Re: Mac Powerbook 520c CPU Upgrade info need
Damn. All this talk of 500-series PowerBooks is making me want to go to the attic and put my NetBSD running, 68040 upgraded, 90 MHz 540C back into action, instead of writing code, like I should be doing... :-P ,xtG .tsooJ Whoa, did you say 90MHz? Do you mean 90/45 (as usual speed nomenclature for 68040s is 50/25MHz, 66/33Mhz, 80/40Mhz, core clock be 2x the bus interface) or do you mean your CPU is genuinely running at 90MHz?! If so, how'd you manage that? Even the 68060 didn't go that fast. Besides, the '040 doesn't support clock multipliers like the PowerPC, so you'd also need a 90MHz bus to run a 90MHz CPU (all '040 macs run 1:1) It should be noted that the 68040's clock input runs at 2x the actual speed of the CPU, hence the dual speed nomenclature. A 66/33MHz 68040 is really only a 33MHz part. Still, intriguing. I'll bet you clocked your bus to 45MHz with a 80/40MHz 68040 installed. ;-) Peace, Drew More importantly, where did he get a CQFP 40 MHz part ? Mad Dog -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: Mac Powerbook 520c CPU Upgrade info need
Tom Lisa P wrote: It should be noted that the 68040's clock input runs at 2x the actual speed of the CPU, hence the dual speed nomenclature. A 66/33MHz 68040 is really only a 33MHz part. Still, intriguing. I'll bet you clocked your bus to 45MHz with a 80/40MHz 68040 installed. ;-) Peace, Drew More importantly, where did he get a CQFP 40 MHz part ? Motorla still has them but they're expensive. You can buy them online from the IIRC for: *checks* MC68040FE40A - $216.00 http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MC68040nodeId=018rH3YTLC4622 That's more than the cost of a PPC upgrade but you can always find these whereas you'd be lucky to find the PPC card. Mike Hebel -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
OT: Mac Friendly Web Host
I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. Thank you, Cliff -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 07:45AM, Cliff Rediger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. http://www.godaddy.com has very good prices, and seems to be as friendly as most. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host
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Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host
Fabian Fang wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 07:45AM, Cliff Rediger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. http://www.godaddy.com has very good prices, and seems to be as friendly as most. I've been using http://www.tigertech.net for over 3 years with no hassles at all. I have 4 domains registered through them and have yet to have a problem. Fran -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host
The best of all: JMUG.org http://www.jmug.org Mac techs, Mac servers Jim Cliff Rediger wrote: I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. Thank you, Cliff -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: PB 540c battery
At 4:01 PM -0800 2/15/03, Alan O'Neil wrote: Sorry to post again, but I am still not clear on what to do. I just got a PB500 battery, which is not seen in my PB 540c. I will go to the Shack this week and buy a 9.6v RC battery an use it if I can get a personal confirmation that this will in fact work without any logic on the batt itself. If it won't, I can try to crack open my dead batt and transfer the circuit to my new batt. But will the circuit report the batt to the PB as being old and decrepit? I won't be charging the batt through the PB, so recharge problems are not an issue. This sounds like a REALLY bad idea. Either get the 500 battery working, or buy a GOOD one. Put the battery in the right slot, and run Intelligent battery recondition (DL from Apple), and that may jolt the battery to be seen. There is also software from Lind and another package called EMMpathy (this is the best, and I'm forwarding you a link for this) Paul -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: Newbie and PowerBook 520 Question
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Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host
Might I suggest ItsAMac at http://www.itsamac.com. I used them for a corporate site and they were great. You can host on OS 9 or OS X. Plus, they are very reasonable. HTH... Chris Malanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 01:36 PM, (PowerBooks) wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cliff Rediger) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 07:45:53 -0800 Subject: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. Thank you, Cliff -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Malanga) writes: From: Chris Malanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:07:52 -0500 Might I suggest ItsAMac at http://www.itsamac.com. I used them for a corporate site and they were great. You can host on OS 9 or OS X. Plus, they are very reasonable. Now that's somthing I hadn't thought of. i.e. OS. I'll have to check the other sites to see if they support earlier OS versions. Thanks, Cliff -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: powerbook 1400 ethernet
I've had great success with Global Village units. I especially like the GV Ethernet/56 k modem card. Allows use of the easy to use GV software. I can either connect via ethernet to my network (standard cat5 RJ45 cable) or phone lines for modem use. (standard phone cable) It costs a bit more than an ethernet only card, but is less than buying both an ethernet card and a separate modem card. It's also easier having just one card and dongle than two. David Allen -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
How to mirror a drive
What I want to do: Mirror my drive on to a new drive. Is there a connector to hookup an _internal_ drive to a PB 1400 through the card slot? Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: How to mirror a drive
Don't know about the PC card slot, but I've heard of IDE to SCSI adapters, assuming you can find a way to power the drive, I guess that could work, but I have a feeling their price is more designed for permanent use... -- john On 17/2/03 10:59 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to do: Mirror my drive on to a new drive. Is there a connector to hookup an _internal_ drive to a PB 1400 through the card slot? Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: PB1400 prob
this is one bad pickle I didn't say before but I got to the extension manager using the space bar, then turned off the Time sync extension and continued booting only to get a different extension error (HP Background...) rebooted again back to the ext mgr, turned off that one, and got a different extension error, back to ext mgr, turned that one off and another extension error. Then I turned all extensions off and got the To turn extensions off, hold the shift key... message, which is the same message that comes up when holding the shift key. I've been trying original os 8.0, 9.2, techtool with 9.04, techtool with 8.6, cds, on the internal cd drive, and the external non-apple cd. I don't have a floppy/ drive or os disk. It was/is running os 9.0. It's a friends machine who said it was working fine for a few months since the 9.0 install then this 'lockout' Would a bad pram battery cause this? It just feel like it. Dan On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 06:40 PM, John Smith wrote: Well, this IS a dilly of a pickle... The internal CD drive should be able to start-up of a disk. If not, there is something wrong with the disk or the drive. Your external drive: is it apple-branded? Older non-apple Cd-drives were more difficult to get working (from memory) because apple didn't support them in the OS. Is the CD you are trying to boot up off ok? What version of the OS is it? I tried booting my 1400 using a tech tool pro disk, which didn't work, not sure why, but my guess is incompatible OS (9.0.4). Sounds dumb, but try cleaning it, by wiping from the centre of the disk outwards, and working your way around. Wiping in a circle (i.e., along the track the laser reads) can destroy the disk, so try to avoid that :-) If you have one, use an original Mac OS disk. Otherwise, try using a floppy disk to start 'er up. All you need to do (by the sounds of it) is get to the finder. Regardless of what drivers/extensions are installed, you can always manually remove the time-sync extensions, which are the original reason for this whole calamity... --- John On 17/2/03 11:25 AM, djl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried these four (command-option-shift-delete) and other combos with no luck. Turning off extensions with the shift or space bar(extensions mgr) returns the error: To turn off extensions, hold the shift key while starting up ? Dan -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 Electronicshttp://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
Re: How to mirror a drive
My limited understanding of ATA drives is that the computer looks on the 'master ATA' drive first, then the secondary. You would probably have to set your powerbook HD to slave mode (using jumpers on the disk itself). Otherwise, like you say, the computer may start-up off the powerbook drive, or simply not recognise it, or crash on startup. Three scenarios which are useless to you :-) Of course, it could also simply work without a problem first go... But I've posted too many mails today already, I better let someone else get a word in... -- John On 17/2/03 2:47 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2/16/03 5:50 PM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:50:45 +1100 Subject: Re: How to mirror a drive From: John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't know about the PC card slot, but I've heard of IDE to SCSI adapters, assuming you can find a way to power the drive, I guess that could work, but I have a feeling their price is more designed for permanent use... -- First, thanks for the Re. I know the card slot supports hooking up any ATA compatible HD (need the apprpriate drivers to operate it, of course), so I was thinking all I might need is power, somehow. OK, suppose I pull it from the PB and plug it into my G4 tower as a secondary drive. What will happen when I boot the G4. Will it know it isn't the startup drive? What if I rename the HD in my PB, then do the above? Would that prevent the G4 from mistakingly booting it as the startup drive? If that would work, then I can pull the CD ribbon and plug the newer drive into it and use Disk Copy to drop the old drive onto it, right? TIA, Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: How to mirror a drive
OK, suppose I pull it from the PB and plug it into my G4 tower as a secondary drive. What will happen when I boot the G4. Will it know it isn't the startup drive? You'd have to buy a IDE 3.5 to 2.5 cable converter for sure- no big deal, $4 online from Computer Geeks or $10-14 from a local computer store. That will let you hook up a laptop drive on a desktop IDE bus just fine- in fact it's the easiest way to install a Windows OS on an empty laptop drive for many PC laptops (if DOS drivers don't exist for their Cd-ROM, for example if you only have a PC Card IDE/CDROM that doesn't have DOS drivers). Bigger Q is whether on your G4, did Apple get around to finally using a real IDE controller or their half-umm...way desktop implementation that only allows one IDE device per channel and not a true master/slave combo like all other ATAPI/IDE controllers on the planet. It might have started to be implemented with the later revisions of the B/W G3 but that's a subject for another list (I'd say if I knew for certain, but I don't). The B/W G3 had a IDE HD, ZIP, and CD-Rom but there was something funny IIRC and replacing the zip or adding a 2nd drive I think was still an issue at least with some versions of the B/W G3. Maybe LEM web site has some info here, those things are old now... I think by the 2002 G4's they finally were using 1995 IDE technology and you could put a master/slave drive combo on one cable, but that's a lot newer model Mac than I have had to work on at this point. What if I rename the HD in my PB, then do the above? Would that prevent the G4 from mistakingly booting it as the startup drive? I would think that the boot disk on the G4 would retain it's blessed system folder and be able to keep track of which drive was which via PRAM. Regardless of the name. There's more to ID a drive's location than name (bus, position, etc). If that would work, then I can pull the CD ribbon and plug the newer drive into it and use Disk Copy to drop the old drive onto it, right? I find it unlikely that the internal IDE ribbon (CD or HD) of a G4 would match the 2.5 1400 laptop HD connector, you need the aforementioned adapter. Unless they are doing something weird with G4 desktops IDE bus anyway and running slow, hot (in comparison) laptop drives on them... I was going to reply earlier and ask if you had a desktop Mac that you could try the IDE laptop cable adapter thing with, but I refrained, thinking that someone who was putting up with a 1400 would not have the later model Macs that this might work on :) Like I said the cable adapter trick works a treat on Windows installs, I've done this a few times, but as much as I like some things about Apple, they have broken standards in the past and it might be a royal pain or just impossible to do this with their IDE implementation, for no logical reason whatsoever. The one good thing about Macs is that if you can just figure out a way to copy the files across to a new HD, even via a localtalk printer cable file copy, it will be bootable when done, something which certainly isn't true for Windows. Anyway, with an adapter it COULD work. you might have to pull off the internal CD or ZIP on the G4 to make a place for the 1400 drive but it would be fun if it all just worked once you got the cable adapter. Brian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Re: How to mirror a drive
Bigger Q is whether on your G4, did Apple get around to finally using a real IDE controller or their half-umm...way desktop implementation that only allows one IDE device per channel and not a true master/slave combo like all other ATAPI/IDE controllers on the planet. It might have started to be implemented with the later revisions of the B/W G3 but that's a subject for another list (I'd say if I knew for certain, but I don't). The B/W G3 had a IDE HD, ZIP, and CD-Rom but there was something funny IIRC and replacing the zip or adding a 2nd drive I think was still an issue at least with some versions of the B/W G3. Maybe LEM web site has some info here, those things are old now... Hmm, as the owner of a beige G3, I can speak from (annoyed) experience on this one They finally got around to master/slave support on 1 IDE controller in the Rev C G3 (or was it Rev B). Essentially, it's not a controller limitation but rather a ROM limitation. It could be circumvented in Rev A G3s by replacing the Rev A ROM with a Rev C ROM. No New World macs should have this problem. In fact, most of the G4s I know use 1 controller for the standard HD and Optical drive, the second controller is open (or is used for the zip, 2nd optical, 2nd HD, etc). Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://homepage.mac.com/alk/ Want to know if your neighbor has Wi-Fi? Find out with ClassicStumbler! http://homepage.mac.com/alk/classicstumbler/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
Corrupted Downloads?
Hi! I'm using my recently bought PB 190cs, with OS 8.1 and 40Mb RAM, no Virtual Memory. But found that Eudora 3 is a bit outdated. I need something that reads e-mail formatted with HTML. I d/l'ed v4.2.1 (68K ) from Eudora, but during expansion, StuffIt warned about some damage. Tried to use the installer, but says it needs more memory, zero K available. It is damaged. D/l'ed the same version from a site in France, same results. Took a break, d/l'ed MacLynx 68K version, it has 68K and PPC versions. PPC works great in my Wallstreet, 68K opens and then closes with a Type 1 error in the 190cs. D/l'ed ICQ v1.7.2b (68K), same type 1 error. Other d/l's work fine. (Snak, AOL IM, Netscape 4.06, but NOT 4.0.8) So, Does anybody know of a site where I can d/l Eudora 4 and/or MacLynx that are known to be good? Best regards. Hugo Diaz -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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
