3400 vs. 5300 screen brightness

[kaldav]

Hello,
I am running a powerbook 5300 and a 3400 side by side. The 3400 
screen looks more dimmed, less contrast, less bright. Besides the 
Brightness adjust button above the keyboard, are there other obvious 
changes to make in the Control Panels?
Thanks.

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Re: I'm growing sick with my old pb 1400

[Ken Norris]

OOPS!!
-
> That's wrong. Hold down the "C" key to boot from CD.
-
My Apologies. I think you had it right for a PB 1400

>>> hold shipt-option-command-backspace while booting,

lookss right to me now, I forgot...
-
> 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.
--
Did you try the above? If it boots, you _probably_ have a conflict, if not,
then we'll have to look at PRAM batteries and HD problems.

Again, my apolgies fora dumb error,
Ken N.


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Re: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?

[ACFX44501]

>>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.
>I've gotten the 4th screw in place by grinding down the screw's head 
>until it was _really_really_ thin. I acquired another adapter sans 
>brackets and just hot-melt-glued the board and drive together.

Using a M3-0.5 VERY thin head screw, from a Wallstreet, say, would solve 
this issue.

Sadly, these screws are scarce.

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Re: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?

[ACFX44501]

>It came to me in  a  520c  attached to an Apple Computer branded IBM OEM
>Model DMCA-21080 1.0gb 2.5 inch AT 12.5 mm Internal HDD Firmware 1996 that
>was "Designed and  Manufactured to  Apple  Specification" FRU: 73H6423 P/N
>46H6107 And I'll tell ya, you could get it turned the  wrong way around
>pretty easily.

The EIDE interface and the SCSI interface have the very same width (and 
these *could* accept the same connector), but the number of functional 
pins on an EIDE drive and a SCSI drive are quite different.

The "cross board" connector supplied with the ADTX is the very same width 
as the SCSI connector on the PB 500.

Since the Apple-supplied, "converted" drive was never expected to be 
serviced or "upgraded" by the user, the user can very easily confuse the 
EIDE side and the SCSI side.


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Re: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?

[R. A. Cantrell]

on 3/6/04 4:36 PM, Dan K at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> ADTX board.
I'm holding one in my hand as I  try to type. P/N A360059

It came to me in  a  520c  attached to an Apple Computer branded IBM OEM
Model DMCA-21080 1.0gb 2.5 inch AT 12.5 mm Internal HDD Firmware 1996 that
was "Designed and  Manufactured to  Apple  Specification" FRU: 73H6423 P/N
46H6107 And I'll tell ya, you could get it turned the  wrong way around
pretty easily.
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Re: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?

[Dan K]

I wrote:
>>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.

To which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
>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.
While I don't recall a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter, I did extensively grill the 
engineer of whom I spoke about above specifically about a 2.5" to 2.5" 
adapter and I'm 97.4% certain he understood about what I was rambling. :-)

>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.
I've gotten the 4th screw in place by grinding down the screw's head 
until it was _really_really_ thin. I acquired another adapter sans 
brackets and just hot-melt-glued the board and drive together.

The Century adapter has (IIRC) both style holes in its brackets. Been 
awhile since I messed with one though . . .

Dan K

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Re: New to list

[THE ROCK]

Care to recommend a card?
TIA.
Peter.
VidaVerde wrote:



I've been googling about what possible tweaks there
are for 3400's out there.  It seems that some people
say that cardbus is supported just that most of the
cards don't fit without shaving or doing a $99 chassis
upgrade through MCE I think thats who it was..  I'd
just like to confirm that before I start ebaying
around for a usb card.


absolutely no problem fitting a cheapie USB card. You just need to 
file off the lug, takes about 5 seconds.

Note you have to insert it after boot-up to be recognised . More to 
the point, you therefore have to remember to eject it before shut-down!

Ben




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Re: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?

[ACFX44501]

>And anyone know where to get the converter other than "get lucky on eBay 
>with your 5xx purchase"?  Looks like this might be the only real downside 
>to the 5xx other than battery price, which is otherwise a super machine.

EBay and Swap are the best sources.

There do exist 1 GB 2.5" drives, so unless you can clearly see that an 
ADTX converter is attached to the drive, I wouldn't automatically assume 
that all 1 GB 2.5" SCSI drives were "converted".

Now, those Microtech 1.3 GB drives are definitely converted, as a 1.3 GB 
SCSI was never made.

(Toshiba and IBM both made 1 GB SCSIs for a brief period).

I bought two ADTX-converted drives using Swap, and both were sold for 
essentially the price of the ADTX alone.

The drives which were removed became upgrades on 190s/5300s.

So, I have two 500s which have huge HDs.


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Re: 520 -- internal IDE converter cable?

[Ruffin Bailey]

>>> 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.

Couldn't you create two partitions, each of 8 GB or less?  I thought the limitation 
had to do with running out of pointers to memory locations -- and was related to the 
reason that you'll see even a 2 byte text file take up 153k (or whatever's 
appropriate) on the larger drive.  Each drive partitioning "strategy" could cut a 
drive into x pieces of up to size y, and if x*y for the "strategy" you're using (eg, 
HFS) < total size of the disk, you're out of luck on the extra space.

Of course you can add a great number of x*y sized drives to the machines, which I 
thought was how the partitioning scheme/trick worked.  Now you have 2*x*y worth of 
space you can reach (or greater) that just happens to reside on the same piece of 
hardware.

In any event, it sounds like were I to find the converter board, I'd just have to 
initialize the drive on another Mac before shoving it into my 520 to overcome the 
Apple drivers issue?  And anyone know where to get the converter other than "get lucky 
on eBay with your 5xx purchase"?  Looks like this might be the only real downside to 
the 5xx other than battery price, which is otherwise a super machine.

Thanks for the info,

Ruffin Bailey

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Re: I'm growing sick with my old pb 1400

[Tom and Lisa P]

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.
"C" doesnt work with the 1400.

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.
Mad Dog

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