Re: Power Boy FireWire/USB drive encloser

2002-04-01 Thread Kochkodin
Exactly what is this powerboy thing ? TIA Mike K makmac wrote: Gary D. Adams on 3/25/02 5:07 PM wrote: I've had one for several months, and it's performed flawlessly. I bought a Zip drive from CompGeeks some time back and it had the click of death. I e-mailed them and got an return

Re: Power Boy FireWire/USB drive encloser

2002-04-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 01/04/02 10:22, Kochkodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly what is this powerboy thing ? It's a hard disk enclosure with FireWire and USB interfaces. There is no hard disk included, you must provide one. Since the enclosure is really small and designed for portability, it will only work

Re: Smartmedia PCMCIA Card Reader success

2002-04-01 Thread Remy Davison
Thought you guys might want to know- I downloaded iPhoto and now my PC Card Smartmedia reader mounts as a disk on the desktop in OS X and iPhoto imports the photos beautifully. (iPhoto runs fine, even though my Wallstreet is under spec) I suppose iPhoto must have drivers included which allow it

Re: Power Boy FireWire/USB drive encloser

2002-04-01 Thread Gene Merritt
On Monday, April 1, 2002 11:33 AM, Kochkodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this means that if I go and get a 60gb hd for my Pismo, I can then take out the OEM 10gb drive and hook it up as an external? Can that then also be used to connect to my imac? Yes, in both cases. I took the IBM drive

Re: Power Boy FireWire/USB drive encloser

2002-04-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 01/04/02 11:33, Kochkodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this means that if I go and get a 60gb hd for my Pismo, I can then take out the OEM 10gb drive and hook it up as an external? Can that then also be used to connect to my imac? I replaced the OEM drive there w/ a 60GB Maxtor and now

Re: Travelstar PCMCIA Card HD (was VST Expansion Bay)

2002-04-01 Thread Gary D. Adams
Just for everyone's information, I got the drive from CompGeeks today, unpacked it, hooked it up, and it showed up fine as a PC drive. Then I reformatted it as a Mac HFS+ with two partitions. Works great. In case any are interested, here's the URL:

Re: Power Boy FireWire/USB drive encloser

2002-04-01 Thread Gary D. Adams
Yes, the same manufacturer (NewMotion) makes a 3.5 enclosure, and it works fine, too. I have both! Got 'em both from Computergeeks.com. Gary Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 01/04/02 11:33, Kochkodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this means that if I go and get a 60gb hd for my Pismo, I can then

System Folder Backup

2002-04-01 Thread Harper, Charlie T
I tried to backup my System Folder on my Pismo but ran into some problems. I connected my Powerbook to my Cube via a crossover cable and began to copy the System Folder to the Cube. After a few files were transferred, I began to get messages that this extension and that extension could not be

Re: System Folder Backup

2002-04-01 Thread Gary D. Adams
Start the PB up with a system CD. Then you'll have access to all the items in the System folder. Gary Harper, Charlie T wrote: I tried to backup my System Folder on my Pismo but ran into some problems. I connected my Powerbook to my Cube via a crossover cable and began to copy the System

Re: System Folder Backup

2002-04-01 Thread Jeremy Derr
At 12.58 PM -0600 4/1/02, Harper, Charlie T wrote: Start the PB up with a system CD. Then you'll have access to all the items in the System folder. Response: But can I activate File Sharing having started up from the CD? you can't activate it on the machine that's booted to CD.. but you

Re: System Folder Backup

2002-04-01 Thread Gary D. Adams
Yep! That's the solution. I wasn't thinking. Gary Jeremy Derr wrote: At 12.58 PM -0600 4/1/02, Harper, Charlie T wrote: Start the PB up with a system CD. Then you'll have access to all the items in the System folder. Response: But can I activate File Sharing having started up from the

Re: System Folder Backup

2002-04-01 Thread Harper, Charlie T
Thanks guys. What I'm hearing is that I can boot my Pismo from the System CD, look in the Chooser and see my Cube and mount its Hard Drive which should appear on my Pismo's desktop. Then copy the System Folder on my Pismo's hard drive to the Cube's hard drive. Let me know if I have missed

Re: System Folder Backup

2002-04-01 Thread Harper, Charlie T
-Original Message- From: Jeremy Derr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System Folder Backup At 3.05 PM -0600 4/1/02, Harper, Charlie T wrote: Ok, if I am able to see the Cube's HD on the Pismo desktop, can I then drag

Defragmenting my iBook

2002-04-01 Thread Mark D. Chapman
Having observed the conversation about system file backups, I was wondering if I could boot from my install CD, access my 7500 as a server, and then run TechTool Pro on the 7500 to defragment my iBooks hard drive with no ill effects. I tried to make a boot CD to accomplish the same thing.

Re: Power Boy FireWire/USB drive encloser

2002-04-01 Thread Luca Rescigno
Gary D. Adams on 3/25/02 5:07 PM wrote: I've had one for several months, and it's performed flawlessly. I bought a Zip drive from CompGeeks some time back and it had the click of death. I e-mailed them and got an return authorization pretty quickly. They are pretty dependable.

DVD Drive on TiBook exasperation

2002-04-01 Thread Jim Katz
Playing a DVD in my Ti-400 is an iffy, kludgy operation. Any touching of the controls can result in a system freeze, and there are hiccups for no reason once in awhile as well. Any ideas (9.1, 512 meg RAM.) Thanks -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Combo Drive in Lieu of DVD on Ti ...

2002-04-01 Thread Remy Davison
Dear Listessas, Listas - How hard would it be to replace the DVD drive in a PB G4 500 with the ones now standard (?) in the 'new' Ti 550 and 667 ? I have replaced HD, RAM etc. in different PB's and I heard that there are really only two (?) manufacturers for the 'new' Combo drives. How much

Re: System Folder Backup

2002-04-01 Thread Clark Martin
At 11:29 PM -0500 4/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/1/02 5:36:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Backing up System Folders and copies of Applications is needlessly redundant since you already have media with which to reinstall these items. Not redundant. When one has a happy