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Hello
I have just bought a used powerbook 5300 and I know almost nothing
about Macs, although I like them. The computer works fine, has a
working floppy drive and an ethernet card (Xircom CEM56-100). I would
like to install Linux on it. I might try a network instalation but I
have to boot from the
Hi All,
New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased a
Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following issue:
The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup and SCSIProbe 4.3,
and neither can see the drive. When the drive spins up, it makes the
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Hi!
Quoting Kyle:
New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased a
Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following issue:
The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup and SCSIProbe 4.3,
and neither can see the drive. When the drive spins up, it makes
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased
a Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following
issue: The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup and
SCSIProbe 4.3, and neither can see the
On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased a
Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following issue:
The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup
On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
Anyone care to elaborate on drive-rejuvenation voodoo ;-)?
well, you can get whatever disk repair tools will work on that old of
a system, could be it's just really trashed itself, but that is
unlikely. Only tool I know of from back
Thank you very much for the information.
Yes, I hear the floppy spinning during start up but it ejects the disk
as soon as it realize it is on the drive. I don't see any icon with an
X during the process.
Some Linux distributions say that they have the necessary drivers.
I'll give it a try. Letś
Greetings. I'm slowly getting things configured on my PB2400c (180Mhz/
80MB RAM) running OS 8.6. Wired ethernet via my GlobalVillage
PowerPort Platinum Pro pc card appears to be working fine. I'm using
the v. 3.0.2 driver (any updates I should consider?).
Wireless connection via my Dell
The problem is that the pb100 uses a laptop (2.5) internal SCSI
drive; made of unobtanium these days, you can only get very old ones.
There are many dealers selling these drives and all Powerbooks up to the 5xx
series used them.
BUT they are all very old now.
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Best wishes
Malcolm
Hello:
I have a couple 240 meg 2.5 SCSI drives..
Whoever needed them I have some for a reasonable price.
Thanks
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On Oct 25, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased
a Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following
issue: The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup and
SCSIProbe 4.3, and neither can see the drive.
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