ll try putting it together with OS 10.4.1 and Quicktime 7.1.3 with the cards as you have them and see how it goes. I’m not going to use SCSI drives, but will try putting an eSATA board in place of the SCSI card. If that gives me any grief, I’ll try using an external FireWire drive. I’m going to try using the standard graphics card with two monitors connected to it. That’s the way my old one was. I’ll let you know what happens. Thanks again.

[Christopher Kinsman]

Hey Robert, sorry to have missed your request from June 8. My 8.2.3a system runs on my G4 dual 1.4 with 2 gigs ram and an esata card. I have an P6000 card with lossless with FW. It works really well. I work on FCP a lot but still prefer the m100 interface. The G4 is not quiet, but a decent pair of noise cancelling headphones from Audio Technica will only set you back 90 bucks or so – and boy do they work. I’m seriously worried about being snuck up on while wearing them. I’m using 10.4.11 OS and upgraded to QT 7.6.2 and now have M100 crashes. I’ll have to uninstall that and head back down to 7.5 something. I use a raid I built myself from Mac Gurus and highly recommend those guys. They answer the phone and all emails promptly. I like their knowledge base and they won’t over sell you. 4TB with card/drives and box will run around 800 bucks. I’ve been using their raid for 3.5 years now and only a few minor problems they helped me fix for $0.00. Best of luck. It’s a good system, and I will be moving to M100 HD after my next few gigs. Best of Luck!
Kind Regards,
Chris K.

[Robert L. kopf]

Oops! The OS was just updated to v10.4.11 by the Apple software update thing. Do you happen to know whether or not this will be an issue? (I’m only now getting this system integrated)

[Wickham Strub]

The following configuration has never been officially tested but seems to be OK based on anecdotal reports from customers over the years…

– Media 100 i v8.2.3a
– Mac OS 10.4.11
– QuickTime v7.5
Do NOT go higher than QT 7.5. 7.5.5 will render M100i unusable and 7.6.x will restore video playback but you will have no usable keyframes in the bins.

[Robert L. kopf]

Thanks for that reply. For some reason, I hadn’t seen the prior one from Christopher Kinsman before now (thanks Christopher, for that one too).

I am trying to install the Media 100 8.2.3a software, but can’t find the key code in the stack of copies of software registrations, etc. Is there a way to deal with that? If the latest one I can find turns out to be something like v8.1, do I have to revert to using that? If so, is there a place where I can download older versions like that? I bought this old, used Media 100 to replace my other 8.2 one that apparently died due to heat or something.

[Robert L. kopf]

Nevermind about answering that. I’ve gotten it installed and running. We’ll see how it goes from here.

[Robert L. kopf]

I know that it’s been awhile since this was posted. But I find myself having to redo this without benefit of notes (can’t find them). So, how do I upgrade the machine to OS X v10.4.11 WITHOUT upgrading Quicktime past v7.5? And for that matter, do you have a link for Quicktime v7.5?