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Seek Pismo opinion.
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gobabushka
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a while back i put a pioneer tray load dvd burner in my pismo, and i had to make no hacks, in dont think anyways, in os 9
Orion
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I have used the G4 and intel laptops, and I would still take the Pismo over them. Maybe drop in a CPU upgrade and max the ram, along with a fast hard drive. My Pismo is so nice and comfortable to use, but the new ones feel like cheap crap in comparison. I even like my Wallstreet II laptop better than the Pismo for that reason.
Quadraman
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I didn't say I knew anyone who bought one over a G4. I said I knew people who bypassed the G4 entirely and kept their existing Pismo until the Macbook was released. With all the reports of G4 machines that stop powering up or that stop recognizing half their RAM, I feel better with a rock solid G3 Powerbook with upgrades.
chris
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Hmm, none of those seem to apply to my OS9 G3 lappy. Not sure if it's a Pismo or something else, but it has the Bronze keyboard, a 400mhz G3, and 320mb of RAM, as well as a quite nice DVD drive.
GUI is good,
USB seems to work with most of the stuff I try(floppy drive, camera, about 5 USB sticks, a different camera, webcam, etc etc.,
Current day compatibility (whatever that is) is probably getting less, I can't use WPA so I don't, or I use the handy Debian partition,
No extension conflicts so far,
Memory management seems to work fine,
and it's rock solid.
Quite honestly I don't see the problem with Classic, besides the WPA thing. Did a Classic computer bite you in the ass or something? Suck your tie into the DVD drive of an iMac g3?
GUI is good,
USB seems to work with most of the stuff I try(floppy drive, camera, about 5 USB sticks, a different camera, webcam, etc etc.,
Current day compatibility (whatever that is) is probably getting less, I can't use WPA so I don't, or I use the handy Debian partition,
No extension conflicts so far,
Memory management seems to work fine,
and it's rock solid.
Quite honestly I don't see the problem with Classic, besides the WPA thing. Did a Classic computer bite you in the ass or something? Suck your tie into the DVD drive of an iMac g3?
Hi. Found this discussion while googling for info re. the expansion bay hard drive for Pismos. Am always interested in Pismo info.
Just wanted to ask MacG4 about that 12GB expansion bay hard drive he was using. Was it working under OS 10.4.x?
I just bought a bunch o Pismo parts and accessories for the 4l Pismos I am currently fixing up. The stuff included a MCE Xcaret Pro expansion bay hard drive that the seller said was working - though didn't say with which OS - and contains a 60GB Fujitsu HD.
Problem: can't get the HD to show up at all on 2 different Pismos, 500Mhz with 10.4.9. The MCE expansion bay Combo CDRW/DVD works fine in the expansion bay, so it appears it's the Xcaret itself. Or some incompatibility with OS 10.4.9.
Opened up the case of the Xcaret HD and everything inside seemed connected okay. No internal HD noise, even to indicate the HD was failing.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
MultiFinder
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That's what I have a 540c with 7.6.1 on, and soon I'm getting a Duo 2300c to haul back and forth to school with me
alk
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Does the HD appear in Disk Utility? Have you tried installing the HD in the PowerBook internally?
I've got one of these things, and I recently used it to upgrade from my 40 GB drive to a 120 GB drive without a problem. I was running OS X 10.4, so I don't think there are any problems with the Mac OS not recognizing expansion bay hard drives...
If I had to guess, I would guess that either the drive isn't set to master/slave/CS correctly or that the drive has already failed.
First, though, see if Disk Utility recognizes the drive. If it doesn't, try putting the drive in the PowerBook internally and booting from a CD/DVD - then, if Disk Utility still doesn't see the drive, you can be sure that the problem isn't the Xcaret expansion bay module but the drive itself. If the reverse is true, the problem is with the expansion bay module's interface card somewhere.
Peace,
Drew
Hi.
It doesn't appear in Disk Utility.
I am going to open up the case today, as I found out from the seller that it was originally the Xcaret Kit, i.e. just the empty expansion bay case.
He emailed me last night to say he had used a 40GB drive in the case without problems, up to 10.4.10 on the Pismo 500. But just before selling me the Pismo and parts, he'd swapped the 40GB for a 60GB from one of his other powerbooks. He said the 60GB HD mounted okay and he reformatted it before sending it to me. So it did work. And all this was just a few days ago.
I'm going to open the case and check the internal connections. If the guy's telling the truth, the drive should work in 10.4.9, so maybe it's just something that came loose.
I have an external FW drive I can boot from if I have to reformat the Xcaret HD.
Thanks.
madmax_2069
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for $250 you can find a faster windows laptop on ebay. i seen a P4 go for a little over $200 shipped. but i can see if you want to stay with a Mac
