Hi Felix > If you use the HiCap software, you CANNOT boot from OS 9. As I recall (I did the final install before giving up in disgust on Saturday, and my memory is rather goldfish-like these days), I did get OS9 to install and boot: firstly 9·1 from an official retail disk, then 9·2·1, then 9·2·2 from disk images I burnt to a CD ages ago. It was only when I gave in to the temptation to initialise the 'above-128GB' partition in OS9, then restarted, that Pismo locked up.
> That's the only caveat. A small price to pay, IMHO. Pure OS9 on Pismo (and G4/800) seems faster than Classic emulation on either machine. I accept that this may be my imagination - I've not done speed tests. However, a favourite game definitely only works under pure OS9. It goes horribly wrong in Classic, possibly because Pismo is talking to my DVI monitor via a PC-slot videocard: I fear there's one translation too many of video data. Otherwise, I agree that Classic works fine. This is why I'd like to get a 86zMHz or 1GHz Ti-book: built-in DVI, also possible to boot in Leopard (for back to my mac), Tiger or OS9. I'd leave Pismo as a webserver, ideally with an SSD drive to reduce electricity costs and wear. > That said, you can easily keep on using the 160GB, keeping in mind that only > 128GB of it will be read. I may well try it again. If so, I will do some speed comparisons. I don't need the extra capacity but I would like any speed increase available if I'm to keep using Pismo as a games machine. (G4 is too noisy!) > It's hard to find 7200rpm PATA HDDs at this point in time, and smaller drives > will cost you an arm and a leg. Yep. Another G-bookersuggested Hitachi so I trawled their site. Well over £100 plus shipping from US because Hitachi don't market them in the UK. However, the 160GB HD I have was free, apart from the time failing to clone my existing install to it, then installing from scratch... Thanks to everyone who has commented on this thread. Bruce -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
