hi, I just had an emergency with my hd failed on my pismo (g4 upgrade, 576RAM, tiger + jaguar + 9 + debian "etch" + 8.1 w/basiliskII under debian)
i got an 80 gig seagate drive locally and luckily had mostly back up, and a backup drive to restore from so Tiger is running again within a day. but target firewire is broken - T key hold down results in it trying but shuts off just before target mode is reached (like it turns off instantly). could be incompatible hd. like the firewire recovered the backup ok. problem is I can't restore my linux w/out target because my dvd is broke. any suggestions here ? I could get a new dvd or try an external one (not sure linux would boot from it). I would like my target mode back but the new hd I would like to keep as it is 3x faster than the old one (as tested by Xbench), I really needed the space for a while, and the time I am investing here (downtime and take away from other things). I got this used replacement for $40 and I am kinda overbudget for the month... By the way saved me some last few weeks of work I could access the failing drive in os9 but only for ~10 minutes and decreasing over several times to zero, booting from a zip rescue disk, I recovered those files I had been no backing up. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
