i was asking these days about how/what i could upgrade to my 7100/66 PowerMac. Wanna share what went ok, and what not. Anyway, Mac rock :) i love them already :)
i pulled out the old ~500MB HDD, and put a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 5GB in it, those old server things with double height, and it fits perfectly. Somabody told me that i might need a driver, but everything went ok without any drivers, i just initialized it and installed MacOs 8.5 on it, without any probs, and it works :) Oh yeah, did I mention that i was thrilled about the fact that i had no hardware probing and BIOS setup as on the PC's i was used to? It's awesome. I booted the MacOs off a HP CD-Writer Plus 9200i, SCSI of course, by holding down the "C" key, but this only worked when i disconnected the old HDD that had 7.5.1 on it, with the HDD connected it booted off the HDD everytime, no matter if i held the "C" or not. now I left the CDRom connected, and there is my problem: no matter what, it doesn't see when i insert a CD in the drive... it's a HP, and I've tried the same with a noname SCSI CDrom (24x)... do i have to do smtg to "mount" it? when i start the Audioplayer (that comes with MacOS) it says that there is no CD inside, even though i put an Audio-CD inside. well, have to figure that out for now, but for everything else i'm very happy with the Mac... old one, but it suiuts my needs, and the 56MB of RAM seem enough to keep it going decently with the Os8.5 on it.. If the MacOs would be in english, it would be even better, cause i have an German version :D Great to spend some time figuring out what everything means :) well, have a nice weekend everyone! ANdrei -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
