Re: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?
on 3/4/04 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all cases, the ADTX-converted drive is limited to 8 GB. What befalls if you put in a 10 gig? Is there a maximizing strategy? What's he best way to handle a 10 gig drive in a 520c with a 603/167 cpu? As to OS and volumes? -- All the Best, R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit R.A.'s Old Mac (mostly) Stuff @ http://tinyurl.com/ubkw -- 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: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?
Anyone know where to order one of these converters? Later.Howard Computer n. A pocket calculator with a glandular problem. -- 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: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?
In all cases, the ADTX-converted drive is limited to 8 GB. What befalls if you put in a 10 gig? Is there a maximizing strategy? What's he best way to handle a 10 gig drive in a 520c with a 603/167 cpu? As to OS and volumes? In fact, I put a 10 GB thin drive on the ADTX converter, and it worked, but only 8 GB was available. It behaved fine, it just reported 8 GB to the host and Drive Setup was fine with that. The limitation doesnt exist in those unobtanium Australian converters, but those have gone the way of the Dodo Bird. -- 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: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?
Anyone know where to order one of these converters? ADTX converters have been discontinued, as have the unobtanium Australian ones. The ADTX converters limited the drive to 8 GB (truncated to 8 GB if is was larger); the Australian converter didn't have this limitation. ADTX still exists, however, now making storage arrays which accept UATA drives and convert them to UW-SCSI. These are rebranded to whatever the OEM wants. Not sold under the ADTX label. -- 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
PB 1400 screen replacement
Hello, Does anyone know where there are instructions for replacing the screen on a pb1400? I seem to remember seeing photos of the process somewhere on the Internet, but I can't locate them by googling. Thanks, wayne -- 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: No files on floppy driveless powerbook Duo 230
Nick Dalzell wrote: I am not a newbie to Macs, I have about 4 of em. even have an old IIgs... Etc., But the powerbook Duo 230 has a flaw: NO floppy drive! Thanks! Nick Hello Nick: I have two possible solutions for you. The external floppy drive that has been mentioned is the first. You can also use a minidock, which has SCSI target disk mode available (the best way actually) to get files from a desktop to a PowerBook. If you still need or want, either of these, please let me know off list, or you can look at the swap list. Sincerely yours, Grizzlygiant -- 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: Wallstreet won't boot....why?
on 3/5/04 12:32 PM, PowerBooks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:13:18 -0500 Subject: Wallstreet won't bootwhy? From: Jack Countryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or is there some other part that usually fails on these that we should try first? --- Yep. The HD. If it doesn't whirr when you turn it on, there's a chance it died. Happens. 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: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?
on 3/4/04 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all cases, the ADTX-converted drive is limited to 8 GB. which prompted R. A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask: What befalls if you put in a 10 gig? Is there a maximizing strategy? What's he best way to handle a 10 gig drive in a 520c with a 603/167 cpu? As to OS and volumes? to which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: In fact, I put a 10 GB thin drive on the ADTX converter, and it worked, but only 8 GB was available. It behaved fine, it just reported 8 GB to the host and Drive Setup was fine with that. My experience too - the drive is seen as an 8.x GB drive and all info beyond the limit (not sure of the exact figure) is unavailable. I tried formatting an IBM 10 gigger (not Apple ROMs BTW) on an ATA-bus equipped PB, then transfered it to the ADTX adapter plate. At first glance the drive appeared to be all 10 GBs but testing revealed an unholy mess of read-write errors. Upon re-initializing the drive (using Drive Setup IIRC) it then showed up as an 8.x GB drive with the remaining portion not visible or available for use. Worked fine though, and was quite a bit faster than the old 1 GB IBM dog with which the adapter originally came. [EMAIL PROTECTED] also wrote: The limitation doesnt exist in those unobtanium Australian converters, but those have gone the way of the Dodo Bird. Not sure which Aussy adapter to which you refer, but now's a good a time as any to repost my FAQ-of-sorts on the subject of IDE-SCSI adapters (though some of the links may be dead now and any prices are likely out of date): I'm aware of five IDE-to-SCSI adapters, ACARD, ADTX, Addonics, Artmix and Century. Of those, I have a pair each of the ADTX and Century adapters. The 2.5 ACARD adapter is no longer being made according to the ACARD engineer with whom I spoke at MacWorld/CreativePro NY 2003. I'd never heard of an ACARD 2.5 adapter until then, but according to the engineer with whom I spoke they did indeed make such an animal at some point. ADTX may still make their adapter, at least it is still listed on their website. This was the unit Apple sold, as a 1GB drive for use in the scsi PBs. The same drive/adapter combo was sold by aftermarket vendors (eg: MicroTech) for PowerBooks, SparcBooks, etc. Apparently IBM owns (owned?) a piece of ADTX. http://www.adtx.com/us/ http://www.adtx.com/us/conv-SCSI-IDE.html more info: http://mickey.lucifier.net/adtx/ The Addonics item linked below is for an adapter for 3.5 HDs, I don't know if they make anything for 2.5. I don't know anything else about this outfit. http://www.addonics.com/products/hub_adapter_converter/ide_scsi.asp Artmix looks almost like some kind of Mac 'club' or co-operative, here's a product page link: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_enurl=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.artmix.com%2Fj_sales.html more info: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lin kclub.or.jp%2F%7Ehero%2FOldies%2FPeripherals%2F25SCSI_IDE.htmllp=ja_entt= url Century's is currently available, one of mine is in a PPC540C/166 attached to an IBM 30 gigger: http://online.century.co.jp/BittradeTest/e_shop/chb25int.html With the Apple 1GB+ADTX PB SCSI drive, you can replace the drive with any 12.5mm or thinner IDE drive. However my ADTX adapters can recognize only a max of ~8GB, where the Century adapters have a 32GB limit. Also, the ADTX adapters I have are somewhat slow, the Century is faster (ADTX = ~400K/s vs. Century = ~1.1MB/S) in a PB 500. Of course, neither can make anywhere near complete use of modern HD speed as a SCSI PowerBook's scsi bus is the bottleneck. The Century adapter is not cheap at ~$90, the Artmix item costs less but I don't know if they will ship to the US. An ADTX adapter (most likely still attached to its original HD) can be had on eBay for $20 to $100 depending on the phase of the moon, the current Dow index level . . . etc. :-) hth, Dan K . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 . -- 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
Help: PB 520 Service Manual
Anyone have a copy of the PB 520/540 Apple service manual to share? Or a working link to a download site? Let me know offline, please. Thanks, Jim -- 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: Help: PB 520 Service Manual
Scott, If you haven't gotten an answer yet, you aren't likely to get one by asking a second time. Service Manuals are embargoed by Apple and discussing them on this list is strictly verboten. Asking people to send you a copy off-list is just splitting hairs (and asking members to trust you, too). Go Google for them. If you can't find them with Google, then repairing your 520 is not your only problem. Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- 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: Help: PB 520 Service Manual
Scott, My apologies. I could at least get your name right, eh JIM? ;-) Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- 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: I'm growing sick with my old pb 1400
Howdy, Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:15:12 -0500 From: John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I'm growing sick with my old pb 1400 From: Francesco Sforza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I'm growing sick with my old pb 1400 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:53:03 +0100 If I hold shipt-option-command-backspace while booting, it will not read the cd, let alone boot from it. The question mark comes out instead. It bootes from the hd when I release the keys. --- That's wrong. Hold down the C key to boot from CD. It sounds like you have a progressive extension conflict. Try opening with extensions off. Boot with the shift key (only) down, then come back and report what happened. 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: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?
The 2.5 ACARD adapter is no longer being made according to the ACARD engineer with whom I spoke at MacWorld/CreativePro NY 2003. I'd never heard of an ACARD 2.5 adapter until then, but according to the engineer with whom I spoke they did indeed make such an animal at some point. It was in their catalog a few months ago. It is an adapter from 2.5 EIDE to 3.5 SCSI, and includes the metalwork and the card. You install your 2.5 laptop drive to this thing, and is now is form-fit-function a 1 high 3.5 SCSI drive. IOW, it is NOT a 2.5 EIDE to 2.5 SCSI adapter, as is the ADTX, et. al. In re: ADTX and some new drives, the ADTX support frame was designed for the old format drives. The new format drives will not attach to the ADTX. At least not without: 1) removing both sides of the frame, 2) reversing them, and 3) reattaching the whole mess together, using only three screws, not four, as the location where one screw would have gone will interfere with some components on the ADTX board. -- 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
