Re: Upgrading Hard Disk + OS 9 and OS X partition anecdote

2005-01-06 Thread Mikael Byström
I make it a point to not install OS 9 drivers. The few apps I use are the 4D 6.8 compiler and Loop app Infinity, which can run under Classic. Besides those there is nothing I need in OS 9 and I don't want to waste my time there. I even turn down support for OS 9 problems as I can't be bothered

Upgrading Hard Disk

2005-01-05 Thread goodidea
I would like to upgrade the hard disk on my keylime clamshell, G3 466mhz model. This is a tricky operation and any advise is welcome from someone who has done this before. First question I have is: where do I find a 40Gb disk and which one should I get? thanks, Boudie On 22-dec-04, at 22:07,

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk

2005-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/5/05 5:29 AM, goodidea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to upgrade the hard disk on my keylime clamshell, G3 466mhz model. This is a tricky operation and any advise is welcome from someone who has done this before. First question I have is: where do I find a 40Gb disk and which one

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk

2005-01-05 Thread Katherine Zysk
I would like to upgrade the hard disk on my keylime clamshell, G3 466mhz model. This is a tricky operation and any advise is welcome from someone who has done this before. First question I have is: where do I find a 40Gb disk and which one should I get? thanks, Boudie On 22-dec-04, at

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk

2005-01-05 Thread Peter Apockotos
On Jan 5, 2005, at 7:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/05 5:29 AM, goodidea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to upgrade the hard disk on my keylime clamshell, G3 466mhz model. This is a tricky operation and any advise is welcome from someone who has done this before. First

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk

2005-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/5/05 8:17 AM, Peter Apockotos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally think Apple should make their portable line as easy to upgrade as the new iMac! I have all sorts of wishes but Apple doesn't listen to me - and with good reason since I'm not an engineer. A question was asked. I

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk

2005-01-05 Thread goodidea
David, thank you so much for the URL and good advise and I don't mind Peter speaking his mind either :) Looking at the number of actions needed to get to the HardDisk I'm not surprised... I still like to ask if someone knows for sure which hard disk I can install, 40GB 5400rpm in a clamshell g3

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk + OS 9 and OS X partition anecdote

2005-01-05 Thread David Bjur
I just upgraded my Pismo (G3 400mhz) with a Hitatchi 60 gig 7200 rpm disk from OWC. Here is a link: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ I'm very pleased with the drive: faster, quieter than the original. The staff at OWC were very helpful. One thing I learned the hard way:

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk + OS 9 and OS X partition anecdote

2005-01-05 Thread David Bjur
Unfortunately that option was not available in my instance. Perhaps because I was using a DVD OS X install disk? On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: That's probably because when you formatted the drive with Disk Utility from 10.3, you didn't check the option to have the OS 9

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk + OS 9 and OS X partition anecdote

2005-01-05 Thread Al Poulin
Sorry to see this tale. But it has been told before in these lists. I had good results in the Disk Utility/Partition panel by checking the little box at: Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers If this option is not selected, this device cannot be used by a computer running Mac OS 9. This option does

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk + OS 9 and OS X partition anecdote

2005-01-05 Thread Clark Martin
At 2:40 PM -0800 1/5/05, David Bjur wrote: Unfortunately that option was not available in my instance. Perhaps because I was using a DVD OS X install disk? On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: That's probably because when you formatted the drive with Disk Utility from 10.3, you

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk + OS 9 and OS X partition anecdote

2005-01-05 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 05/01/05 20:20, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:40 PM -0800 1/5/05, David Bjur wrote: Unfortunately that option was not available in my instance. Perhaps because I was using a DVD OS X install disk? On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: That's probably

Re: Upgrading Hard Disk + OS 9 and OS X partition anecdote

2005-01-05 Thread David Bjur
On Jan 5, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 05/01/05 20:20, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:40 PM -0800 1/5/05, David Bjur wrote: Unfortunately that option was not available in my instance. Perhaps because I was using a DVD OS X install disk? On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:05 PM,