Quote: "I don't have any jumpers for the drive, so I cannot set it to slave." I am not clear on this... Do you mean you could not find a place on the drive with pins for setting j…

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

I have a PM 5500 with a Sonnet G3/L2 card running at 300 Mhz. How can I over clock to say 400/500 Mhz? Does over clocking eventually wear out the processor or make the system unsta…

Take a visit to the 6400 Zone at http://members.aol.com/tmk12v/

I have overclocked my Sonnet G3/L2 300 to 400 Mhz and the temperature is rising to 31 degrees (Using metronome). Is this too hot for the G3? What is the maximum I can clock it to a…

internal temperature is never too accurate to begin with...just go by the rule that if it crashes too much or doesn't boot, then clock it slower...

hey yall...im bummed that apple ended up not putting in slot loading DVDs into the new MPs, so ive decided to put one in myself...i just need two things, both present on an iMac DV…

iMacs DVD-rom is 50 pins ( Power supply included. ) instead of the standard 40 pin IDE Get a Pioneer slot-in with 16x DVD and 40x CD It's probably cheaper too.

will this work with a mac? they dont list mac support and i dont think it will work without mac drivers that come with it (G4 cant initialize it i dont think) are there any mac DVD…

check http://www.xlr8yourmac.com 's drive compatibility database, you'll see which DVD drives are compatible...