Broken Video on a Mac Book Pro
Recent disasters and recovery of a failed video chip on a Mac Book Pro restore my faith in regular backups and leave me impressed with Apple Care. This is a quick accounting of events and resolution.
Tag: Firewire
Starting OS X as a Firewire Drive
OS X has a couple of ways to bypass the normal starup process from your main boot device. One extremely useful one (for reasons discussed in a later post) is to start up OS X in “Firewire Target Mode”. If you hold down the “T” key when powering up, the machine will start up as [...]
Review: Western Digital “My Book” 1 TB External Drive
Product: Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1 TB External Hard Drive
Link: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=357
I’ve outpaced what I can back up on my original Accodata 160 G external Firewire drive, and went looking for a replacement. I didn’t have a specific brand or model I was looking for since the Accodata drive, which I had never heard [...]
