On a related note, I have a small IDE HDD from a desktop that refuses any formatting I can throw at it. (and last night, an NEC SCSI 2 Gig also gave me trouble - "cannot initialize an unsupported drive" (but FWB does do the job, but not to Apple's liking - OS 9 or 8 variants of Drive Set-Up). Cheers George
--- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If you have access to a PC you can get a small > adapter to connect it > >to the PC, then boot with a DOS disk and run > 'Fdisk' to remove the > >partition (also try the undocumented FDISK/MBR to > re-write the master > >boot record). > >Then put it back in the PB and run drive setup and > re-initialise it. > >Ben. > > How about downloading a boot floppy from one of the > PPC linux distributions > and using pdisk or something similar? > > LinuxPPC seems dead but yellow dog might have > something on their site. > > I'm not a linux-on-mac guy though, it might be that > there isn't a boot disk > that will work on the 5300. But that would save > you finding/buying a > connector. > > Maybe one of the Mac-linux guys will let me know if > this won't work. > > Brian ===== "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself." Quoted from St Luke, 10:27. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
