Hi Listers, Recent discovery:
The Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-103 optical drive in my G4 Quicksilver 867 will read up and make proper use of CDs I put in it (usually my game CD at this point). However, several days ago when I put my Tiger boot/install DVD in it, after some minutes of "thinking about it," the drive simply opened up and spit it out. It never showed up on the desktop. Tried several times, no go. I feel totally "naked" without the ability to be able to boot from my Tiger DVD/use its Disk Utility if necessary. So an optical drive's DVD and CD reading ability can die at different times, huh? :-( ...and it's time for me to get a new one? Question: if it takes me awhile to replace the optical drive so I can use my Tiger DVD again, and I suspect it might, will booting from my Panther CD allow me to use Disk Utility to format/partition an external and two internal HDs if I have to? Opinions, please? Thank you, ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
