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Help With Hard Drives — #2

Whenever I plug in the hard drives, they both started to make a clicking sound. Uh oh, there may be something really wrong and I thought my data was long gone. Click to expand..…
68kMLA Hardware by porter Fri, 26 Jun 2009 - 07:23

Help With Hard Drives — #1

I'm at my wit's end and thought I'd give it a shot on this forum. I have two hard drives, one an external WD Passport 120GB that was formatted for Mac and the other is an internal…
68kMLA Hardware by Redjack Fri, 26 Jun 2009 - 07:12

Apple II internet — #10

The //e can then run any competent terminal emulation software to login. Click to expand... If you're going that direction, you have lots of company: http://dataswamp.net/appl…
68kMLA Networking by david__schmidt Fri, 26 Jun 2009 - 02:05

Apple II internet — #9

If you have an OS X box that lacks serial ports, you can get USB/8-pin serial adaptors pretty cheap. Then all you need is an 8-pin Mac printer cable to go between.
68kMLA Networking by luddite Fri, 26 Jun 2009 - 01:17

Apple II internet — #8

Here's how I plan to get my //e connected: I have a Super Serial Card and a b&w Power Macintosh G3. I've got the G3 configured with OS 10.2.8 such that its serial ports (p…
68kMLA Networking by Dog Cow Thu, 25 Jun 2009 - 20:56

Apple II internet — #7

Not for MacOS... the free alternative would be to install some form of UNIX, but that's not exactly the easy way out ;-) There's always the option of getting a dial-up shell acc…
68kMLA Networking by luddite Thu, 25 Jun 2009 - 20:36

Unix for 8-bit Apple — #22

When will you be posting the Apple II stuff on there that you have? Click to expand... Hopefully in July or August. I need to update the Vault page, though. I've done more work…
68kMLA Development by Dog Cow Thu, 25 Jun 2009 - 19:29

Apple II internet — #6

Is there a free alternative to IPNetRouter?
68kMLA Networking by MrMacPlus Thu, 25 Jun 2009 - 18:03

Apple II internet — #4

Wouldn't it consist of running some router app on the Mac and then connect to that with the IIgs? Sorry, but networking isn't my strong point, possibly I should call some local net…
68kMLA Networking by MrMacPlus Thu, 25 Jun 2009 - 00:40

Unix for 8-bit Apple — #21

I don't post. I just read the news on my site. See this topic: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9839 Click to expand... Yeah I saw that thread. It looked like a simple way to check up…
68kMLA Development by magnusfalkirk Wed, 24 Jun 2009 - 23:55

3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #10

Right. Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS …
68kMLA Hardware by alk Wed, 24 Jun 2009 - 19:36

Hard Drive upgrades for Sawtooth G4 — #10

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with…
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 - 14:23

3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #9

Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS X overcomes th…
68kMLA Hardware by Hrududu Wed, 24 Jun 2009 - 03:53

266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #35

ahh actually no. I have a rev a gossamer and it came with a SCSI drive and no IDE drive at all. we later added a 40GB IDE drive, but when time came to put OSX on it we had to buy…
68kMLA PowerPC by alk Wed, 24 Jun 2009 - 03:39

3 hard drives in Rev 1 B&W — #8

Rev 1 B&W G3 does NOT support booting from slave IDE devices because the on-board ROM for the controller does not understand how to access slave devices. OS X overcomes th…
68kMLA Hardware by alk Wed, 24 Jun 2009 - 03:34

Unix for 8-bit Apple — #20

What do you go by on there, since I haven't seen Dog Cow as a name on any messages. Dean Click to expand... I don't post. I just read the news on my site. See this topic: view…
68kMLA Development by Dog Cow Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 22:16

iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #4

You should be able to boot from a USB drive, as long as there is a known working OS 9 or OS X install on that drive. You will have to hold Option at boot with the drive connected. …
68kMLA PowerPC by joshc Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 20:40

266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #34

There were three revisions of the Beige G3 ROM: -A (LROG434-01/02), -B (LROG434-02) and -C (LROG434-03), and all with part no 820-0954. There are five subspecies of the Rev. A, but…
68kMLA PowerPC by trag Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 19:28

Apple II internet — #3

You may also want to look at IPNetRouter on the Mac. http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipr_overview.html It's $89 and you need a lot of patience and a degree in network technolo…
68kMLA Networking by luddite Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 16:29

VST 100 zip drive PowerBook 3400c — #6

Ah yes, ye olde Zip drive problem! I too, have a 3400c and 100mb Zip module and indeed it does work fine under OS 8.6 as you mentioned, - perhaps because the Iomega drivers origina…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by NeverGoBack88 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 15:57

Apple II internet — #2

is there any way I can route the internet to the IIgs via a LocalTalk cable? Click to expand... I think so, but I think it's probably going to be more work than you want to do …
68kMLA Networking by david__schmidt Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 11:51

266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #33

ATA cards show up as SCSI devices to the system bypassing the IDE issues with OSX on a beige G3 (also means once they are formatted on that card they cannot be used on the built in…
68kMLA PowerPC by Unknown_K Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 05:48

266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #32

To get OS X on an IDE drive, it must be installed on the first partition of the drive and that partition must be 8GB or less. This can be overcome with the use of a Sonnet ATA/100…
68kMLA PowerPC by Temetka Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 05:37
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