Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread mart
Teri wrote: I tried a disk swap today. [...] Here's the problem: I can't get Free PPP to work. I managed to fix Mac TCP (which had a problem with an invisible file). I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once replaced by a visible MacTCP, it came back invisible

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread Teri Pittman
At 12:35 PM 05/26/2002 +0200, you wrote: I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once replaced by a visible MacTCP, it came back invisible after restart. Having done that 10 times, I changed it's attributes (unchecked 'invisible') with the program FileBudy 2.2, gave it

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread J.S. Garrison
-- From: Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Subject: more learning experiences Date: Sat, May 25, 2002, 6:03 PM I tried a disk swap today. Took the 250MB drive from the Power Mac and swapped it with a 1GB drive from an LC520. I did a disk image

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread Mark Benson
Well, Power Macs are HFS + formatted, and the Vintage Macs are just HFS. Trying to read an HFS+ drive in a 68k Mac produces weird stuff, and crashes. Only OS 8.1 or later can do HFS+. the two machines are running 7.x IIRC so it's not related. What is more, under 8.1 HFS+ works just fine on a

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread the pickle
At 12:35 +0200 on 26/05/02, mart wrote: Teri wrote: I tried a disk swap today. [...] Here's the problem: I can't get Free PPP to work. I managed to fix Mac TCP (which had a problem with an invisible file). I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once replaced by a

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread the pickle
At 07:46 -0700 on 26/05/02, J.S. Garrison wrote: Well, Power Macs are HFS + formatted, and the Vintage Macs are just HFS. Trying to read an HFS+ drive in a 68k Mac produces weird stuff, and crashes. No, it usually produces a readable drive with one file on it: Where_have_all_my_files_gone?

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Power Macs are HFS + formatted, and the Vintage Macs are just HFS. Trying to read an HFS+ drive in a 68k Mac produces weird stuff, and crashes. PowerMacs don't have to use HFS+ and trying to read a HFS+ volume on a 68k Mac (except for an 040

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread mart
good ones, don't you?! :) I used to have that also with Hammond organs - and that came pretty close to the 'yard full of cars'! Only frequent moving will invoke cure. 'Re: more learning experiences' indeed. good luck, -mart -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread mart
At 12:35 +0200 on 26/05/02, mart wrote: Teri wrote: I tried a disk swap today. [...] Here's the problem: I can't get Free PPP to work. I managed to fix Mac TCP (which had a problem with an invisible file). I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once replaced by a

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread Teri Pittman
In Teri's case, maybe. Teri's case is finally resolved. Problem was a bad fork in the Open Transport Apple Talk Library. Don't ask me how I found it. (Well, okay, I upgraded to 7.6.1, which didn't fix it, installed OT/PPP, which didn't fix it and finally scanned the disk with Norton. One of