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

Regarding the various posts concerning: OK, so why doesn't my MV16/EN work? I have tried the MV16/EN card for video and ethernet on a powerbook 5300cs running system 8.6, 48 mb ram and the card did NOT work for me with any drivers I found- version 1 or version 2. Focus said the product was discon

Dead PB 150?

Howdy, Just obtained a PB 150 that does not power-up. It has not been used in a few years (was surplus from a local school district). At first, I thought it was the power supply, but when this same unit worked on my Portable, I knew that the cause must lay elsewhere. I opened the unit and found a 2

Re: Dead PB 150?

Robert That battery is the pram battery and if it is dead has everything to do with the computer not starting up, one of the things you can try is leave the PB plugged into AC for a day or so and then try a startup or you can just replace the battery as it may no longer hold a charge. Roger

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

>(aside from this list) not generally >known to damage the drive. This is a false assertion. It IS generally known. Do a google search and see for yourself. Search for "Low Level Format IDE drive." Heck, the first hit is from Seagate. I think they know a thing or two about hard drives. >I

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

>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 ??? > > >IDE is IDE is IDE, whether it's on a Mac, a PC, or an Atari 8-bit. What >differs is the filesystem form

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

> >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 t

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

> >>If apple knows all this, why is drive setup >>(capable of LLF) still included with new Macs, even though they all use ATA >>drives? > >They don't. That's my point. My OS 9.x will NOT allow an LLF of an >IDE hard drive. Nor would my 8.6. I don't know why this is >happening in your setup (yes

Re: Dead PB 150?

I don't have a 150, but do own a pair if 165c's with dead batteries. They will boot up fine with no battery installed, but die immediatly when I plug in a battery. Have to get on ebay and look for at least one good batt. Rick >Howdy, >Just obtained a PB 150 that does not power-up. It has >not

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

>but it did take a long time to low level 40 gb. very long in fact. >kenta Well, all I could think of is this: maybe drive setup is testing the drive (same as would happen when you choose "test drive" from the menu). It's looking for bad blocks. Perhaps you're lucky and it has never found an

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

Sorry to contribute to the Thread that Won't Die. > I don't know why it does this. All I know is that you've gotten > lucky and haven't toasted your hard drive yet. I don't know the > inner workings of Drive Setup, so it may actually be testing your > hard drive, but not actually finishing t

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

** > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:07:25 -0800 > Subject: Re: PB 1400 + USB? > From: Richard Skipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Neat! I didn't know about these. I was reading about Compact Flash card > readers as well at the Low-End Mac site being used as Virtual memory. Can > Sony's memory cards be

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

On 20/3/03 6:14 AM, "Brian McEwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry to contribute to the Thread that Won't Die. That's ok. I've decided to just give up on this thread, it just isn't interesting me anymore. When people tell me what I'm doing and have been doing with no problems at all for yea

68k Wireless Qs with no As

My PowerBook 190cs is fully wireless (YAY!) thanks to the Proxim Orinoco card. On thing I'd like to figure out is what my signal strength is at certain locations. Is there any software for this for the 68k PowerBooks? That would be really nifty. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: 68k Wireless Qs with no As

Dan Palka wrote: > My PowerBook 190cs is fully wireless (YAY!) thanks to the Proxim Orinoco > card. > > On thing I'd like to figure out is what my signal strength is at certain > locations. > > Is there any software for this for the 68k PowerBooks? That would be > really nifty. > Ummm...th

Re: 68k Wireless Qs with no As

There is no Orinoco control panel, nor is there an Orinoco CSM. Because the PowerBook 190 is 68k, the WaveLAN drivers are what is installed on my computer. The WaveLAN 6.0 drivers are what I have installed, the last version supported by 68k. They didnt come with any type of signal strength m

Need drivers for APS CDROM drive for my 540c

I have a APS 24x CD-ROM and I need the powertools software that came with the drive so i can use the drive. If anyone has this could you please email it to me. I have a cable modem so it will be no problem. Please help me!!! josh -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and...