I meant that I don't have any jumpers. I don't know that setting the drive to slave would do anything though. The 3.2GB drive wasn't set to slave and it worked just fine before I …

Twice in the lifetime of my iBook the dreaded Flashing system folder icon has come up for no apparent reason. Both times, by booting from CD and running Disk First Aid I was able …

this might be edifying: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Foru...ML/000379.html not sure why the post just before this one mentions the flasher, but the above post is in regard to …

The best idea I have left would be to plug both drives into a PowerMac and take a look at them. This would also be a good time to transfer data across. We seem to be having a near…

This may be slightly off-topic, but I had almost the same problem you are explaining with my Performa 6400. I bought a 20GB Quantum drive and assumed that it would be an easy switc…

Is it possible that you need a third party softeware like FWB to format that specific non Apple drive?

Thank you all for the suggestions. Unfortunately I don not have a power mac (nor easy access to one) to test the drives. I am in the process of moving as well, so I decided to jus…

Hey, I hate to burst your bubble, but you guys should know that the case of the disappearing drive, question marks, etc., can be traced back to simply not pushing the reset button …

Howard! Where were you when I needed you??? Anyway thank's for the tip...I will now know for the future what happened. I guess this was an $80 lesson in patience for me. But just…

The button in question is the famous CUDA button. It provides a master reset, including zapping pram. I don't know where this button is on an iBook. The CUDA button got prominent …

Having had an iBook all the way down to the bones, I certainly did not see a CUDA button (and I know what one looks like). I suppose the reset button just north of the regular powe…

Same here, when I stripped my iBook down to put a 12gig in, there was only the normal reset button. Drive worked fine.

Check out this link for the reset button. http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n58416

Another idea.... I recently installed a 18GB 9mm IBM drive in an iBook for a friend. I hit the same as you - wouldn't boot from cd. The reset button cleared that, but I still coul…

Not sure if this helps, but here is a link to Tech Manuals for all Apple Products. S

oops! Here it is: http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/manuals.html

Has anyone heard any new status on "Aliens vs. Predator" for the Mac? It seems like the game will never be released. I loved this game since I first played it on the Atari Jaguar.…

No kidding... the mac version seems to be taking forever. Lots of bugs I guess. Bound to happen when you re-write the engine from scratch I guess . Hope it gets released soon...

Was just wondering about this myself the other day so I dropped an email to MGL. Here's Mike Dixon's response. "It's practically done, according to the developer. They are just wa…

It's pretty much done. Just a few net issues with Directplay but that's it.

The problem is that AvP has been "pretty much done" for the last several months with no visible sign of progress. For some odd reason, you still can't even place a pre-order for t…

Great. Just what I wanted to hear... Maybe I'll get a Jaguar on Ebay. Thanks for the info.

Well, I played the original Jaguar version (in fact, I bought the whole Jag unit as soon as I saw AvP running on it way back in, what 94? maybe even earlier...), so I may not be qu…

You guys should give Bill a break. AvP will make it to the Mac. It's not like he delayed the release of it on purpose. Macworld is just around the corner so don't lose your hope…

Hey, well there's your expanation as to why AvP is taking so long: apparently Contraband decided to reverse engineer Microsoft's proprietary network technology called 'DirectPlay' …