Okay...sooo...
Found a harddrive cage and ribbon on ebay for just 10$.
My only wonder is how could that explain the random failure that happened. I was typing, no background process active, had been using it for awhile, then the screen dims, and the hard drive stops spinning...I think one of the fans was on, and making some noise...
But I got my iPod 2nd Gen hooked up with firewire, and its charging after having a nearly dead battery...that's a good sign, yeah? And the fact that I can boot off the CD means that the drive controller (wherever it is) is probably not dead...Hmm. Another random side effect is that the screen will not even cut on when a hard drive is connected to the cable. Chime, but no display. On rare occasions it'll show the flashing folder, but meh.
I can do one more bit of testing, and that is firewire booting. In fact, I can do that right now, got the titanium holding the pismo hard drive...Wow (with all these PPC macs I have, first time I've done firewire booting), and it works perfectly. VERY slow in comparison, but hey, the machine lives. I even popped in Dark Side of the Moon and could listen to the tunes. I'm feeling ALOT better now, though.
I guess that means I'm going for the ribbon. (and is there any way to download one of those service manuals?)
One last random question: the G4 upgrade. Is there any way to tell what type it is, or do stuff with cache enablers? Or do I not even need to mess with that. I was pretty sure I saw an enabler on the original hard drive, but something was up with the system software, and it kept freezing all over the place. Me, being an OS 9 noob at the time, didn't back up ANYTHING. So I cant' remember what type of accelerator or anything it was. If I don't need to worry about it, I won't. But I've always been curious if there's some sort of boost I can install. I haven't tried tiger since I got more memory, but when I did previously, it was awfully slow, even compared to my 600Mhz G3. :shrug:
Found a harddrive cage and ribbon on ebay for just 10$.
My only wonder is how could that explain the random failure that happened. I was typing, no background process active, had been using it for awhile, then the screen dims, and the hard drive stops spinning...I think one of the fans was on, and making some noise...
But I got my iPod 2nd Gen hooked up with firewire, and its charging after having a nearly dead battery...that's a good sign, yeah? And the fact that I can boot off the CD means that the drive controller (wherever it is) is probably not dead...Hmm. Another random side effect is that the screen will not even cut on when a hard drive is connected to the cable. Chime, but no display. On rare occasions it'll show the flashing folder, but meh.
I can do one more bit of testing, and that is firewire booting. In fact, I can do that right now, got the titanium holding the pismo hard drive...Wow (with all these PPC macs I have, first time I've done firewire booting), and it works perfectly. VERY slow in comparison, but hey, the machine lives. I even popped in Dark Side of the Moon and could listen to the tunes. I'm feeling ALOT better now, though.
I guess that means I'm going for the ribbon. (and is there any way to download one of those service manuals?)
One last random question: the G4 upgrade. Is there any way to tell what type it is, or do stuff with cache enablers? Or do I not even need to mess with that. I was pretty sure I saw an enabler on the original hard drive, but something was up with the system software, and it kept freezing all over the place. Me, being an OS 9 noob at the time, didn't back up ANYTHING. So I cant' remember what type of accelerator or anything it was. If I don't need to worry about it, I won't. But I've always been curious if there's some sort of boost I can install. I haven't tried tiger since I got more memory, but when I did previously, it was awfully slow, even compared to my 600Mhz G3. :shrug: