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One option would be transplanting a 2.5 notebook drive into the 5300. I recently did this with a spare 1400 drive re-loaded with system 7.6. The modifications to the hd caddy are fairly simple, but tight. You need to use top-mount screws as there is no way to put in side-mount screws. The caddy...

I still have two that live with only minor plastic issues. The replacement and fairly cheap NiCd batteries on these hold up better than the NiMh ones for the 1400...a lot better.

Whatever it was, this one was no go in the Pismo too, so I am back to doing the sequential updating...once I got the DVD drive to boot up the OS on about the 4th try or so...I'm currently on all of the Java updates from 10.4.6 to 10.4.11... Weird. You'd think there was a way to make a bootable...

Update...this has certainly been an exercise in frustration!If only the damn Lombards would run 10.4 natively! After failing to get a bootable drive copy using CCC, I used a Pismo to first re format the new hard drive to Mac format (journaled) and then made a recovery copy from that working...

But what I mean is - is the Lombard still USB 1.0 - won't recognize a 2.0 hook?

Tested again to see if the Lombard can see the drive via the USB cable. It can't. Will still probably be fine as a boot drive. Does anyone know - were the Lombards USB 1.0 and the Pismos USB 2.0? Did they change the USB controller for the new model?

Finally got it to work with a Pismo last night, so I just cloned that drive/OS rather than the one on the Lombard. I was able to reformat the drive and then CCC clone the drive. Yeah, it did take several hours, I knew it would be slow, but better than the gazillion separate updates when going...

Well, I may be backed into a tight corner. Just wondering if there is any way I can take the ingredients I have and make fire. I have a Lombard drive that is noisy and failing. I hacked this one to run 10.4.11 and it is certainly a more pleasurable thing than running 9.x or 10.3.x And yet...

On my old 1400, before I got a new port door with the top bar intact, I used a small piece of double stick black velcro to keep it shut, which actually worked pretty well. You could do that with the Pis if you want the ports covered...a hunk right beside the video out would probably do it.

My memory is that they don't make that at all easy to fix. Both my Lombards have that problem. I can apply a little finger pressure on the right side and press-fit it closed, so I live with it. I think to really get at those little springs, you do have to tear it down pretty darn far. They may...

Baby that hard drive...one of mine just gave up the ghost, and it was quite a chore refitting the drive sled to take a 12.5" factor drive from a 1400. The originals for the 5300 were these weird 17mm drives with holes in different places. Congrats on the successful resoldering!

If you have to get a HD for it, consider the OWC solid state drive - a 30 gb one is around $60. That's my next Pismo purchase, as soon as one of my drives fails... Or, on the cheap side, Tony ZZ on eBay usually has 10gb used drives for around $20 or so...I have had good service from him for a...

Final progress report: I had an extra drive from a 1400, so I got that swapped into the 5300 last night. The 17mm, 750mb drive from the 5300 revived once, then gave up the ghost. Huge thunky sound effects from such a little thing. Getting the 12.5mm drive mounted was a real beast - I had to...

Not 100% I think it has something to do with the security setting, or it is the type of wireless router. I think before I was still using simple WEP as now, but with a 2-Wire device rather than the current one, which I think is a Motorola. (I am a Qwest/Century Link DSL customer.) The current...

I'm somewhat back in business...managed to get 7.6.1 loaded onto an extra CF card I have, was able to perform a clean install of that OS onto a 1400. Last night, I was able to boot the 5300 from disk tools and managed to create a new system file from the 7.5.3 in disk tools. I am hopeful that...

Sigh - it's not my day - I pulled out my external SCSI drive (I have an HDI-30 connector) and it is non functional - can't tell whether it is the power supply or the drive itself. Took apart to see if any burst caps, didn't see any. So now I have no way to reload that notebook drive. Taking the...

Well, I was making progress - I think the issue was that it needed to be unpacked in old Stuffit Expander, rather than on my Pismo - but on first restart, this process seems to have fried the hard drive on my 5300, I am now getting the flashing disk with question mark. I think I am going to end...

Just tried it in my PB 5300 running OS 8.5, what I get is same as the 1400, a message saying that the software I need to use the PC Card is not installed, would I like to eject the card now? Is there something I have to do with Cameron's file other than just put it into the Extensions folder?

I will try it in another machine and see if I can verify the card is OK. Seems unlikely it would be fried, but you never know... Might try in one of my 5300s and see if I get the same result...

Hello all, was taking another run at getting one of my PB 1400s to use the 3Com Etherlink III card, as using the Orinoco cards won't work at home - they no longer seem to play well with my home network, but my Pismos and Lombards do, so I don't want to change anything there. I tried this awhile...