Bill, Have a look around on this site: <http://www.cooldrives.com/>. Russ Preston
On Jan 8, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > 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 In any case, the machine has been replaced by a nice little mini.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? _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
