"Hi Mike, Got in a small amount of these Mac Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT PCIe cards for G5 PCI Express towers at $279.99.... a fantastic card for the PCIe PowerMac G5 systems.
Sincerely,
Jamie Dresser
Product Manager & New Product Development
Other World Computing, Inc."

"Hi Mike, today i recieved 2 Seagate ST3750330AS (750 GB) AEBS03 Drives.
Both report "ST3_INVALID_PFM" as model number.
(His mail included a link to a Seagate user forums post (earlier report here on this issue did too), but when I checked it this morning it was shown as 'deleted'.-Mike)
You are absolutely right. These guys deleted the messages!
But I bookmarked the support pages for info and firmware download.
Barracuda 7200.11 SATA models with firmware SD04 or SD14
Barracuda 7200.11 Reporting Wrong Cache Size
I know a service guy with a PC for flashing the drive with the new firmware. Lets see if he could fix this. I send you a mail if it works.
(he later wrote
Today I met the service guy (with a PC). Updating the firmware to AD14 was an easy task and done within minutes if you know what to do. Now both disks show the correct drive model number in system profiler.
Regards Niko"

I've also added this as a drive database report. This is why I prefer the Hitachi 7K1000s (due to a history of seagate drive/firmware issues in the past.) I've been very happy with the 1TB 7K1000 I bought in early Nov 07 for my G5 tower and would also be my personal choice for a Mac Pro (don't have one yet though).

"Mike, AMUG has posted a review of the QNAP TS-209 Pro. The unit provides dual, hot swap, 3.5" SATA hard drive bays with JBOD, RAID 0 and RAID 1 support. The TS-209 Pro includes a 500MHz SoC rocessor, 128MB of memory, three USB 2.0 ports and gigabit ethernet. This article provides detailed coverage of the features and performance of the TS-209 Pro which works well for Macintosh and PC network users.
Have a great weekend, TEAM AMUG"

• 320GB 2.5" WD Scorpio 5400RPM SATA Notebook HD - $187.50
• 250GB 2.5" WD Scorpio 5400RPM SATA Notebook HD - $132.75
• 200GB 2.5" Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 7200RPM/16MB Cache SATA Notebook HD - $185
• 512MB PC133/PC100 DIMM - $46.50
• 1TB WD SATA II HD - $266
  (The Hitachi 1TB is less after the $30 rebate for a limited time. However Oliver's tests showed the WD's denser platters performs better than I expected despite often spinning at 5400rpm (beating the Hitachi in some Quickbench benchmarks) - and is the lowest power (coolest running) 1TB drive I believe which would be a plus for ext. drive use (esp. where AC adapter rating isn't high) or in a hot enclosure)
• 500GB Elite-AL Pro Quad Interface Hard Drive - $208
• 1TB Elite-AL Pro Quad Interface Hard Drive - $342.75

Also my apologies (my fault) to those that are backordered on a xlr8yourmac T-shirt, but they're on the way to OWC now.

"Follow-up on earlier issue with iTunes, iSync, iPod and Palm
I wrote a while back about some issues I was having while trying to sync iCal to my iPod. (After updating to OS X 10.5.1 on a 17" MBP.) The issue I had caused only old Calendars to be seen in the Calendar tab in iTunes. I was unable to sync any new Calendars with both my iPod and my Palm.

Apple suggested that the problem was in the library file somewhere, but after doing a clean install there was no such luck. As a last chance before redoing my whole calendar i exported my calendar files and then deleted the whole calendar folder. I then reimported the export files and all was fixed. I am not sure what file was corrupt, but i would have to assume that it was something in my calendar folder.
Hope this helps someone else, it only took me a few months to figure out the problem.
-Rob"

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