Re: This is another fine mess.......

2002-06-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have one of those cosmic ironies on hand. I wanted a Color Classic to try and turn into a Takky. Was given one Neat. plot my next move. It runs nicely with the 520 MO but the OS is so stripped down that it really needs to be

Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot Network Disk, hair falling out, shot nerves...

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
I know this is a Powerbook-related issue, but I'm not getting any response on that list and it's driving me nah-nahs... I've just purchased a 540c which has password protection on the hard disk... the owner doesn't have the password as it was purchased at a business clearing sale or something

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot Network Disk, hair falling out, shot nerve

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Can you open the Extensions Manager Control Panel? If you can, turn off all the extensions except Appleshare and restart. there is no extensions panel... the Netboot disk is stripped bare, the System and Finder files take up most of the space on a 1.4M disk, with the Appleshare and EtherTalk

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves.....

2002-06-27 Thread Gamba
I've just purchased a 540c which has password protection on the hard disk... the owner doesn't have the password as it was purchased at a business clearing sale or something and never used. I was told that formatting the hard disk would get around the issue, which made perfect sense to me. Except

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Steven
Slighty OT here... Have you considered Rogaine? Steven -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Steven
Seriously though, how about buying a new HD from eBay? Steven -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Steven
Well, its not Mac software, but it helps in hair growing for balding men...read your subject line Have you considered Rogaine? Eh? Say what now? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | --

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Seriously though, how about buying a new HD from eBay? Thought has crossed my mind, except I really don't have the time for eBaying (the 540c was worth it but the last few minutes of bidding nearly killed me) and itty-bitty SCSI drives for notebooks cost a packet. And there's nothing wrong with

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Well, its not Mac software, but it helps in hair growing for balding men...read your subject line oh, I see. It's called Regaine here in Australia. I wear a hat to prevent me from grabbing tuffs now ;-) -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Steven
It's a good thing you're wearing the hat now. I don't pretend to be a computer expert, but I got a cat's hairball in my Apple IIe keyboard. I wonder what human hair would do to a 540c? In the meantime, you could always make faces at the sad Mac (eg., stick your tongue out while doing a dance).

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves.....

2002-06-27 Thread Gamba
MicroNet can't be extracted because there's no room on the floppy for it Yes it can. RFM! Launch AppDisk ramdisk, then expand MicroNet.sea into ramdisk. and, of course, the internal HD isn't accessible. MicroNet might access it where Apple HD Setup couldn't. Any other ideas? Lots, but try

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Nick
I wonder what human hair would do to a 540c? Well, my 540c came from Emory University (or so the ID tag claims). Anyhoo, I opened it up the other day and there was a boatload of human hair everywhere in it. I guess it didn't hurt it, but it was just everywhere. Now it's nice and clean in there!

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
MicroNet can't be extracted because there's no room on the floppy for it Yes it can. RFM! Launch AppDisk ramdisk, then expand MicroNet.sea into ramdisk. Ah, always wondered what that app did... I'll let you know how it goes... Ben. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves.....

2002-06-27 Thread Gamba
Launch AppDisk ramdisk, then expand MicroNet.sea into ramdisk. And btw, the above won't work unless the floppy is unlocked. Gamba http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2 -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Launch AppDisk ramdisk, then expand MicroNet.sea into ramdisk. After several attempts to boot (lots of errors, including a no-FPU error) I got MicroNet running... bad news, it can't see a thing. I think what I need is a some kind of super network boot disk, once I can talk to another Mac I

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't bootNetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot

2002-06-27 Thread Gamba
but if anyone's got any other ideas, please keep them flowing this way. Cheers, Ben. Methinks that the password protection has messed with the driver on the HD. MyEverything 1.1.1 control panel has an option for using MtEverthing's built-in driver to mount drives. MtEverything will fit on

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't bootNetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Methinks that the password protection has messed with the driver on the HD. MyEverything 1.1.1 control panel has an option for using MtEverthing's built-in driver to mount drives. Good news - Now have the thing connected to my big Mac. Seems the floppy drive is dodgey, keeping a light

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can'tbootNetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot

2002-06-27 Thread Gamba
Anyway, Mt Everything CAN'T see the drive. At all. Normally a troublesome drive will stil show on it's ID, Ben What if: The 540c has 8.1 on it and the HD is formatted HFS+. Would HFS+ prevent these old utilities from seeing the HD? Maybe some flavor of Drive Setup will see it. Gamba

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Got access to a PC with a SCSI controller? FDISK sees HFS and HFS+ hard drives as completely empty No, unfortunately... the Windoze box is IDE all the way... I don't know how would you connect the drive up the 2.5 drive just uses one fairly narrow connector which handles data and, I guess,

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't bootNetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot

2002-06-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The problem with Macs and dodgey hard drives is there's no way to get low level access to ROM routines for low level formatting a drive. You must boot a System or Mac OS. Unfortunately if the driver on the HD is FUBAR or incompatable with a driver on another disk then you're SOL when it comes to

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Well, if you had the SCSI Disk Mode cable and could get that control panel on a boot disk. :) Then I suppose you could also connect it to a Mac, but with the drive fouled up like it is you might still have the same trouble trying to format it. Well that's one of the final plans of attack if

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Steven
I hate to sound like a broken record here, but if you suspect there's problems with the HD, I would highly recommend finding a different one on eBay/Yahoo! Who knows, you may get something bigger than what you have -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't bootNetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread A.Tuazon
What about using FWB HD toolkit? Connect the hd in question to a Mac with the FWB Toolkit and fiddle around with that. Drives I had trouble with were instantly seen and fixed by FWB. on 6/27/02 3:08 PM, b e n w e l l s | headwerkx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got access to a PC with a SCSI

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Jim Scott
I'll echo that recommendation. However, I was able to get around a password-locked 80 MB Quantum SCSI with a 1990 Apple ROM recently by hooking it up in an external HDD, which I then connected to the SCSI port on an SE/30. Ran LaCie 5.3.1 on it to see and mount it at ID 1. That let me copy the

Re: IIsi video

2002-06-27 Thread mart
Patrick asked: I recently purchased a IIsi but it didn't include a monitor. [...] I am trying to use it with an OptiQuest Q53 monitor, I was wondering if anyone had used a IIsi with either of these have gotten them to work. About that, I don't know. I was also wondering what Apple monitors

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, getting there but still can't access the drive!!

2002-06-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- b e n w e l l s | headwerkx clipped list of failures Insert deep sigh here Looks like you're stuck until you get a SCSI Disk Mode cable and can directly connect it to another Mac. Got any boot disk that the Disk Mode control panel will fit on? Can it be kicked into Disk Mode from

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
Ran LaCie 5.3.1 on it to see and mount it at ID 1. That let me copy the contents to another external drive without using a password. Then I used LaCie to format and initialize the drive before putting it in another machine. That sounds like a good plan... but where do you get this LaCie

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread Jim Scott
I should have said LaCie Silverlining 5.3.1. It's an older version of LaCie's disk partitioning utility for Macs. See www.lacie.com for the current version, which comes on CD. Ask around your local Mac community; someone's sure to have a copy they'll let you borrow. The file's something like

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't boot NetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot nerves

2002-06-27 Thread b e n w e l l s | headwerkx
I should have said LaCie Silverlining 5.3.1. It's an older version of LaCie's disk partitioning utility for Macs. See www.lacie.com for the current version, which comes on CD. Ask around your local Mac community; someone's sure to have a copy they'll let you borrow. The file's something like