On Dec 12, 8:06 pm, "Bibin M." <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
I wasn't using the internal CD. they didn't come with one. I was using
my USB/firewire LG "super multi". They did for some strange reason
have a 250MB zip drive module. Actually I don't remember trying them
out. I think I didn't have any zip disks at the time.
Would a bad cable produce the same problems as a bad channel? What are
the chances that both a Lombard and Pismo would have the same
problems? I only got farther on the Pismo because of the firewire.
Thanks,
Bucky.
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