It may be possible that the ATA channel used for the hard drive in the pismo or lombard is busted; unlike most G3 laptops, they had a separate channel for the HDD and CD, and this may be why the CD works fine. If you can, try building/buying a hard drive enclosure that fits in one of the bays, and see if that works. Since the hard drive you tried works on the Wallstreet, I think it is safe to rule out ATA-6 incompatibility.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Bucky <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have just last month run across a stack of Powerbooks for $10 each > at a thrift store. While there were many Pre PowerPC. the were some > PowerPC and even some G3 Powerbooks. > Being limited to $25 I picked the best of the selection. A 400Mhz > Lombard and a 500MHz Pismo. None of them had batteries or power-cords. > anyways back to the main point. > > I've been unable to get an internal drive to work in either of them. I > could format and install 9.2 on a Wallstreet, but the new Powerbooks > would not recognize the HD. I haven't gotten very far with the > lombard, It will boot, and I can get into open-firmware, but I haven't > gotten it to boot from a USB cd-rom drive. > > But I have been able to get the Pismo to boot from firewire hard > drives and cd-rom drives without a problem. but it will crash whenever > I try to format the internal drive OR try to view the IDE information > in the System Profiler. > > How DO you tell if a hard drive is ATA 5 or 6? I tried several drives > that simply don't work on the new G3's. even the one original to the > Wallstreet II won't work in them. Or is it the IDE cables? I don't > know which possibility to go for first or how to test for it. > > Unfortunately none of the hard drives have a convenient "ATA-5 > Compatible" sticker. > > Thanks, > Bucky > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
