Firewire Fun

[kelly]

Got my 6' $5.35 Firewire Cable.

Connected the laptop and the G4.

Booted the G4 in Firewire Target Mode.

Macintosh: How to Use FireWire Target Disk Mode

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

Downloaded the latest CCC to the laptop.

Cloned the System to an empty Partition on the G4.

Took two tries but it eventually worked.

Booted the laptop from the G4 Partition. Everthing seemed fine.

Afterward. Booted the G4 from that Partition.

I was a lillte wary. Didn't want to have Rick's problems.

But it was ok for the short time I used it.

Mostly that's just a Back Up. I'll do Panther on this machine when I get the CD.

Did all the Repair Permissions and Repair Hard Drives where appropriate.

Something I learned.

"FireWire Target Disk Mode works on internal ATA drives only. Target Disk Mode only connects to the master ATA drive on the Ultra ATA bus. It will not connect to Slave ATA, ATAPI or SCSI drives."

Yup.

[kelly]

So I bought a new Hard Drive.

Hitachi Travelstar 5K80 30 GB.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...5002&CatId=1277

And a Firewire Enclosure for the old 12 GB Drive.

OWC Mercury Express

http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_Specials.cf...m=OWCME910FW911

It seemed like it would work ok with the old Drive.

If it was for a newer faster drive I would have gotten something better.

Interesting note. At least to me. A 2.5" Drive is about the size of a deck of cards.

I checked out the Hard Drive Install pages here.

PowerBook G3 Firewire Hard Drive Upgrade

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/IBM_Trave...32GB/index.html

And downloaded the QT Movie for replacing both RAM Slots here.

PowerBook G3 (Firewire): Customer-Installable Parts Procedures

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50028

And went to town.

The bigggest problem was that screws were small and hard to work with.

Tried to be as gentle as possible.

Took out the old drive and put it in the External case.

Didn't have instructions for it but I went by a similar one.

Firewire Direct's Portable Firewire Hard Drive Kit

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/firewire/portab...ive/index1.html

And.

OWC Mercury On The Go Assembly Manual

http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/Load_Page.c.../otgmanual.html

It was pretty self evident really.

Then put the new drive in.

Booted the Laptop with the External Firewire hooked up.

Booted to the old drive and ran Disk Utility to Partition etc.

Decided to go with just one Partition.

Then use CCC to Clone the old drive to the new.

Ran into a problem. It hung at 99% done.

I Quit it and tried to boot the internal but it didn't work.

After much troubleshooting I think I figured out what was wrong.

When I Partitioned and the Erased the new drive I chose HFS+(Journaled)

I had turned off Journaling on the old drive.

So I was Cloning from Non-Journalled to Journalled  .

I erased the drive and turned it off on the new one.

This time CCC worked fine and everything is cool.

The new drive is faster and very quiet. Nice drive.

That old drive in that little Enclosure is pretty handy.

Very small and portable.

That's all.

[Thomas S. England]

When I put a larger drive in my TiBook, I put the earlier drive out, placed it into an enclosure. Then I moved all my music files to it. I nearly filled the 30 gigs, but now I have all my tunes in an easily portable unit.