Byrd
Well-known member
Hi all,
I've a nice unblemished PowerBook 150 I'd like to see running - not the most exciting vintage Mac, stock 4MB RAM but works beautifully short of a dead Quantum 120MB HD I can't resurrect. Being one of the earliest IDE implementations that Apple released, it isn't trivial to find a replacement hard disk owing to software and ROM limitations (the Quantum HD has Apple ROM to be detected - similar to SCSI HDs which Apple software refused to work with if aftermarket).
The smallest and oldest replacement HD I have is a Toshiba 4GB unit - it is detected on startup, detected by Mac OS (offering to format it), detected by Disk First Aid, but fails to format using the Internal HD Format utility. I thought I'd try to set up a Network boot disc and try the patched version of Apple HD Setup - version 1.5 - and it finds nothing. I've also tried other formatting utilities such as Lido (SCSI only ...), and formatting the hard disk in another 68K IDE Mac - to no avail.
I'm stuck. Has anyone else worked on a PB150 recently - noting the massive effort that went on here for Compact Flash:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/hardware/pb150/PB150_and_CompactFlash.html
Thanks
JB
I've a nice unblemished PowerBook 150 I'd like to see running - not the most exciting vintage Mac, stock 4MB RAM but works beautifully short of a dead Quantum 120MB HD I can't resurrect. Being one of the earliest IDE implementations that Apple released, it isn't trivial to find a replacement hard disk owing to software and ROM limitations (the Quantum HD has Apple ROM to be detected - similar to SCSI HDs which Apple software refused to work with if aftermarket).
The smallest and oldest replacement HD I have is a Toshiba 4GB unit - it is detected on startup, detected by Mac OS (offering to format it), detected by Disk First Aid, but fails to format using the Internal HD Format utility. I thought I'd try to set up a Network boot disc and try the patched version of Apple HD Setup - version 1.5 - and it finds nothing. I've also tried other formatting utilities such as Lido (SCSI only ...), and formatting the hard disk in another 68K IDE Mac - to no avail.
I'm stuck. Has anyone else worked on a PB150 recently - noting the massive effort that went on here for Compact Flash:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/hardware/pb150/PB150_and_CompactFlash.html
Thanks
JB
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