Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-30 Thread tivo
said: snip snip The tech' comment was that since my other USB devices (Adesso keyboard and printer) were operating, the driver for the external unit was present and the unit's connecting cord or chip were bad. Tivo, were you connecting the thicker of the 2 cables? I found out that if I

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 28, 2004, at 1:08 PM, tivo wrote: The way I understood this was that if you wanted to be able to read a drive or partition that has OS 9 on it (from OS X), you must install the OS 9 disc drivers when you install OS X. You have this backwards. In order to read OS X disks from OS 9, you need

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-29 Thread tivo
The way I understood this was that if you wanted to be able to read a drive or partition that has OS 9 on it (from OS X), you must install the OS 9 disc drivers when you install OS X. You have this backwards. In order to read OS X disks from OS 9, you need to install the OS 9 drivers on

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-29 Thread Hector I Macedo
Hi Tivo, have you tried with Disk Utility and if it recognises the drive? Hector I. Macedo Lord of the Flies Dallas, TX 75248 Piscaro Itaque dicet mendacium -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 29, 2004, at 3:17 PM, tivo wrote: Does Apple System Profiler recognize the drive when it's plugged in? It does not, though the unit light is lit and the drive is spinning. The unit comes with two USB plug in cables split lines. I've tried each in the iBook port, to no avail. Hmmm..if

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-29 Thread tivo
The way I understood this was that if you wanted to be able to read a drive or partition that has OS 9 on it (from OS X), you must install the OS 9 disc drivers when you install OS X. You have this backwards. In order to read OS X disks from OS 9, you need to install the OS 9 drivers on

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-29 Thread Hector I Macedo
said: snip snip The tech' comment was that since my other USB devices (Adesso keyboard and printer) were operating, the driver for the external unit was present and the unit's connecting cord or chip were bad. Tivo, were you connecting the thicker of the 2 cables? I found out that if I

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, March 26, 2004, at 07:13 PM, John Acuff wrote: The way I understood this was that if you wanted to be able to read a drive or partition that has OS 9 on it (from OS X), you must install the OS 9 disc drivers when you install OS X. You have this backwards. In order to read OS X disks

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-28 Thread tivo
The way I understood this was that if you wanted to be able to read a drive or partition that has OS 9 on it (from OS X), you must install the OS 9 disc drivers when you install OS X. You have this backwards. In order to read OS X disks from OS 9, you need to install the OS 9 drivers on

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-27 Thread Andrew Kershaw
You mean to re-initialize the entire hard drive just for one driver? Is it not just possible to install the driver to OS 9 so that it can read this external drive? I've never done the re-initialization and am a bit reticent unless I can't find an easier, simpler way. You shouldn't have to do that.

Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread tivo
Just got a 2.5 enclosure for an old 6GIG HD from my old Pismo. Put it together, successfully installed the driver (at least this is the message that I received), plugged it into a USB port on the iBook G3 900, and I hear the HD spinning in the new enclosure. However, it doesn't appear on the

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread Hector I Macedo
Hi Tivo, do you have OS 10 installed? you can check if it reads it as it does not need any drivers. And then proceed from there to 9 Hector I. Macedo Lord of the Flies Dallas, TX 75248 Piscaro Itaque dicet mendacium -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread tivo
Yes, OSX is my usual OS, but the 6gig was formatted on, I believe, 9.2. My desktop now is OSX, where I thought the icon for the drive would appear, and then when opened it would automatically open to OS9, but it hasn't appeared at all. It didn't appear initially, so that's when I installed the

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread John Acuff
On Mar 26, 2004, at 7:10 PM, tivo wrote: Yes, OSX is my usual OS, but the 6gig was formatted on, I believe, 9.2. My desktop now is OSX, where I thought the icon for the drive would appear, and then when opened it would automatically open to OS9, but it hasn't appeared at all. It didn't appear

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread Hector I Macedo
Tivo, if you don't have anything important on the external driver, you can use Disk Utility to re-initiallise the hardrive and don't forget to include the drivers for OS 9. Hector I. Macedo Lord of the Flies Dallas, TX 75248 Piscaro Itaque dicet

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread tivo
A tiny Installation Manual that came with the enclosure says, If your system is Mac OS 9.0 or above, the system can find the driver directly. But you're saying that the driver doesn't exist on my basic OS9 partition that came with the machine, right? I would think that it would be there, no? I've

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread tivo
Tivo, if you don't have anything important on the external driver, you can use Disk Utility to re-initiallise the hardrive and don't forget to include the drivers for OS 9. You mean to re-initialize the entire hard drive just for one driver? Is it not just possible to install the driver to OS

Re: Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question

2004-03-26 Thread tivo
Does your LaCie drive have OS 9 installed on it, or OS X? Or are you simply using it for data storage? I just use it as a back-up -- for iTunes music that is too bulky to place on CDs for back-up. I've moved all the other info also onto the La Cie, but only as back-up. I lost a 20gig Hitachi

Word Thesaurus and spelling (was Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question)

2004-03-26 Thread P. H. Adams
On Mar 27, 2004, at 5:02 AM, tivo wrote: I do use OS 9 because I'm writing a lengthy document and I prefer Word from Office 2001 to Office X for this because of abilities with Thesaurus and Spelling that were removed with Office X's Word. I'm sorry, but this has me curious. I moved from Office

Re: Word Thesaurus and spelling (was Meritline External Enclosure Help-Question)

2004-03-26 Thread tivo
I mean Thesaurus and Dictionary. The ability to have both accessible at the same time. With 2001 I can keep Thesaurus open and STILL look up a word in the Dictionary. I cannot do this with X. I do use OS 9 because I'm writing a lengthy document and I prefer Word from Office 2001 to Office X