Hey folks,It seems that my beloved 6 1/2 year-old dual-processor 800MHz quicksilver has bitten the dust. The symptoms are:
. When attempting to turn it on, the light on the power switch turns on, then off, immediately. . When two lucky boot attempts worked, the machine would run for about 5 minutes and then lock up hard.
I replaced the motherboard battery, did all the PMU stuff, then did the PRAM stuff during a lucky reboot, all to no avail.
In any case, the machine has been replaced by a nice little mini. Question for the group:Does anyone have a recommended hard-drive enclosure for plain old IDE disks? The quicksilver has once-magnificent 80GB, 160GB, and ??GB (120, maybe?) IDE drives in it, and I'd like to get the data off the drives and turn at least one of the drives into a portable external drive. Perhaps this last idea is dumb, as cheap as drives are now, but it wouldn't be bad to have something with twice the capacity of an iPod, which is well over twice as big with 0.01% of the functionality.
Tips? Bill
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