Recent content by Peetz0r

OOooh that's very smart, I like it :) Now I just need to find one of those somewhere. It looks like nobody is selling actual enclosures, but I do see some used external hdd's and I'm sure those are just regular internal drives with adapters in a box.

I'm afraid that's indeed the most likely culprit. I wish these were standard, or at least the connector part and pinout were known. I tried cleaning the connectors again (also the mainboard side of the optical connector, just in case), no difference still. I could live with it if it arrived in...

Yes, that is what I think I did by unplugging. Most if not all of the things I tried, I have done multiple times, with and without the optical drive plugged in.

The CF adapter does have a jumper, but I didn't touch it since it worked. I tried swapping it anyway, no difference. The mSATA adapter doesn't have a jumper, so nothing to try there. I do indeed use it with a USB single device adapter. The optical drive is broken so it's suspect by default, and...

If I boot it without holding any key, the blinking question-mark-folder/finder-icon appears. If I boot while holding option, I get the boot picker, but with zero icons (unless I also have a bootable USB drive pluged in). It doesn't show the disk on the ATA bus where it should be in dev / ls...

Hey. I'm mainly a Linux/x86 guy, but I started collecting old laptops a while ago and I now also own 3 Apple laptops. One modern-ish 2013 MBP, one PowerBook 1400c, and most recently, one Titanium Powerbook G4 (1 GHz). It came with a broken power supply and no harddisk. But that's no big deal...