On March 20th Eric J. Leopold wrote Keith the IBM 40 GB DeskStar is plug and play, no adapters. The jumpers are are preset so nothing to change. Just unplug the old drive and remember which way the power plug goes. Good luck. Eric
Thank you Eric for the advice. Couldn't find the drive you suggested but did have Western Digital recommended and found on that has the Mac logo on it. That is the brand that is inside the C500. This is 60 Gigs and runs at 7200 rpm, Ultra ATA100. Internal EIDE. Cost just $99 Canadian after rebate. 40 GIG was over double the price, so this looked like a great buy. Backed up all the important data using 100 MB Zip disks. Replaced the hard drive - much easier than I had thought it would be and matched the pin configuration to the original 2 GiG drive. Inserted the OS9.2.1 disk and powered up, held down the c key, up came the OS9.2 logo followed by a dialogue box telling me that this system would not run on my computer. Replaced the 2 GIG and am asking the experts for help. Have a Mac 9.2.1 install CD. Have an Original Power Mac G3 Install and Restore (OS 8.6) CD and an Original PowerBook G3 (OS 8.1)CD Install The C500 has a Matshita drive. I also have an HDI SCSI Doc Adapter that apparently will connect from the back of the PowerBook (250 mhz G3 Wallstreet PowerBook) to the C500 - only I don't know the exact protocol to use the Powerbok as a hard drive so it will show up on the C500 which is what I think I have to somehow set up to bypass the Matshita CD. The end of the cable that isn't hooked into the adapter is a 25 pin male end. Do I have the right cable? Can I use any of the OS CD's that I have. I also have OS 8.1 and OS 8.5 ona CD and the 8.6 upgrade that I downloaded from Apple's site but none of them will boot. The PowerBook is using 9.1. It makes no difference to me what OS I use on the C500. 8.6 has served me well. I have no objection to 9.1 or 9.2. The C500 has 144 MB of Ram installed. The major reason for a new hard drive in the C500 is that the 2 GIG has been working hard for 5 full years and I am getting concerned that it might fail. Can I format the 60GiG hard drive in the c500 with the resources I have? I am assuming that I should use the Disk Tools on one of the CD's. I also have Norton Utilities 5 but I remember that to use Speed Disk to defrag the 2 GIG, I had to put the Speed Disk app and a small system folder on a ram disk because the Norton CD wouldn't boot in the C500 either. Ram disk didn't work this time either, I tried. Physically replacing the hard drive was a cinch. Finding a way to format the 60 Gig once it was installed has been a challenge but I know people on this list must have helped other people through this before. I am assuming it is the CD player that is the issue and I hope the set up with the G3 will be the key but I don't know how to proceed to set it up right and turn things on in the right order so I don't do any damage to either computer. Thanks in advance for any help. Keith Pendlebury -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
