On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 02:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone! I'm new to the list (just 3 weeks) and have been learning much from you all and having some good laughs, too. I'm a freelance graphic artist, still getting great use from my Beige G3 Desktop.
I have an extra 30GB drive. Plan A was to put it in the empty bay as a slave for quick backups and as a bootable drive in case the other internal drive goes, but I couldn't figure out how to get the internal chassis up to get underneath! (My previous Macs were a Mac II and a Mac IIci -- both much easier to get into.) Plan B was to put the replacement drive in a case to connect it via USB, but after reading the post about booting from an external FW drive, I'm wondering if I could boot from the USB drive. And even if I could, is speed an issue? How would it handle large Photoshop files?
Since Plan A sounds like the best solution, can anyone tell me the "trick" to opening the chassis? (Silly question, but I hate being a slave to the repair shop -- a 90-minute drive.) The latch in the front seems to release okay and the latch in the back appeared to have moved enough, but the back end of the chassis won't swing up. Am I being too gentle with it or is there another latch that I've missed?
Yup!!! Pull out the power cord!!!
Chuck D.
Any other ideas for using this extra drive? In case it makes a difference, my G3 has a Rev3 MB, a USB PCI Card, and I'm running OS 9.2.2.
Thanks for your help!
Cheryl p.s. Sorry for the long post. Please edit if you reply and forgive me if this should be on the Vintage Mac list! ;)
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