beige g3 test machine
I have been playing with my beige g3 I have over clocked it from 300 to 366. i currently have os 8.1 , 9.2, and 10.2 installed. I hate to give up on an old mac. i am going to attempt to turn it into a digital photo album / fish tank. my plan was to hang the largest lcd display i could get on the wall and drive it with the old g3
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Re: beige g3 test machine
no it was a statement
I partitioned the hard drive into . i can go from os 8 to 9 or 10 by choosing the startup disk. but in os 10 I can only boot to os 9 from 9 I can go either way 10 or 8. i thought this was interesting.
also i have been setting up mech warrior on the old g3 "my son loves this game". and the zip drive does not read the disk and wants to format it. i have checked several other and they all need to be formated i know they have data on them. i re formated one with no data and it works fine. any ideas? "a question" hows that dan
michael
I partitioned the hard drive into . i can go from os 8 to 9 or 10 by choosing the startup disk. but in os 10 I can only boot to os 9 from 9 I can go either way 10 or 8. i thought this was interesting.
also i have been setting up mech warrior on the old g3 "my son loves this game". and the zip drive does not read the disk and wants to format it. i have checked several other and they all need to be formated i know they have data on them. i re formated one with no data and it works fine. any ideas? "a question" hows that dan
michael
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Re: beige g3 test machine
Perhaps you're trying ZIP 250 disks in a ZIP 100 drive?
I am now telling the computer exactly what it can do.
Re: beige g3 test machine
no they are 100 meg disks
will a 250 meg drive read the 100 meg disks?
i also think that the drive that is giving me problems came from a wintel machine is their a difference?
the disk i reformated seams to work fine in the g3
but i take it to the b&w and it will not read it.
will a 250 meg drive read the 100 meg disks?
i also think that the drive that is giving me problems came from a wintel machine is their a difference?
the disk i reformated seams to work fine in the g3
but i take it to the b&w and it will not read it.
Re: beige g3 test machine
I never had any trouble converting a wintel drive to the mac, but once i put Mac formtted drive in a PC, reformatted it and it pretty much killed the PC within 10 minutes.
Zip100 disks should work with a zip250 drive.
Zip100 disks should work with a zip250 drive.
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Re: beige g3 test machine
can you define reformat the drive
is that just plug the drive into the ide buss and reformat the disk?
is that just plug the drive into the ide buss and reformat the disk?