Re: 1400 with scsi zip drive

2003-03-07 Thread Heero Miketta
Sometimes it´s a problem with file sharing. Did you activate it? Without, my zip won´t work... My zip drive came with drivers on a CD-ROM. Did you install??? Good luck! Heero "Matthew White" (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) hatte am 08.03.2003 1:51 Uhr geschrieben: > Hi, > > I need help. I have 1400

Re: Clearing up an old arguement....

2003-03-07 Thread Dan Palka
>Are you guys sure you didn't do it via an Ethernet connection? Yes I'm quite sure. Mostly because there is no ethernet port on the PowerBook 190. Not even an AAUI or whatever that crazy little apple slot style ethernet port. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Sm

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread Dan Palka
>No. The link posted talks about I/O errors on the powerbook connected >as disk mode. Moreover, the error only occurs when you try to read or >write *beyond* the 4GB limit. I know this because as I read the link >this morning. I was *successfully* installing OS 8.6 on a Powerbook >5300 with a 4

Re: Is there a song or music writing program for 68K powerbook

2003-03-07 Thread Tom W.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Tom - Original Message - From: "Grizzly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Is there a song or music writing program for 68K powerbook > Tom Wilkinson wrote: > > > > My daughte

Re: Fix for broken adaptor plug-in? and some other things......

2003-03-07 Thread Dan K
Murali wrote: >> Hello All, >> I'm new to the list and I'm trying to bring my wife's 5300 back to a >> usable life. There are two major considerations (and one minor): >> 1. the AC adaptor socket on the circuit board is loose. I have >> repaired this twice before; disassembling the 5300 and r

Re: Clearing up an old arguement....

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 07:09 PM, Dan Palka wrote: > Thats strange I do it all the time as well... I think. > > Theres really no OTHER way I got the system software and games onto > this > powerbook other than that. > >>> I remember awhile back I got into a heated discussion w/ a fellow >

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread Dan Palka
> Well, least no more surprises I hope. Heh you have no idea how aggrivating it is to know that all of my problems over the last week could have been avoided. Just last night I was using SCSI disk mode on this thing and again it was giving me problems. When I read that article I thought

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 04:43 PM, palkasoft wrote: > Uh oh... > > I deleted the first post of this email because it didn't seem to really > concern me and I wanted to keep my inbox clean. > > However its beginning to sound like it might explain my last week of > terror between my Quadra 800

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread jimwg
>Subject: Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users >Date: Fri, 7 Mar 03 17:43:42 -0600 >From: palkasoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Uh oh... >I deleted the first post of this email because it didn't seem to really >concern me and I wanted to keep my inbox clean. > >However its beginning to sound like it mi

Re: Clearing up an old arguement....

2003-03-07 Thread R. P. Bell
Are you guys sure you didn't do it via an Ethernet connection? rb = Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Dan Palka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: Re: Clearing up an old arguement

Re: Clearing up an old arguement....

2003-03-07 Thread Dan Palka
Thats strange I do it all the time as well... I think. Theres really no OTHER way I got the system software and games onto this powerbook other than that. >>I remember awhile back I got into a heated discussion w/ a fellow member, who >>SWORE that it was not possible to install software on a po

Re: 1400 with scsi zip drive

2003-03-07 Thread KADaggett
My Reply follows quote. On 07/03/2003 16:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew White) >Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hi, > >I need help. I have 1400. 1 have a zip drive. I have a problem. > >The 1400 is not seeing t

1400 with scsi zip drive

2003-03-07 Thread Matthew White
Hi, I need help. I have 1400. 1 have a zip drive. I have a problem. The 1400 is not seeing the zip drive or mounting the zips to the desktop. I loaded the extension and control panel from a 8.1 disk. I just got one of those powerbook scsi adapters of ebay. The zip drive works because use it with

Re: PB Duo 280c

2003-03-07 Thread Paul Nelson
At 6:38 PM -0600 3/6/03, palkasoft wrote: >>I was thinking about trying to replace the hd. So I would like to know >>if there are any logical upper limit on the disk size and if so, what >>might that limit be? > >I might be wrong in saying this, but the Duo's need those thinner hard >drives, so I w

Re: Clearing up an old arguement....

2003-03-07 Thread Paul Nelson
At 7:56 AM -0500 3/7/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I remember awhile back I got into a heated discussion w/ a fellow member, who >SWORE that it was not possible to install software on a powerbook in SCSI >Disk Mode off a CD from a desktop. I told her I did it all the time; she told >me I was lying.

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread John Smith
On 8/3/03 10:43 AM, "palkasoft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uh oh... > > I deleted the first post of this email because it didn't seem to really > concern me and I wanted to keep my inbox clean. > > However its beginning to sound like it might explain my last week of > terror between my Quadra

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread palkasoft
Uh oh... I deleted the first post of this email because it didn't seem to really concern me and I wanted to keep my inbox clean. However its beginning to sound like it might explain my last week of terror between my Quadra 800 and PowerBook 190 which has a 5gb IDE hard drive in it. Ive been s

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread John Smith
> > Thanks, but you all are the experts! Can you instruct a rank > amateur PB user how to switch off SCSI mode on his PB 190? Does this > bug affect one's file sharing in any way? > I was also wondering whether after all this time since 1998 > if some sharp Mac hacker hasn't conjured up some solut

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread jimwg
>From: Roger Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users >Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:07:30 -0500 >To: " (PowerBooks)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Jim, > > I have 6 gB drives installed in my 3400's and have no problems because >i don't use the machines in SCISI disk mode an

Re: Pram Battery for 1400c

2003-03-07 Thread Dan K
On 3/7/03 David Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The PRAM module is user replaceable by anyone who is careful. >The Apple part number is: "Backup Battery, 922-2429". The replacements >that I picked up for my 1400s didn't have any numbers on them, but they >matched those at: >

Re: Fix for broken adaptor plug-in? and some other things......

2003-03-07 Thread Tom & Lisa P
>Murali wrote: >> Hello All, >> I'm new to the list and I'm trying to bring my wife's 5300 back to a >> usable life. There are two major considerations (and one minor): >> 1. the AC adaptor socket on the circuit board is loose. I have >> repaired this twice before; disassembling the 5300 an

Re: Rebuild 3400c - 8.6 or 9?

2003-03-07 Thread Ken Strayhorn
> >I have OS 9.1 on my 3400 and it's fine. It's been very stable. Check >>your apps and make sure you're not going to break anything going to OS 9 >>but otherwise you might as well. >> >>I would reformat using Extended since you're right there anyway. > >but it will be slower - not much - but it

Re: Rebuild 3400c - 8.6 or 9?

2003-03-07 Thread k
>I have OS 9.1 on my 3400 and it's fine. It's been very stable. Check >your apps and make sure you're not going to break anything going to OS 9 >but otherwise you might as well. > >I would reformat using Extended since you're right there anyway. but it will be slower - not much - but it depends

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread Roger Volk
Jim, I have 6 gB drives installed in my 3400's and have no problems because i don't use the machines in SCISI disk mode and thats the only mode that you have data scrambling problems. Roger jimwg wrote: > Greetings: > > Mac Mavens: Please, your input on this alert that I'd no idea >

Re: PB Duo 280c

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
Fredrik Rundgren wrote: > Hi list. > > Got my first Mac a few weeks ago. > Found a guy trying to get rid of(in the trash) his PB Duo 280c w. Duo > Dock II. No cables or periphials though and just minimal OS (8.1) > installed on HD but hey it was for free. :) My web server is named Oscar for that

Re: Fix for broken adaptor plug-in? and some other things......

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
Murali wrote: > Hello All, > I'm new to the list and I'm trying to bring my wife's 5300 back to a > usable life. There are two major considerations (and one minor): > 1.the AC adaptor socket on the circuit board is loose. I have > repaired this twice before; disassembling the 5300 and resol

Re: Disassembling a 3400

2003-03-07 Thread k
> > >Does anyone know if any other 'books share their keyboards with the 3400? 2400 seems almost identitical ? k -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

2003-03-07 Thread Robert Eye
Card compatability has to do with making a boot disk from the card, as opposed to using it for Virtual Memory (the card is used more as a solid-state HD than RAM). I don't recall that anyone ever posted a problem with any brand of Compact Flash card for VM, but I and others posted some problems

Re: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 07/03/03 15:44, jimwg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ]> Mac Mavens: Please, your input on this alert that I'd no idea > of at > http://eshop.macsales.com/Descriptions/Specs/applepbhdtechnote.pdf. > Your recommendations of what to do if you've already bought your > drives! Don't run your old Powe

Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users

2003-03-07 Thread jimwg
Greetings: Mac Mavens: Please, your input on this alert that I'd no idea of at http://eshop.macsales.com/Descriptions/Specs/applepbhdtechnote.pdf. Your recommendations of what to do if you've already bought your drives! Thank you, JimWG -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: PB Duo 280c

2003-03-07 Thread Nick
Well, finding any harddrive the with the size of 2TB's would be very hard, ESP. in a 2.5 SCSI!!! :) Nick - Original Message - From: "Joost van de Griek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: Re: PB Duo 280c > On 2

Re: Disassembling a 3400

2003-03-07 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2003-03-05 13:20, "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if any other 'books share their keyboards with the 3400? It's not a 'Book, but the Twentieth Anniversary Mac used the same keyboard as the PowerBook 3400C. ,xtG .tsooJ -- Nomen dominii habeo, ergo sum. -- Joost van de Gr

Re: PB Duo 280c

2003-03-07 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2003-03-07 00:15, "Fredrik Rundgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking about trying to replace the hd. So I would like to know > if there are any logical upper limit on the disk size and if so, what > might that limit be? 2 TB. Good luck finding a 2.5" SCSI HD that big. :-P ,xtG .ts

Clearing up an old arguement....

2003-03-07 Thread COCCORP
Hello listers, I remember awhile back I got into a heated discussion w/ a fellow member, who SWORE that it was not possible to install software on a powerbook in SCSI Disk Mode off a CD from a desktop. I told her I did it all the time; she told me I was lying..! :-? Anyway, I was just instal

Re: Disassembling a 3400

2003-03-07 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 05/03/03 12:20, Adam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know if any other 'books share their keyboards with the 3400? IIRC the 5300/190 use the same keyboard as a 3400 Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic www.pbfanatic.co.uk MSN Messenger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 4