I have a powerbook pismo 500 mghz firewire edition,i wanted to install a 80gb 2.5 hdd i had got from a G4 powerbook,i could partition it,start a tiger install but t would error out at the end of the install,the thing was that the stock firmware was old,older firmware versions don't support bigger hdd's and the one i had in the pismo was 30gb,so i had to install mac os 9 and update my pismo's firmware to 4.1.8,then it took the 80gb hdd. now i setup my pismo do actaully run tiger 10.4.11 and mac os 9 in classic mode,so i'm runing a hybrid OS,i can run any mac os 9 program within Tiger,so i don't have to dual boot on ym new 80gb hdd ^_^
so just update your firmware to 4.1.8 and your bigger hdd will take but you have to install mac os 9 first or you can download the mac os 9 virtual disc image and run mac os 9 just so you can update your firmware Installation instructions: Mount the disc image. Open the virtual disk and copy all of the enclosed folders to your ROOT directory (NOT your user directory!). In other words, the "System Folder" should end up at the same heirarchical level as your OS X "System" folder. Open System Preferences. Give it a moment to refresh and find the OS 9 System Folder. The Classic icon should appear in the bottom row of System Prefs. You now have Classic installed! If your Mac is capable of booting into OS 9, you can use this installation to boot with, but you won't have certain drivers, like the CD-ROM. If that is what you are looking for, then you need the full-blown OS 9 install CD hope this helps ^_^ On Jan 16, 12:47 pm, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Lombards and Pismos have trouble with some ATA6 drives. > > Simon > > -- > Some HDs are incompatible with the Pismo. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
