Re: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives

2003-03-18 Thread Harbourmaster
Well, all I can say is that Apple has got it wrong. I can, and have, low-level formatted my hard drive. Then, when 'initialise' is selected, the program shows Performing Low-Level-Format for a while (time shown varies, depending on size of Hard Drive), then it goes on to zero-all data (if it's

PB 1400 + USB?

2003-03-18 Thread Richard Skipp
Hi All, The Question: Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? I'm planning a trip overseas and need it so that I can connect a SONY Memory card reader and download photos. Any ideas? Experience? Thanks, Richard -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: OK, so why doesn't my MV16/EN work?

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew Kershaw
5300cs, OS 8.6, 48 MB RAM, MV16/EN with latest driver Just out of curiousity, Josh, what is your driver version? I looked around, and my version 1.0.2 seems quite old! There's a 1.0.4 and a 2.0, at least. Google, as fantastic as it is, can't seem to find much else, including download

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

2003-03-18 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 18/03/03 19:24, Richard Skipp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? I'm planning a trip overseas and need it so that I can connect a SONY Memory card reader and download photos. Any ideas? Experience? Can't be done, so I have

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

2003-03-18 Thread Tobias Strohe
Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? I'm planning a trip overseas and need it so that I can connect a SONY Memory card reader and download photos. Any ideas? Experience? Can't be done, so I have heard. Think all USB PC cards require Cardbus with the

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

2003-03-18 Thread Richard Skipp
Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? I'm planning a trip overseas and need it so that I can connect a SONY Memory card reader and download photos. Any ideas? Experience? ...for your purposes: just use a PC Card Adapter like this one:

Re: OK, so why doesn't my MV16/EN work?

2003-03-18 Thread Dan K
Drew wrote: I looked around, and my version 1.0.2 seems quite old! There's a 1.0.4 and a 2.0, at least. Google, as fantastic as it is, can't seem to find much else, including download locations. I would love a copy of both, if anyone out here has either version... A disk image of the

Re: External cdrom drive

2003-03-18 Thread THE ROCK
I bought one off ebay yesterday and I believe the whole package, including shipping, was a better deal than the one on swap list. Now that's a first. Peter. Bruce Johnson wrote: THE ROCK wrote: Ah. My bad. Peter. Bruce Johnson wrote: THE ROCK wrote: Yes it did need drivers. I

Re: OK, so why doesn't my MV16/EN work?

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew Kershaw
http://www.focusinfo.com/support/drivers/MV16%20Updater%202.0.sea.bin Includes both the 1.04 installer and the 2.0 beta Dan K Oh sheesh... It _would_ make sense to look at Focus's website, wouldn't it? Sometimes I can be pretty daft. Thanks for the URL! Peace, Drew -- Author of

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

2003-03-18 Thread Jason White
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:24:49 -0800 Subject: PB 1400 + USB? Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? I'm planning a trip overseas and need it so that I can connect a SONY Memory card reader and download photos. Any ideas? Experience? Someone already pointed out

Re: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives

2003-03-18 Thread k
Well John, what is actually happening is that the utility is simply writing Zero's to the drive. Although it looks like it's doing a LLF it's simply not possible. -- Aloha, Ken so if you do the LLF without writing zeros it would requier no time at all ? k -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

2003-03-18 Thread Winston Smith
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 06:09 PM, Jason White wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:24:49 -0800 Subject: PB 1400 + USB? Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? I'm planning a trip overseas and need it so that I can connect a SONY Memory card reader and

Re: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew Kershaw
so if you do the LLF without writing zeros it would requier no time at all ? k Well, close to no time. It will still re-initialize the disk. And if you've selected a different partitioning scheme or changed from HFS to HFS+ (or HFS+ to HFS), it will take a few seconds. But it won't take

Re: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives

2003-03-18 Thread k
so if you do the LLF without writing zeros it would requier no time at all ? k Well, close to no time. It will still re-initialize the disk. And if you've selected a different partitioning scheme or changed from HFS to HFS+ (or HFS+ to HFS), it will take a few seconds. But it won't take

Re: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives

2003-03-18 Thread k
so if you do the LLF without writing zeros it would requier no time at all ? k Well, close to no time. It will still re-initialize the disk. And if you've selected a different partitioning scheme or changed from HFS to HFS+ (or HFS+ to HFS), it will take a few seconds. But it won't take

Re: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives

2003-03-18 Thread Scott Holder
At 04:29 AM 3/19/2003 +0100, you wrote: i even put a PC ide disk in my mac and formatted it to macintosh format, does that mean that the IDE structure is the same for mac and PC ??? i quoted myself ! kenta IDE is IDE is IDE, whether it's on a Mac, a PC, or an Atari 8-bit. What differs is the

Re: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives

2003-03-18 Thread John Smith
Well, close to no time. It will still re-initialize the disk. And if you've selected a different partitioning scheme or changed from HFS to HFS+ (or HFS+ to HFS), it will take a few seconds. But it won't take anything like the several minutes to hours it can take to write zeros to a

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

2003-03-18 Thread John Cate
Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? No, it's not possible to support USB on a 1400. USB is a 32-bit only protocol, which means to support USB on a PC Card, the card must be CardBus-capable. Unfortunately, the hacks to support CardBus on the 2400, 3400 and 3500