--- I myself just aquired one of these machines also... As far as SCSI mode
is concerned there should not be an issue for the install... CD'rom drives
are avail for these up to 16x, the floppy and cd swap from the same bay, but
note that they are not hotswappable..
Timco computers.com has units for sale for reasonable prices... Update
the ram to 64(System top) For about $75.00. There are G3 upgrades avail for
the system.. I'm looking at a G3 466 upgrade for around $200.00 so that
might be to steep... I believe if you can find a 166 processor card for the
1400 series you can drop it right onto the mother board.. So if someone you
know has one, that might be a viable alternative...
hope it helps...
---nathan
on 10/26/03 10:38 AM, K a r i at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was given a PB1400 and it's questionable as to whether the hard drive
> is going out. It got filled up to less than 90MB of free space and just
> started mis-behaving. He couldn't connect online anymore, serial port
> wouldn't work, and I don't know what else. I rescued his important files
> and then he gave it to me to keep. The floppy drive wasn't included, he
> said it doesn't work. I'm not sure about the CDrom drive. But the SCSI
> disk mode does work and it's mounted on my starmax right now. I wanted
> to erase the whole disk and install 8.1 from the CD using the SCSI disk
> mode. But just before I clicked ERASE, I got to thinking, how will SCSI
> disk mode work if there's nothing on the hard drive....?
>
> Can I erase the hard drive and then install system 8.1 without booting
> from the CD (using the SCSI DM)?
>
> Is it worth upgrading this thing? It's the 117, it's only got 16MB RAM,
> and a 1G hard drive. It has a megahertz cruisecard, and that's all I
> know of for extras.
> thanks, I'm PB clueless, but sure like that screen!
> Kari
>
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