I have bad news. The Quadra 700 can't boot up with SCSI Manager 4.3 even without the Zip Drive connected. The thing is that the macintosh is rocksolid when actually working with no…

In your position I might bust out Hard Disk Speed Tools and see if it could help(it has helped a few times in the past with HDs and my CD-RW). Were the old versions of Disk Warrio…

Well, looking at the history thread to which you directed me, that Quadra has an attitude. Until you have a data backup maybe it would be better if all further rescue attempts be …

I ran Disk First Aid on the HD. Here are the results. Code: Checking disk “Macintosh HD”. Checking disk volume. Checking extent BTree. Checking extent file. Checking catalo…

I was able to regain my stability by: 1.Disabling SCSI Manager 4.3 and restarting 2.Updating the HD Driver using the Patched HD SC Setup 3.Restarting with All Extensions Enabled…

Duh, I should have added Apple's Disk First Aid to the list, it fixes things that Norton Utilities does not. I have updated drivers using Apple's Setup tool, and even MacOS versio…

Will it manually mount from SCSI Probe 4.3? Click to expand... No. Norton Utilities, also any other boot startup, if you can get them to see it, then designate HD as sta…

Some things to try... Will it manually mount from SCSI Probe 4.3? Norton Utilities, also any other boot startup, if you can get them to see it, then designate HD as startup disk …

IT DOESN'T MOUNT!!!! I can probe it, and it even shows me the name of the disk that's in it (which is now HFS so it should work.) Plus it's bringing back that not-being-able-to-do…

Couldn't you theoretically find a wall wart with the right voltage, hack some metal pads, and stuff the pads onto the contacts of the PB100? Probably screw some serious stuff up if…

Re: battery - will do. I'm thinking an SMD NiMH charger IC and a home made AAA NiMH pack. That or finding the smallest lead acid I can. BTW first hurdle - how do you get the bat…

Updating the hard disk driver got it through startup - with SCSI Manager 4.3! But the disk won't mount? Oh my?… I think the disks might be HFS+ :I

Yeah, they're neat little beasties. I prefer the keyboard on these to the Duos. I personally have three or four of the 100s, but only one works. Two have some random problem that I…

Are you by any chance using some bizarre CD ROM drive that requires a driver? I have a 12x Pioneer CDROM drive that will not mount disks without a driver. It's possible that yo…

Are you by any chance using some bizarre CD ROM drive that requires a driver? I have a 12x Pioneer CDROM drive that will not mount disks without a driver. It's possible that yo…

SCSI Manager 4.3, just Google it, lots of info, in particular see http://db.tidbits.com/issue/251 which mentions the requirement for a "SCSI Manager 4.3 compatible hard disk driver…

Sweet!

ive got one, the mobo is bad tho

I made a zip boot disk with Iomega Tools on 4400, but the Q700 couldn't boot from it. The manuals showed me nothing new… :'( ~~~~ What is SCSI Manager 4.3 and why does it make …

PB100s are very cool - lighter, smaller, and just a little more removed from the present day than all other PB1xx series - very collectible IMHO. And there's gotta be a way to hack…

Yes. But don't rain on his parade yet. Bunsen is savvy enough to know the star-crossed joys of extreme archaism, and with the 100s specifically, as opposed to the rest of the 100…

Well, assuming they got them around 10-12 years ago, each system would have been literally tens of thousands (US$) with all the Avid stuff...multiply that out and include all the s…

How much must all that have cost new I wonder...stuff like that reminds you just how depressing the depreciation of computer equipment is! :'( The Macs alone would surely have co…

Yeah, you could start your own filmmaking school with these...heck, ten years ago when I started at CalArts, we only had two machines that we're setup with Avid hardware.

Yea, I would not mind one of those systems. So when nobody goes for it (they must be looking for a huge tax write off since the gear is worth little these days), what will they do…