Hoopers, or Kanga's as they're more typically known, cannot run OS X without the help of XPostoFacto (As they are essentially a Powerbook 3400 with a G3 instead of a 603e). Wallstreet's were the first officially supported PowerBooks for OS X. Wallstreets were supported through 10.2, 10.3 was the first version of OS X to obsolete any hardware.
-Adam Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > >>Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> >>>No need for a third party utility. >>> >>>* The Finder includes a "Secure Erase" feature for items you put in >>>the trash. See the menu command "Finder -> Secure Empty Trash". >>> >>>* If you need to erase an entire disk drive volume, the Disk Utility >>>application includes secure erasure of disk volumes. >> >>Which versions of the OS have these features? One of the Macs I'm >>dealing with is a G3 Powerbook. Don't know which version it's running >>yet, but it's at least 5 years old. maybe older. > > > All Mac OS X systems since v10.1 release in 2001. > > PowerBook G3 represents a range of five models made from late 1997 to > 2002: > > 1997-98: PowerBook G3 "Hooper" - oldest, squared off case design with > SCSI and serial ports > 1998-1999: PowerBook G3 "Wall Street" - softer 'pillow' case design > with SCSI and serial ports > 1999: PowerBook G3 "Lombard" - thinner, pillow case design with USB > and SCSI ports > 2000-2001: PowerBook G3 "Pismo" with dual FireWire and USB ports > > Hoopers and Wall Streets could run Mac OS X up to 10.1 but only to a > limited extent, due to lack of RAM and video options. Lombards were > made for only a short time, they can run 10.3 but had limited video > cards so some things do not run well or weren't fully supported. > Pismos can run all versions of Mac OS X up to the current 10.4 > generation. > > If you need to scrub an older PowerBook drive that is not configured > with Mac OS X: > > - For a Pismo, it's very easy. Set the PowerBook into FireWire Target > Mode and connect it to any other Mac OS X system via a FireWire > cable. Then run Disk Utility and use one of the Secure Erase options. > Or obtain a Mac OS X installation CD or DVD, boot the system with it > (with the CD or DVD in the optical drive, power up the system with > the 'C' key held down, this will automatically search for a bootable > volume in the optical drive first). You can then run the Disk Utility > from the Installer's Tools menu and use a secure erase option on the > drive. > > - For older PowerBooks, you'll need an installation CD for Mac OS X > v10.1 specifically to boot the systems from the optical drive and > perform a secure erase of the hard drive. If you don't have that, you > can use a FireWire to SCSI adapter cable for a more modern system and > a SCSI System Connector cable for the old PowerBook. The latter cable > is inserted into the SCSI port, and connected to the adapter and the > modern system and then the old PB system is started. This starts the > PowerBook up as a SCSI Target Drive, which Disk Utility can then see > and run a secure erase. > > Without the right pieces on these older machines, doing a good secure > erase will require finding a bootable CD or SCSI drive with Mac OS 9 > and a secure erase utility written for the older operating system. > The age and value of such an old system means that it is probably > much less trouble to extract the drive and physically destroy it > rather than waste time finding all the bits to do a secure erase. > > PowerBook G3 Pismo system are still quite viable ... I fitted mine > with 768M RAM and a 60G fast drive in 2004 and used it until two > months ago running Mac OS X v10.4.x, when I bought my PowerBook G4 > 1.67Ghz system. I've since sold the PBG3 to a friend who is > continuing to use it for his daily internet and accounting work. :-) > > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
