"Version 1.0.2

Resolved incompatibilities with Mac OS X Tiger, allowing personalities to be loaded.

Fixed the calculation of time spent on game analysis.

Resolved issues with invalid FSAA settings.

Clipped windows and dialogs have been fixed.

Chessmaster 9000 will suspend operation when in the background.

Added tick-box to toggle less CPU usage when in background

If you're running v1.0 you will need to download the 1.0.1 Patch before installing the 1.0.2 update.

" Mike, I tried booting my iMac off the install DVD with the WD drive in SATA-1 mode (per the jumper setting) and the drive mounted. I went to partition the drive and was unable to find the option to change the partition map to GPT. I did find however when I connected my OWC mercury elite RAID that under the partition panel there was a button named options. I clicked that and found that I can indeed format external drives to the GPT scheme. I also found, when in target disk mode I was able to write and read off the internal drive.

Maybe your readers know something that I'm missing but I find it odd that the internal drive does not have the options button. I will try installing OSX on an external FW drive, then attempt to format the partition map on my internal drive to GPT.
-John "

You'd think if it didn't allow changing the format on an internal drive it would be forcing a (correct) default format.
Update - See Friday's news for , which said a) the WD 4000KD drive still didn't work properly even w/GPT format and b) he had no problems with a Maxtor drive that replaced it. (The reason disk utility did not show the different format options for the internal drive is that it defaults to GPT on the internal drive in Intel Macs and does not allow a change.)

"Subject: Raptor 150 (Bad News) Follow up...
Hi Mike,
Just wanted to report a follow up...
It worked great the first night when I reported the install to you, it wasn't having any of the symptoms that some of the other WD's people were reporting about. (he's referring to the G5 onboard SATA issues reported with WD4000KD drive, usually the fix was using a PCI SATA card-Mike) I moved a huge chunk of data onto and then back to another drive and it worked only the first couple of times. The next evening spelled disaster...

It was having the same issues that the others were having only worse, it was corrupting data and it wreaked havoc on some system files. I tried to repair permissions and then ran some other utilities only to have the system lock up again. I checked the jumpers and tried everything that other people posted and then checked WD's website as well with no luck. I finally decided to boot off a Firmtek 1/V4 card and it finally worked. Now I have to re-clone the drive from my original drive and call it a day.

The only thing that doesn't work is the Apple Hardware Test, it won't boot now, it reports some type of RAM kernel error and refuses to start the test. Oh well, I guess it's a small price to pay for booting the beast off another controller card.
It seems to be booting just as fast off the Firmtek card as it did with the on-board SATA, takes about 18 seconds. (Normally booting from PCI cards takes a bit longer.)
Take care, Niko "

I added this as an update to his post in Monday's news. Previous Raptor models were not reported to have any problems like this and another G5/Raptor 150GB owner replied to this post saying he's not seen any problems so far but didn't mention if he'd repeatedly tried large file copies.

" XGrid comments:
I thought it would only be fair to point out that XGrid does exactly what it promises to do. His expectations for it to act like an automatic extension of processors was just wrong. That's not what distributed computing is about.
He confused a super-computer cluster with XGrid distributed computing. It takes incredibly fast connections between machines to make the overhead of passing low level code between machines worthwhile. It has to be distinct, independent chunks of data to be processed for something like XGrid to be valuable. It is more like SETI at Home than a super computer set up.
-Mark S. "

I added Mark's comments to the previous post on the archived news page also.

" I have a delta 1010LT and what usually happens to me is that when I end a sound source (i.e. pause iTunes or escape out of a game) I will get a stuttering repeat of the ended sound. What fixes it for me is opening 'audio midi setup' and briefly changing the sample rate, then back to 44.1khz.
I really hope m-audio hurries up! It's been a while since the os x update!
(I asked Ryan what driver version he was using as some readers with M-Audio cards (other than Revolution owners) previously said they were using an older driver in Tiger vs. the latest one.-Mike)
The very latest - 2.0.5 I believe.
-Ryan "

• How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer (Apple kbase doc)
• iDVD 6: Error #-34502 during burn process (Apple kbase doc)
• Mac OS X: About file system journaling (Apple kbase doc)
• AirTunes: Error -3256 when streaming to multiple AirPort Express units (Apple kbase doc)
• Configuring iTunes for multi-room playback
• OpenOffice beats Microsoft to Intel Macs
• FWdepot New products (incl. PCI Express Firewire Controller cards)
• iMac performance claims a fudge
• A Warning To Those Wanting Windows on Intel Macs

DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW Drives:
• IDE Pioneer DVR-110D in (MDD) Dual G4 DDR (OS X 10.4)
• IDE Sony DW-U21A (flashed to LITE-ON SOHW-1653S) in G5 tower (OS X 10.4)
  (although Tiger has basic iApps burn support for most drives he noted using Patchburn 4. Another report of iDVD 6 showing Dual Layer/8GB project option with non-apple supported drives.)
  
  Hard Drives:
• IDE (SerialATA onboard) Western Digital Raptor 150GB in G5 Tower (OS X 10.4)
  (problems later noted)

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