Okay, so I managed to get 8.1 and stuffit installed on the 5300.
Now if I could just get my Zip drive to work, then I will be be good to.
I have a version of IomegaWare 3.5 but I believe it requires MacOS 8.6.
One thing that makes me go 'hmmm' is how hard it is to locate the older software for this drive. It is almost as if Iomega scrubbed it from the 'Net. I know they haven't done that ('touwld be a waste of time and resources), but I do know that someone out there should have it.
That being said I did some more writing on my laptop this evening and while it is was a very fun experience and I prefer OS 8 to System7, I can feel the system running a tad slower. I still have 16MB free out of the 24 on a fresh boot, so I can only assume that RAM is not my issue.
I think I will load up SpeedDoubler on it and see if that helps any.
I also set the disk cache to be 256K up from the 96K it was set at. Disk access does seem to be much improved. I would still like to get my 6GB HD working as it is a 5400RPM drive and runs far, far quieter than the stock drive. I looked into running a CF module but I don't have the cash for an IDE to CF adapter, not do I trust CF for this sort of thing.
Anyway just thought that I would report in with the status of things so far.
Now if I could just get my Zip drive to work, then I will be be good to.
I have a version of IomegaWare 3.5 but I believe it requires MacOS 8.6.
One thing that makes me go 'hmmm' is how hard it is to locate the older software for this drive. It is almost as if Iomega scrubbed it from the 'Net. I know they haven't done that ('touwld be a waste of time and resources), but I do know that someone out there should have it.
That being said I did some more writing on my laptop this evening and while it is was a very fun experience and I prefer OS 8 to System7, I can feel the system running a tad slower. I still have 16MB free out of the 24 on a fresh boot, so I can only assume that RAM is not my issue.
I think I will load up SpeedDoubler on it and see if that helps any.
I also set the disk cache to be 256K up from the 96K it was set at. Disk access does seem to be much improved. I would still like to get my 6GB HD working as it is a 5400RPM drive and runs far, far quieter than the stock drive. I looked into running a CF module but I don't have the cash for an IDE to CF adapter, not do I trust CF for this sort of thing.
Anyway just thought that I would report in with the status of things so far.