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It's so annoying that Apple reorganizes its support area every few years and leaves all previous links broken. Also searching within Apple's website is mostly a PIT... I'll try to look up what config I had used. The original hard disk is in storage and I'm very unsure my Performa 475 will boot...

Thank you @MrFahrenheit for making things clearer and helping where my memory has faded. I never had any problems since I formatted my drives with the Performa 475 with System 7.6.1 (before: Mac LC with 7.1.1). I am still quite sure I switched from HDT (which I had used mostly in the mid-1990s)...

Thank you, Dirk. I remember Mulberry, but never have tried it. I am still admiring your setup (and the photos of it). I had actually used a slightly newer, less fancy variant around 1998 with a PowerBook 5300 directly connected to an Apple 16" Monitor, Toshiba portable SCSI-CD-ROM drive (which...

I used also HDT 2.x for some time. Silverlining was also very popular. But I moved to later versions of Apple's hard disk setup utility (was it "HD SC Setup"? Cannot remember) - bundled with (likely) MacOS 8.5 and newer. That is the one I do recommend. Older versions (bundled with System 7.5...

But don't overlook the toaster to the right. It may be a flyable one. :b&w:

@LaPorta  you are right, they likely mixed up their problems. FileSaver was indeed a pain, meant as cure for the disk corruption caused by the pathetically unstable Mac OS on early PPC. Disk Doctor was the only Norton tool I used frequently. It saved my disks several times. Eventually the...

The Ars-article mentions that "DiskLight was finally  'fixed' [however not so much if you read further] around version 4". I didn't have problems with it myself but used it only for a short time. My drives always had been reliable and in that era (fin de siècle) not yet so silent that you...

There was "Norton Disk Light". I think it was a System Extension without interface, but not sure. It displayed a small disk icon in the menu bar near the Apple-symbol (hmm... probably with SCSI-ID?) that flicked as real HD indicators are flickering. It might have been a shareware that was bought...

I have a Ultra-SCSI-card in my Digital Audio. It's an Adaptec AHA-2930CU Mac-Version. Unfortunately I don't have a cable with the smaller 50-pin plug (or is it 68-pin?) necessary for my card. So I cannot test it with my even older SCSI-devices. Hence my questions about compatibility. I find...

Thank you @AndiS for your Linux remarks, very interesting. I'll try to be short, obeying netiquette and not writing too much off topic. Just one thought: I'm annoyed by boastful claims of several Linux-distros how much faster/better they are, when they are just different GUI-flavors over the...

Hmm. Seems I cannot reproduce the alleged throttling of my PowerBook G4. Today it ran for minutes in saturation (media-rich websites @ 100% processor, so kicking in fans aren't necessarily a sign for bad cooling). Immediately after that Geekbench2 results remained around 800. I observed the...

Thanks, @Byrd , I wasn't aware of the down clocking in G4s. Sub-optimal cooling of my PB? This may well be the case. It didn't receive any hardware treatment at all since new except adding RAM. I had been clearing out dust of several laptops but was never sure I did it right. All survived but...

After several attempts my 15" PowerBook (2004, 1.3 GHz, 2 x 512 MB RAM, else completely standard) achieved a Geekbench2-score of 800, well above the 685 listed in Everymac.com. I guess Everymac is publishing averages, so a peak score quite above is nothing extraordinary. After I did some...

Thank you @johnklos for making this more clear to me. And yes, I still remember buying 70ns RAM for Macs.

My two yoyo-adapters failed both at the cable going into the transparent plug. I never had the jack itself failing. However this may be an issue with cheap slightly undersized plugs of third party PA. Other possibility is you have failing connectors in your PBs. But all three failing? Unlikely...

I'm late replying, sorry @johnklos. Translating this to my very limited understanding of RAM: The specific speed of modern DDRn RAM is determined by the RAM-internal time management necessary to bring the data to the in-out-pins [and additionally handling refresh cycles?]. Is this a reasonable...

Thank you EvilCapitalist for making this clear. So its pretty simple: Apple's 65 W Power Adapter A1021 works with ... every PowerBook G4, Titanium and Aluminium, all sizes, and every _white_ iBook G3 and G4, also all sizes A word about "under-powering" laptops. Interesting to hear...

While having simultaneously a dead IDE hard drive and a dead optical would not be totally improbable giving the limited reliability of old electromechanical devices, a dead IDE bus is in fact rare. How does IDE (not) show up in the System Report? Do you find an entry in the left listing? And...

Thank you Cory5412 and EvilCapitalist. So, the situation regarding the G4 PowerBooks seems mostly clear, they are compatible, and there may be no higher rated PA. The 65W should also be able to power the 17". Do you agree? iBooks are also mostly clear. As an original owner of a "Clamshell"...

I have an additional Apple Power Adapter A1021 for my 2004-PowerBook, I want to give away. I found a Posting with probably compatible devices. Can somebody please confirm? Instead of posting the lengthy list, I want to boil it down to: all iBooks beginning with the 2001-Dual-USB G3 up to the...