[shining-nickel17]

I have an old PowerMan G4 (OS X 10.3.9, 500MHz, 640 RAM) and I was hoping to use it as a music server. Everytime I connect to it from my C2D iMac through my home network and try to send or retrieve a file from it that is 200MB or larger the G4 will freeze and I have to restart it. I realize that this may have something to do with Data Block size settings or something of the sort, which in the windows world can be altered in the BIOS. Do Mac's have a BIOS or something of the sort? What would be the best way to solve my problem? Thanks all!

[Waragainstsleep]

If you have an external firewire dirve, I would install an OS on that and boot the G4 from it. Then test file transfer. Try it direct from the internal drive, if it still freezes transfer the file to the external drive and then go across the network. If its still freezing, you have a hardware issue.

[Sherman Homan]

Macs do not have anything like a BIOS file and there is no reason or need to modify data block sizes. If I were to guess at the problem it would be something wrong with your G4's hard drive directory. Something is failing with large read/write activity. Have you run Disk Utility or Disk Warrior? It could be a bad ethernet port, but doesn't seem probable.

[shining-nickel17]

I'll try running disk utility and disk warroir...