21 Dec
2006
21 Dec
'06
6:18 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
The 150 has an external SCSI port and I have an external CD drive which
works with it, so an ISO image that I could burn a CD from should work
ok, or at least let me see if there is anything to recover. It may be
that there has been a hardware failure which has rendered the drive
unrecoverable.
--tnx
--tom
> I dunno
how hard they are to find, but the post-2.0.x versions of FWB
> Hard Disk Toolkit support IDE. I have a Power Computing install CD
> around here that has a bundled version 2.5, but it boots MacOS v8. Will
> the PB 150 boot that?
I'm not certain if it would boot v8 or not.
I'm guessing that it was
running v6 or v7.
The 150 is a '030 PowerBook, so it will not boot OS 8 natively (it needs
a hack like Born Again). It doesn't run System 6, so it must be running
some form of System 7 (it came with 7.1 IIRC).
Amazingly, Disk Warrior *should* work on this unit -- it does have 68K code
and it does support IDE. Officially, it requires an '020 or better running
7.1 or higher and the 150 should support all that. On my DiskWarrior 3.0.3
CD there is a complimentary copy of DiskWarrior 2.1.1 for Classic.
It's 1.3MB, though, so you're going to need to find an external drive to
boot from. This isn't going to fit on a Disk Tools floppy with the OS.