Re: drive size on 3400

2002-12-18 Thread Tim Allen
Hey all I'm looking for a new HD for my 3400 but Not sure if there is a drive size limit. Can I go over the 8gig drive in it now? Thanks Gary -- Gary, try the following link for more info: http://www.insanely-great.com/features/020121.html As far as I know you can put anything you like in

Re: drive size on 3400

2002-12-18 Thread Gary E Davis
Thanks Tim But I'm afraid the unit it toast About a month ago I goofed forgetting the battery wasn't in place I pulled the AC cord while the 3400 was running. Doing this fried something. I thought maybe the power supply board and got a new one but no go its still quite dead. Thanks anyway Gary

Re: Unix desperation - do I need a bigger HD?

2002-12-18 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2002-12-17 22:42, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another poster suggested this (and mentioned a US$99 price(?)): That would be me. http://www.caldrives.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PRODStore_Code=Cald rivesProduct_Code=CHB25-INT It's obviously the same Century adapter but as listed

Re: drive size on 3400

2002-12-18 Thread Roger Volk
Gary, As long as you don't use the machine in SSCI disk mode drive size is no problem, if you use SSCI disk mode with a drive size over 3 GB your data may get corrupted, This is a known problem with no work around, it's in the firmware stored on the ROM. Roger Gary E Davis wrote: Hey all

Re: Boot PB1400 on floppy

2002-12-18 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 17/12/02 23:00, Tom Lisa P at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to boot a PB1400 using the floppy drive ? Yes The 1400s shipping with a disc tools disc. Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic www.pbfanatic.co.uk -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: 5300 screen questions

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Kershaw
The funky, neat-o, disco-esque shimmer effect is caused by your display trying to draw more colors than either it supports natively (shouldn't be an issue with an active matrix display) or trying to draw colors that aren't in the system palette. I suspect that your problem stems from the

Re: 5300 screen questions

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Smith
-Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Kershaw Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:05 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: 5300 screen questions snip I'm in the midst of a project to upgrade the VRAM on my 5300cs motherboard from 512KB to 1024KB.

Re: 5300 screen questions

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Kershaw
It's not immediately obvious where the problem lies - except for a missing 8MB RAM on the cs motherboard, the ce and cs variants now look pretty darn similar Check the configuration resistors, I would bet that they are in different positions, you will need to check a small section at a time to

Re: 5300 screen questions

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Smith
-Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Kershaw Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:26 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: 5300 screen questions It's not immediately obvious where the problem lies - except for a missing 8MB RAM on the cs

Re: Recording on 3400

2002-12-18 Thread Clae
From: Midgar-Survivor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recording on 3400 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:28:32 -0500 Anyway, anyone know what are some good recording software packages that will run on a 3400(180mhz) with 144MB ram? On the cheap? You could try Macromedia Deck II - I was getting 8 channels

Re: 5300 screen questions

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Kershaw
If they are all the same (same value AND location) then it may be hard-coded in the ROM, the only way of checking for certain would be to change the ROM chips over. Ben. NB there is a utility called GetRom used to make ROM images for emulators, run this on both boards and compare the output files,

Re: More thoughts on the PB170 HD ( Unix desperation/bigger HD)

2002-12-18 Thread Dan K
On 12/18/02 Joost van de Griek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2002-12-17 19:44, Mycroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...are the hard drives in the powerbooks just standard SCSI drives, or should I be looking for specifically a notebook drive? You do need to be looking for a notebook drive, 2.5

Re: Boot PB1400 on floppy

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Amato
Absolutely. I have one and I do. If you remember the os checks the floppy drive first to see if it has a startup disk. One way to check is to remember that Norton Utilites (and others) need a bootable disk to perform certain operations. The Earlier Norton had a program to make a bootable disk

Re: PB 5300/190 - configuring Ethernet PCMCIA for DHCP under OS8 .6?

2002-12-18 Thread Barclay Thomas M
Thank you for your note, Bruce. I suspect that you are correct; in the OS upgrade (8.1 to 8.6) and re-installation of the Dayna CommuniCard driver, I've gotten some things tangled and misplaced. We've also noticed a need for a sequenced shut-down and restart of our dsl modem and router to get

Re: PB 5300/190 - configuring Ethernet PCMCIA for DHCP under OS 8 .6?

2002-12-18 Thread Bruce Guthrie
Dang sorry none out there. I sold my 5300 weeks ago, but had the same setup so I have given you all I could as info. Sorry. Bruce On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 01:58 PM, Barclay Thomas M wrote: Thank you for your note, Bruce. I suspect that you are correct; in the OS upgrade (8.1

test

2002-12-18 Thread victoria.duggan
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Recording on PB520

2002-12-18 Thread Arlis R Tyner
When I try to record on my 520 all I get is a screeching noise, no matter what combination of settings I try. The first time I used it it worked ok, but when I started experimenting with the settings, I got this screeching noise. Any suggestions? Thanks Arlis

Re: test

2002-12-18 Thread victoria
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Re: 5300 screen questions

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Lisa P
If they are all the same (same value AND location) then it may be hard-coded in the ROM, the only way of checking for certain would be to change the ROM chips over. Ben. NB there is a utility called GetRom used to make ROM images for emulators, run this on both boards and compare the output

Re: Unix desperation - do I need a bigger HD?

2002-12-18 Thread mac
Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (I, Dana, wrote:) I bet MacMinix (*) would work. I haven't used it. It's very small-- with source code, 8 floppies-- and you don't even need a hard drive! I think it runs in a MacOS window, so the video should be handled automatically. You'll

Re: Unix desperation - do I need a bigger HD?

2002-12-18 Thread mac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I restarted my Duo with MacOS 7.1, set 24-bit addressing and restarted, and MacMinix seems to do well. It has a much more complete set of commands (programs) out of the box, and seems nicely Unixy. Heh. Following up to myself... One strange thing about my Minix