updating firmware into 3rd party enclosure
Hi, everyone. I've been off this list for a while now, but I've got a question that I thought someone here might be able to help me with. This would have to be the most helpful and civil list I've ever been on. Here's the problem: I have a Yamaha crf1 drive in a Pyro 1394 firwire enclosure, connected to a clamshell firewire iBook It goes ok is recognised by Toast Lite. I want to update the firmware in the drive, but the installer for the Yamaha firewire drive keeps coming up with an error message [file not found; result code -43]. Does anyone have a good idea about how I can get around this, short of installing the drive into a friend's pc and installing the firmware there? cheers John -- 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
170 won't boot: please help
my 170 is giving me trouble, intermittently - like now! - refusing to boot up. It's happened three times so far over a period of a few months. The first two times I think it might have had a bit of rough treatment (i.e. been shaken). Both these times it miraculously self-corrected, the first time after a week, the second after a day.. That made me think it must have been a slightly dodgy connection somewhere, and I suppose that's still on the list of possibilities. But which connection? This time, I had just run Battery Amnesia down to a hard crash, and it just won't come back. For a while I was getting a happy mac, then it would just drop out from there. Now it doesn't even get that far. I am getting the startup chime, and the hard drive spins up. Trying to boot up on a floppy doesn't do any better. Can anyone please help me resuscitate my formerly trusty machine? Thanks in advance. John -- 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 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 Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
choices / CD-RW drives
Thanks for asking that question about the iBook options, Eric - I'm just trying to sort my way through a similar decision. Here in Australia it seems to be cheaper to get an external CD-RW. The upgrade price to an internal (8x4x24) CD-RW is around A$600 (i.e. around US$300), but for just under that I can get a La Cie USB/Firewire 16x10x40 drive with an 8Mb buffer and burn proof (buffer under-run protection) technology. How important is the buffer/ 'burn proof' feature? Is it less important for an internal drive than an external one? It seems to come down to a trade-off between the convenience of the internal drive vs the performance of the external one. Does anybody know about the performance of these drives? And would I use the DVD drive for anything more than playing movies? any thoughts or experiences would be much appreciated John -- 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 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 Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
