Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-31 Thread Arne Christiansen
Hi, I used the same harddrive in my 5300 and it works. Try using a floppy tools disk to intialize the drive. Arne -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
Paul Nelson wrote: Of course a hard drive which was formatted for a PeeCee wouldn't work in a Mac. I'd try some third party software like FWB, Anubis, LaCie, etc. to format the drive. That shouldn't be necessary for an IDE drive. Only SCSI drives would need such third party

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Roth
I bought an IBM 6.4 GB HDD to install in my 5300cs 64 MB ram running OS8.6. We opened it up, installed the drive, with no problem. The problem came when we tried to start up. Started off the OS 8.6 CD with no problem, but the drive set up couldn't find the drive. Of course a hard

Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-30 Thread lewiscounty
Hi I bought an IBM 6.4 GB HDD to install in my 5300cs 64 MB ram running OS8.6. We opened it up, installed the drive, with no problem. The problem came when we tried to start up. Started off the OS 8.6 CD with no problem, but the drive set up couldn't find the drive. Finally gave up and put the

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
lewiscounty wrote: Hi I bought an IBM 6.4 GB HDD to install in my 5300cs 64 MB ram running OS8.6. We opened it up, installed the drive, with no problem. The problem came when we tried to start up. Started off the OS 8.6 CD with no problem, but the drive set up couldn't find the drive.

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Nelson
At 8:14 AM -0700 5/30/02, lewiscounty wrote: Hi I bought an IBM 6.4 GB HDD to install in my 5300cs 64 MB ram running OS8.6. We opened it up, installed the drive, with no problem. The problem came when we tried to start up. Started off the OS 8.6 CD with no problem, but the drive set up couldn't