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 an

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, La

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: >> >>> >>> T

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 di

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 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 dri

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

2005-01-05 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 05/01/05 13:55, "David Bjur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I learned the hard way: I partitioned the drive and > formatted with the Disk Utility from OS X.3, but then found I was > unable to mount the partitions in OS 9. I was able to boot into OS 9 > with a firewire drive (my old int

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: