on 11/30/02 8:29 PM, Jim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, OK this "friend" gives me an old Mac 520 portable.
etc. etc. Why are you sarcastic about "friend?" Was he/she friend or no? As far as reformat to no recognition, you probably need a new driver on it before you assume the worst. But the worst is that these old scsi drives have a lifespan. I have a stack of 250mg scsi laptop drives that have bad sectors, corrupted media, what have you. If worse come to worse, try a preformatted, known good drive and make sure the problem is not a fried memory chip or a fried "relationship" between the cpu and the ram. Ie sometimes a cpu will work with some ram, not others, just as some ram refuses boot sequence with some cpus, and such relational problems can crop up after a major system overhaul. Any expert care to explain why? Has driven me crazy on these old machines. PS...I have a rev. B card cage, 8 meg ram chips, a 540 cpu (66mhz '040) and a 100mhz PPC upgrade chip for the 500 series. If anyone is interested, try me off list for prices. The PPC upgrade chip is not cheap, the card cage is not unreasonable, and the rest are cheap. R -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
