I want to append another question to my original quandary and am
repeating said original for the sake of clarity:
Faced with the Invalid Node Structure warning, I pulled a 1GB
Compact Flash card from my camera, slipped it into a PC card,
formatted it for Mac OS, and backed up my dying HD to
Just formatting it won't make it work on the mac--you need to run
DriveSetup to get it to be usable as a device, especially if you want to
boot from it. (I'm using a 256meg unit in my 5300c as a startup
device--I'll go to 1 gig soon as I see a rebate on a CF--those things can
be costly! :) )
Gurus.
Faced with the Invalid Node Structure warning, I pulled a 1GB Compact
Flash card from my camera, slipped it into a PC card, formatted it for
Mac OS, and backed up my dying HD to the CF card. So far no problem.
Then I installed OS 8.6 onto the CF card, chose it as the startup disk,
