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Portable woes. — #1

Last night, I decided to try recovering my Portable (Backlit.) Yes, the main battery is beyond hope, so I am using a high-power PowerBook 100-series brick. My symptoms are that i…
68kMLA Hardware by Anonymous Freak Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 14:57

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #21

Hmm. I was about to suggest picking up this card, when I read the following in the description: Internal Drives Supported Supports any ATA/IDE fixed media hard drive includ…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 02:02

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #19

so at this point whats your options 1) internal drive + controller card 2) firewire drive, which is proving hard to find without a ridiculous price 3) usb2.0 drive + controller c…
68kMLA Hardware by trag Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 00:33

Solid State Drive (SSD) in SE/30 — #53

Does this advice pertain to flash drive solutions? I ask because my IBM DGHS spinning platter drive is 4.5GB (i.e., "4GB and larger") and I formatted and partitioned it on my SE/30…
68kMLA Hardware by bbraun Thu, 14 Jan 2010 - 02:59

Solid State Drive (SSD) in SE/30 — #52

The most reliable combination I found for 4GB and larger drives was to put them in an OSX machine, partition them using Disk Utility using an Apple Partition scheme, but only 1 par…
68kMLA Hardware by JDW Thu, 14 Jan 2010 - 02:27

Solid State Drive (SSD) in SE/30 — #51

If anyone has thoughts on what went sideways, I'd love to hear them. Click to expand... I've found differences in behavior and performance depending on what does the partitioni…
68kMLA Hardware by bbraun Thu, 14 Jan 2010 - 02:03

IIci - Bringing back my 1st Mac — #22

Thanks for the idea and your interest, I went back and once again successfully booted the IIci from the ADB keyboard! I tried my spare IIci speaker and I also closely examined the…
68kMLA Hardware by IIciNov90 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 - 00:33

Solid State Drive (SSD) in SE/30 — #50

My Acard AEC-7720U scsi to ide card has a connection that drives an LED. When I had this installed with a 3.5 inch IBM 7200 IDE drive in my SE/30, I had the drive mounted backward…
68kMLA Hardware by Von Thu, 14 Jan 2010 - 00:12

Digging out more 'books. — #10

Ah yes, I know the experience well. One has many boxes of possessions tucked away in some closet. One has nearly forgotten of them, but oh the joy of rediscovering them after a tim…
68kMLA PowerPC by Dog Cow Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 23:45

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #18

so at this point whats your options 1) internal drive + controller card 2) firewire drive, which is proving hard to find without a ridiculous price 3) usb2.0 drive + controller …
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 23:45

Digging out more 'books. — #9

I just realized that this post has gotten moved to the wrong forum! This is NOT a list of "for-sale" items. This was just a list of items, Click to expand... We need a show-of…
68kMLA PowerPC by Anonymous Freak Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 23:33

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #17

when i asked my apple tech guy about the price difference between usb drives and firewire drives he noted as best as i understood that it's something to do about the power supply …
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 23:03

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #16

Actually I'm in Australia....but that makes sense - from what I hear CDN$ is usually pretty close to AU$.
68kMLA Hardware by LCGuy Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 22:59

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #15

your price is about the same in canada : must be the currency exchange from us$ to CDN$ albeit these days its close to being equal when i asked my apple tech guy about the price d…
68kMLA Hardware by macguy Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 22:52

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #14

and geez lc guy, where the heck do you live that a box with a 3$ chip is so expensive? ive got a 5.25, 3.5 and 2.5 usb enclosures all for free brand new (cause they infest the eart…
68kMLA Hardware by LCGuy Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 22:25

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #13

well I guess I should have noted usb2 vs firewire usb1 vs firewire is like putting johnny carson against the rock
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 21:22

thunderCachePro on a Color Classic — #10

Yes, it is true about Mode32 on the CC. I found a copy ate umich and installed (not before reading the README, but decided to give it a try). Didn't work. About the RAM, it was th…
68kMLA Hardware by mpocciot Wed, 13 Jan 2010 - 21:04
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