http://books.google.com/books?id=cDoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT33&lpg=PT33&dq=%22symantec+utilities+for+macintosh%22&source=bl&ots=Y2Su_s9aW0&si…

Would be nice to have to see if it would recognize the macbottom serial HDD as it is.

Symantec Tools is a newer variant that sprang forth from the older Symantec Utilities for Macintosh (SUM). I have version 1.1 of SUM. Symantec Tools is part of Disk Clinic (which…

not sure about symantec tools, I am talking about Symantec Utilities for Macintosh Version 1.1 before it became Norton. From the Wiki, it supposedly understands the old HDD systems…

disk0 is going to be the hard drive. You're getting hard drive errors there. You may want to boot it into firewire target mode and do a surface scan on the disk from another comput…

I have something called Symantec Tools 1.0. Is that the same thing? I see in the disk drive parameter volume folder three MacBottom configurations, 20/32/40. It also defines the Ap…

Would be nice if it would talk to the macbottom HDD. Research concludes on macbottom, that Symantec utilities 1.1 would work with HD20/macbottom/etc, but i havent found a copy.

disk0 is going to be the hard drive. You're getting hard drive errors there. You may want to boot it into firewire target mode and do a surface scan on the disk from another comput…

So here's a recent Tecmar drive sale on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250993088572 So the seller says this: Tecmar made several versions…

OK: Update. I tried resetting the PRAM. Nothing. Wouldn't boot in safe mode either. I booted from Verbose mode. I got the following (it hangs here): ATIRage128: Using AGP Airpo…

@FlyingToaster, After I got the kernel panic I tried the Apple Hardware Test CD for the iBook. I did the long version, which took about 15 minutes and it stated that everything pas…

You can maybe try an apple hardware test cd. It depends on if it works on your ibook or not, some models it doesn't support. I think it has a long RAM test on it, maybe leave it l…

OK: Update & More problems. So as you may remember in my conquest thread, I obtained another iBook to be a donor unit to get this iBook back working. I ended up taking the…

It's been a while, but here's some news: it's not the SCSI chip, but one broken connection!

nice drawer icons, can you copy them and put them online?

I've just posted another 720p video here that shows the HyperDrive Mac 512 booting to the Desktop: I also shot it from the side while booting, with the case back off.

I just added 11 new HyperDrive photos today: https://picasaweb.google.com/103365672326265854011/GCCHyperDrive20DriveMechanism Be sure to read the commentary beneath each photo, a…

A solid-state HyperDrive will either be very expensive or a lot of hacking. Click to expand... A typical Atari ST IDE board (which would be the same hardware, essentially) is f…

The easy way to put a hard disk emulator in a Mac 512 is to add one of the SCSI-equipped upgrades and Mac Plus ROMs. From there, add a notebook SCSI drive like I have in mine, or u…

Yeah, the emulator products are priced so they might make sense if you desperately need to keep some dedicated industrial computer running. (You'll find MFM or RLL hard disks float…

I found an exact flash replacement for my MMI M112 drive: http://www.datexdsm.com/disc/disque33.html But the price is not shown, which leads me to believe it may be as costly as …

There actually are a couple commercial solutions for replacing MFM/RLL hard drives with either SATA or flash... but they are turn-your-hair-white expensive, unfortunately. (North …

...almost *any* MFM (or RLL, they're the same hardware, just the data encoding method differs) hard drive with four or more heads and of suitable physical size would work as a repl…

I suppose this is useless trivia, but according to the platter/head/cylinder layout (2/4/306) that MMI drive in your Hyperdrive is from a logical standpoint literally a shrunken cl…

Thanks for posting those pictures. Now there IS documentation of an MMI mechanism available. I guess I should post pictures of my old disk drives for reference too. That big list c…