theresa and Kenta--thanks for the encouragement. went to the PC fair late today. saw some maxtor IDE 60 gig drives for a bout a dollar a gig. couldn't decide whether to buy. did pick up an adapter that might let the brand new IDE laptop drive i got for my powerbook duo 2300c last year go into this instead. IF i ever get the present drive out, that is. will try again tonight and pay closer attention to whether i do hear the drive in it spin up upon powering on. this drive according to my brother in law was the original one that Apple assembled it with at the factory. he bought it new and ready to go. he used it every day until right up before thanksgiving [end of november], then turned it off, pulled the plug, and put it up in his closet when he got his new icebook. he took it down and gave it to me on nov 24th. we put it in the car, drove it to my house , brought it upstairs and it sat on a table untouched until i plugged it in the other night.
so it can't be a PC drive, and it has always had an Apple OS on it. He mentioned somethng a while back about trying OS X on it and not liking it, so he dropped back to OS 9. unless he was referring to his icebook at the time, which i can ask him. he said he couldnt remember exactly, but he thought he was using either os 8.6 or os 9 on it when he got his new icebook and put this one away. i understand that if i ever get to the point in trying to take this thing apart further, that i should find the hard drive is screwed to a beige plastic sled with a tongue sticking out the front. do i assume the sled slides in along guides, much like the motherboard drawer slides out the back? does that tab or tongue on the sled catch on or in some kind of niche that holds it in place, that I have to be aware of, in trying to free it and draw it out of the housing? as if I didnt have enough frustrations already, my dialup connection went on the fritz at predawn this morning. massive static in the phone lines, no dial tone, modem keeps dropping the call, redialing, repeating its attempts to punch thru and handshake until the other side responds and connects---i ahve never witnessed it have to work so hard to get me onto the internet before. what a persistenct little workhorse it is.. We have stormy, rainy, windy weather passing thru, yesterday and today, and neither MSN nor Verizon could tell me they were having an trouble in their lines. MSN gave me a different local dialup number to try, but the static and dropped calls remain equally as bad tnight. and you guys are my lifeline. while waiting to get thru to verizon repair, static storms kept obscuring the recorded message on hold so I had no idea if i was being prompted to press a number or what. the tech who answered said they were gonna call me back, and i cried "what if you can't??? I'll never find you again! just put the report in NOW!!!" sure enough, their call back never came over. but here i am. i got thru to you guys at least.. who knows how long the connection will last.....? the PC fair was a washout. they aren't comng back to my town.not enough business here. couldnt find an ati rage with 128 megs on it.for PCI video. best they had was a generic with64 MB. didnt get the maxtor hard drive.. the RAM i hoped for was sold out. did get a cooling fan in anticipation of putting in an L2G3 cache card and needing to get more air to that purple heatsink. think I'll set the small fan on the deactivated 603e, turned blowing sideways, and use the 'pan' heatsink as a brace to stand it on, to point airflow at the G3. when i fire that up. we'll get into the intricacies of that when i get there!. guess its back to the swaplist. buy from guys ya know. any more guidance on this dumb hard drive, welcomed. how do you take apart the damned 6360 case?????? grrrrrr. janet http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
