Is fwb is a scsi drive utility. The 5300 and 190 use internal IDE HD's. Your zip may run off of scsi? I'm just guessing . somebody let me know. -----Original Message----- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Crocker Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:06 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: 5300c and Sad Mac :(
Have you tried a later OS with this machine? I have an old 5300 that seems quite happy with a 4GB drive, running various OS versions up until 9.1. On Thursday, Aug 5, 2004, at 20:02 Europe/London, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, new to the list, I have a 5300c, and I have been > toying with > it trying to get a system installed on it, finally I was able to boot > off the > internal VST zip drive with 7.6.1, everything was going fine, and the > only > program I had to format the HD with was FWB Harddisk tools, so I low > level > formatted it, it updated the driver, and everything was kosher. well > then FWB > said something about setting up the volumes and that some older macs > couldn't > recognize drives larger than 2gigs, as my 2gig showed up a little over > 2.1, > but everything seemed ok so I didn't adjust the partition size, as I > figured > the 5300 could handle more than a 2gig drive, well that was..until I > restarted, now all I get is Chimes of death and a sad mac saying > 000f,0001, > and from what I have read this is a bus problem, which I'm thinking > something > went bad with the hard drive format. I have tried booting off an > external > cdrom, leaving the Zip disk in there, and all to no avail. Does > someone have > some suggestions? Or links to where I can see some pictures on > disassembling > the 5300 and replacing the HD? I'm lost as to where to go at this > point. I > was thinking of pulling it out and since its IDE hook it up to my pc > and > format it, but again I need some help disassembling the system. > > TIA, Josh > > p.s. feel free to reply offlist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am in > digest > mode because my ISP blocks the list for spam in normal mode. > > -- > PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | > -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
