[Info-vax] OT: For MAC Lovers Only :-)

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:

(snip, I wrote)
>> I have a Powerbook 160 which sometimes doesn't start up
>> right.

>   I was recently given a PowerBook 165, which has a failing
> Quantum GoDrive GR160S 160MB 2.5-inch SCSI disk, which has a
> fairly low probability of spinning up successfully.
> Somewhere between zero and twenty retries typically gets it
> going, though (so far).  I also installed a 2032-coin-cell
> holder to replace the dead, soldered-in, original coin cell.

>> I believe it installs from a stack of floppies, so I am not
>> very excited about doing a clean install.

>   It can probably load the OS from whichever medium on which
> you have the OS.  My System 7.5[.x] kits are all floppies,
> but I have a 7.6 CD-ROM.  

I am not sure now witch CD-ROMs I have. I might have 8.1 or so.

I have the SCSI-Ethernet adaptor, so I have the right connector
for SCSI to the PB160, and I think I have somewhere the cable
from DB-25 to the usual SCSI-1 drives. Maybe also a SCSI
CD-ROM drive.

Though that doesn't help much if the drive doesn't spin up.

-- glen