Bit of a necro here, but I attempted to download this from the developer site and it turned out to be a corrupt file. I am downloading it on a Win7 machine onto a CF card then working sneaker net to my machine so that might be the cause of the problem... Does anyone have any input on that issue?
Fond memories of toting home a Mac SE/30 from my high school for weekend use as a trusted GT student back in the 80s in just such a bag. Nice find and looks great.
PB180s are great--congrats! They are built like tanks and definitely are mannish in their lines. I sent one to an old friend of mine who absolutely couldn't afford one at the time they were on the market and he was speechless. He reported himself strangely drawn to it, and this is a guy who...
Beachycove that's brilliant. Thanks, I have a set of 1400 batteries that I am looking at setting up that way, though the BTI-branded packs are made of a brittle sort of plastic that doesn't react well to trying to open them.
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John
It could be that the batteries do have a full charge but they are so depleted that a full charge is so little that it's not enough to keep the machine going. What do you know about the batteries? I'm in the same boat, btw.
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John
Heh. But you CAN boot a PowerBook 1400c in 8.6 from a PCMCIA card and it won't affect the IIci from seeing the drives later on when you connect via SCSI. I'm learning something every day, it looks like.
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John
I learned today that PCMCIA ethernet dongles are not all interchangeable. Only a couple of dollars for that lesson, but worth putting down here to save someone else if they do a search.
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John
:lol:
I seem to be screwing it up by the numbers here...
I had installed OS 8.5 on my PB1400c, and afterwards powered down and set up the SCSI direct mode hookup. Bam. Both drives were visible on my IIci when connected via SCSI in disk mode.
"All's well, so okay time to go ahead and put...
Gah. Something else.
Don't let the IIci see your SCSI Disk Mode laptop with a PCMCIA card inserted with a CF card that counts as a large volume (2GB and up). It will render your Powerbook's drives unreadable to the IIci and force a reinitialization and OS install (actually--you don't have to...
HFS. The drive was formatted from the 7.6.1 install disk.
I figured out what it was. The deal is this: You actually can't mount a 2GB drive on a Mac IIci. I don't know whether it's a IIci/68030-specific limitation or whether HFS just peters out just shy of 2GB due to address limits (I am...
I came across this thread and thought I'd post my question here. I have an (extra) PB1400c with a 2GB hard drive that I have connected to my IIci for the purposes of establishing a direct mode connection and availing myself of the 2GB volume on the PB1400c. Given that the volume is (only) 2GB...
Thanks for the pointers--I expect that that I'll write this up as a project file for others to try if they like, so I appreciate it. Though what is more likely--and realistic--is that I will give up because of the cost of equipment or some other barrier and just either buy a 50-pin 2.5" scsi...
Oh, sure. If I am successful in shoehorning in a multi-GB CF card into a PB180, why not go ahead and take up a couple of gigs with uncompressed sound files? That's a great route, too.
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John