format a Hitachi drive in a firewire case on a Pismo?

2006-01-29 Thread kaldav
Hello, I have bought a new Hitachi drive for my Pismo (listed as compatible on OWC) and put it in an external Sarotech firewire case. However, it doesn't show up with Disk Utility in OSX10.3.9. Then I re-started from a 10.3.2 installer CD, twice by holding down the C key, and it is not seen

Pismo battery revival?

2006-01-29 Thread kaldav
Hello, I had a Pismo battery that showed four green lights when the button on the side was pushed. I let it sit for a few weeks without power and now only one battery light blinks green. Is the battery dead and can I revive it somehow? Thanks. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Pismo battery revival?

2006-01-29 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Hello, I had a Pismo battery that showed four green lights when the button on the side was pushed. I let it sit for a few weeks without power and now only one battery light blinks green. Is the battery dead and can I revive it somehow? The blinking light means it is flat. Getting to 4

Re: format a Hitachi drive in a firewire case on a Pismo?

2006-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/01/06 08:17, kaldav at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have bought a new Hitachi drive for my Pismo (listed as compatible on OWC) and put it in an external Sarotech firewire case. However, it doesn't show up with Disk Utility in OSX10.3.9. Then I re-started from a 10.3.2 installer

Re: format a Hitachi drive in a firewire case on a Pismo?

2006-01-29 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:17 AM, kaldav wrote: I have bought a new Hitachi drive for my Pismo (listed as compatible on OWC) and put it in an external Sarotech firewire case. However, it doesn't show up with Disk Utility in OSX10.3.9. Then I re-started from a 10.3.2 installer CD, twice by

Re: format a Hitachi drive in a firewire case on a Pismo?

2006-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/01/06 12:30, Fabian Fang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:17 AM, kaldav wrote: I have bought a new Hitachi drive for my Pismo (listed as compatible on OWC) and put it in an external Sarotech firewire case. However, it doesn't show up with Disk Utility in OSX10.3.9.

Re: Lombard won't boot

2006-01-29 Thread Caleb Cupples
On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:17, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 28/01/06 21:28, Caleb Cupples at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear listers, I restarted my Lombard after all the iApps quit working on my Lombard, and now it's not booting. By iApps, I mean Safari, Mail and iChat, but I digress.

Re: i-pod ???

2006-01-29 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Jan 28, 2006, at 3:46 PM, sandra ragan wrote: the full size and the nano are really your best options as all else (except the shuffle) are discontinued. We have a mini and a nano... the mini is bw and doesn't do photos. I disagree. His best option would be a previous generation ipod

Re: Lombard won't boot

2006-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/01/06 14:33, Caleb Cupples at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:17, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 28/01/06 21:28, Caleb Cupples at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear listers, I restarted my Lombard after all the iApps quit working on my Lombard, and now it's not booting. By

Re: i-pod ???

2006-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/29/06 2:44 PM, Dylan McDermond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2006, at 3:46 PM, sandra ragan wrote: the full size and the nano are really your best options as all else (except the shuffle) are discontinued. We have a mini and a nano... the mini is bw and doesn't do photos. I

Re: i-pod ???

2006-01-29 Thread Caleb Cupples
On Sunday 29 January 2006 14:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/29/06 2:44 PM, Dylan McDermond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2006, at 3:46 PM, sandra ragan wrote: the full size and the nano are really your best options as all else (except the shuffle) are discontinued. We have a mini

Re: Lombard won't boot

2006-01-29 Thread Tim
On Jan 29, 2006, at 12:16 AM, David Rodriguez wrote: Caleb, Here's what to try. Follow carefully. Learned this from someone who knows. Have you tried fsck method? What you want to do is shut down or restart, hold down the Command and S key. You will then get a bunch of text scrolling

Re: Lombard won't boot

2006-01-29 Thread Caleb Cupples
On Sunday 29 January 2006 14:33, Tim wrote: Great idea Also, I'm not sure if you are a victim of the Lombard issue with OS X that I am :)) but to get it to start I have to push the small reset button on the back of my Lombard before every start up. Works every time Tim, if

Re: Lombard won't boot

2006-01-29 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jan 29, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: Does anyone know of any good wireless cards that work with 9, since my Aria Extreme doesn't work with OS 9. I'm needing a good wireless fix, since my budget prevents me from going back X, unless I go back to Jaguar, and I don't want to go

Re: bad pixel counts and Applecare

2006-01-29 Thread Dan K
Hi G-Books, you wrote: Amber Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: I was just wondered if anybody has had Apple authorize this before - how many bad pixels do you normally have to have for them to approve a complete screen replacement ? I read this somewhere on the web . . . [quote] ...a certain number

Re: Lombard won't boot

2006-01-29 Thread David Rodriguez
Tim, What I grew to realize with my Lombard with the bad cache is that it's just much better and easier on the book to let it sleep overnight rather then shut down. While the reset was no real hassle, allowing it to sleep is easier on the power switch anyhow, bad cache or not.So

Pismo hanging

2006-01-29 Thread Tannis Baker
I just bought some new memory (upgrading to 768 from 512 mg) and a combo drive for my G3 Pismo operating 9.2.2. My relatively computer saavy and I installed it ourselves using the laptop's owner's manual - and all seemed to go well. The combo came with a variety of drivers for pismos operating

Re: Lombard won't boot.

2006-01-29 Thread Caleb Cupples
Well, I've got my problem fixed, so thanks for all the advice. I'm going to order a new copy of Jaguar from OWC, or, if I can convince my DVD drive to read the Panther recovery DVD I have lying around, I'll install that. It took three tries to get my 9 CD to boot on my machine, so I think my

Re: i-pod ???

2006-01-29 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Jan 29, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: I actually have a 30 gig video iPod that I synced using the stock USB ports on my Lombard, quite well. Of course, I only keep a little over a gig and a half on it, so it's not bad. It works, slowly, but it gets the job done. Yikes! If