Hard drive question

I have a PowerBook 520 with the original 240MB hard drive. Does it need to be low-level formatted every few years? -John -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

68k disk defragmenter

I was wondering if there are any free disk defragmenters for 68k macs anywhere. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! |

Re: should I get a G3 Kanga, 1400 or 2400?

If you modify the card cage, then the Kanga will physically accept a PCMCIA card, which is a prereqisite for accepting a USB or Firewire card. The Kanga will take PCMCIA (AKA PC Card) cards already. Of course, I *intended* to state: If you modify the card cage, then the Kanga will physically

Re: Hard drive question

I have a PowerBook 520 with the original 240MB hard drive. Does it need to be low-level formatted every few years? Probably not. Most of the drives being made by this time had on-track servo. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

3400 Musing - the Journey

Well my 3400 is working once again! ::does a happy dance:: I can't tell you how odd it felt not to have it for a couple weeks. Of course I've got 2 other computers at the house and 4 at work but the 3400 is mine... only mine... and darnit I missed it. A timeline of what I went through follows

New PB 100 Owner w/Problems (The PB, That Is...)

Well, I figured that now would be a good time to resubscribe to this list (hello again) since I've been gifted with two Powerbooks in two days (a 5300 and a 100), plus a pre-existing 540c, a Portable (needs work) and iBook (in the works). Today's question concerns my PB100. From what I've been