Re: Best Enclosure?

2005-08-05 Thread Howard R. Katz
FYI, deals abound on ebay too. I just picked up a 200 GB unit for under $115, including shipping. (Still can't get those partitions to change format tho--disk utility only is giving me the MS-DOS choice.) Later.Howard

Re: Best Enclosure?

2005-08-05 Thread Brian McEwen
On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote: FYI, deals abound on ebay too. I just picked up a 200 GB unit for under $115, including shipping. (Still can't get those partitions to change format tho--disk utility only is giving me the MS-DOS choice.) What version of disk

Re: Best Enclosure?

2005-08-05 Thread Howard R. Katz
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Brian McEwen wrote: On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote: FYI, deals abound on ebay too. I just picked up a 200 GB unit for under $115, including shipping. (Still can't get those partitions to change format tho--disk utility only is giving me the MS-DOS

Re: Best Enclosure?

2005-08-05 Thread Brian McEwen
On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote: OS X tiger. I was able to use it to partition the thing - originally was goingto do one partition for the mac and the 2nd as MS-DOS for someone's peecee, but I may just reformat as one large Mac drive. :) I got the 2-partition

PB 190 Screen Lamp Longevity

2005-08-05 Thread James W. Greenidge
Greetings All: Does anyone have true info in the hours lifetime of the PB 190's screen illumination lamp and does taking measures such knocking down the brightness setting to bare minimum and hiking the contrast instead increase lamp life and lower the wear and tear? Thanks. JimWG --

Why won't 280c boot?

2005-08-05 Thread Ge'
1. Maybe I'm confused, but I thought holding down C during startup was for internal CD drives and that for external SCSI devices, you need to hold down Shift-Option-Command-Backspace. 2. Maybe try it without termination: Here's something I found at

Re: Why won't 280c boot?

2005-08-05 Thread Dana Collins
Hello Paul, Thank you for the response - I will give it a try. My issue also seems to include a PRAM battery going out. Would this make the unit forget that there was an HD and OS in place? I can boot up, but if the unit goes to sleep, it is gone: I have to force reboot, usually to an OS question