Hal, and others: BULLETIN: I see that googlegear.com is today offering the IBM/Hitachi 40GB Travelstar 40GNX for $138 with FREE 2 day shipping.
I received yesterday the USB2 housing for 2.5" hard drives (Triumph Technologies, model ME-910U2). Here are my notes and observations. I was able to mount a disk from this enclosure under OS 10.2.4 on my Pismo and, after disabling non-system extensions, was able to mount it under OS 9.2.2 as well, though it kept disabling my USB mouse. I was unable to get my Pismo to boot into OS 9.2.2 from the drive, and didn't want to wait an hour for OS X to clone over the slow-Apple USB 1.1 interface. However, I did mount it with a G3 iMac DV under OS 9.2, and successfully booted that iMac from it! When I tried the ME-910U2 enclosure on an original bondi-blue iMac under OS 8.6, however, it would not mount the drive and froze up the system, requiring a forcible re-boot. The enclosure mounts and works well on a G3-equipped PowerMac 7200 under Mac OS 8.6, having a 3-slot USB PCI card. However, after loading the OS 8.6 system folder onto the drive, I was unable to boot from the enclosure. I also noted that on this PowerMac, Drive Setup did not recognize the drive and was unable to format it. To summarize, for this ME-910U2 (USB2/1.1) enclosure, containing a 2.5" Fujitsu 12.7mm high 2.1 GB notebook hard drive, formatted to MacOS Extended by the Pismo under Jaguar: MACINTOSH MODEL OS MOUNTS? BOOTABLE? iMac (Bondi Blue) 8.6 No No Powerbook (Pismo) 9.2.2 Yes No Powerbook (Pismo) 10.2.4 Yes ? iMac DV 400MHz 9.2.2 Yes Yes PowerMac 7200* 8.6 Yes No *equipped with Sonnet Crescendo 7200 G3/400Mhz. I hope this helps someone. --Jim. I previously wrote: > Subject: RE: Hard drives (ME-910U2F) > > Hal, and others: > > Today I tried booting my Pismo with the ME-910U2F via the USB port > (that's the combination Firewire/USB2 housing). I was unable to > persuade the Pismo to boot via USB. I did successfully boot via the > Firewire port on this same housing, into both OS 9 and OS X, as > previously noted. Thus, I do not expect that the ME-910U2 (the dual > USB2 enclosure), nor the ME-911U (the differently-styled USB1.1 > enclosure) would be bootable on my Pismo either, nor on the 7200 I > previously mentioned. They may be able to mount the drives; however, > I don't know yet. > > --Jim. > > Jim wrote: >> However, for sure the firewire enclosure is bootable from a Pismo, if >> you have a suitable system on it. This is why I was so happy. That >> it works via USB is gravy. >> >> I have not yet tried this enclosure by USB connection to an >> accelerated PowerMac 7200 system running MacOS 8.6, but will do so in >> a week's time (the 7200 has a USB PCI card also). All sales >> literature suggests that it will work. I will report my experience >> in due course. >> >> Hal wrote: >>> Are these enclosures bootable on the Mac? I've found that finding a >>> bootable firewire enclosure (even with Oxford 911) is hit-and-miss. >>> >>>> On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Jim wrote: >>>>> Jeff wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I picked up a refurb 20GB IBM model 40GNX from >>>>> consumerdepot.com for just $69 this week. >>>> >>>> Jeff, that's a wonderful price! Might I also suggest you investigate >>>> the external housing options by triumph technologies, for your >>>> surplus >>>> drive? (specifically, the model me-910 series) They make dual USB2, >>>> dual Firewire, and combo USB2/firewire enclosures, which ARE Mac >>>> compatible (and use the oxford 911 bridge for the firewire part). >>>> The >>>> USB2 is of course backwards compatible to USB 1.1. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
