Places to Acquire a PowerPC Mac?

2019-06-18 Thread Chris House
Hello, I just recently had to let go of a G5 Mac and would love to get back into PowerPCs. I've been looking around eBay, but there are very few machines that really caught my eye. I'm mostly interested in a G4 PowerBook, as I do not have any extra space for a full tower. I'm also hoping to

SCSI DB-25 hard drive

2019-06-18 Thread Barry Cross
My Mac G3 has SCSI hard drive, using a 50 pin connection. Which has gone U/S. I have a SCSI hard drive using a DB-25 connector, can I use this drive to boot up and run the Mac? This 2nd drive is from a Mac G3. -- -- - You received this message because you are a member of the

Re: Mac G3 hard drive corrupted

2019-06-18 Thread Clark Martin
I would use DiskWarrior as a fall back. Get a new hard disk, install a system on it then see if you can access the old drive. If you can then copy as much as you can off it to the new drive. You may be able to reformat the old drive and use it but I wouldn’t trust it. It may be that some

Re: Mac G3 hard drive corrupted

2019-06-18 Thread Art
DiskWarrior Sent from my iPhone SE. > On Jun 18, 2019, at 4:59 PM, Barry Cross wrote: > > The hard drive on my Mac Beige desktop G3 has become corrupted and will not > boot up. > > All I get is the flashing floppy disc icon, as its looking for the hard drive. > > When I start it from a