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Maybe I could be a bit clearer, but what I do is that I replace the harddisk or CF card on respective bus and set the StarTech card as the same (master/slave) as the drive it replaced. That is, I swapped the drives. Also, the CF-card is set to slave and boots normally. The ROM is $77D.45F2 (rev 3).

Introduction My usual setup: IDE bus 0: the original hard drive (cable select/master) IDE bus 1: the original CD-ROM (master), passive IDE to CF adapter (slave). I’ve got the StarTech IDE2SATA adapter that I just pulled out of my iMac G3 (2nd gen), together with its Sandisk SSD. It works...

Yesterday I worked on the Power Mac. I tried to install Jaguar through my BlueSCSI (which has a CD-ROM mode), but got the same behavior as the real SCSI CD-ROM when I booted the install CD. Forbidden symbol from the installer, rebooting and only get black screen - removed the battery, waited...

Introduction I’ve recently gotten a Power Macintosh G3 Desktop 266 MHz, 384 Mb RAM with a working 4Gb hard drive with a semi-corrupt partition. After some investigations I found out that it had a failed install of Jaguar (10.2.3) on it. But the hard drive also had a working version of OS 9.0...

So both your harddrive and your BlueSCSI is connected? Blinking ?-floppy indicates a SCSI bus conflict. Your log indicates that your BlueSCSI drive has ID 0. Solution: You need to rename the file on your card from HD00_512 [stuff].hda to HD10_512 [stuff]. hda, so not both your harddrive and...

It's not much to see. It's just a black screen and an external harddrive that blinks away while the computer is booting. I thought it was more important/relevant to show that the analog board is still working in the SE/30. Also, I believe that the GIF's that you linked to are the same as this...

A buddy of mine has 3D-printed a holder for three LR44 coin cells. He uses a metal strip to connect the bottom battery to the connector in the computer. Good enough, I guess? It's not like keeping the time (over time) is super important on a Plus anyway. I'll imagine that one would need to...

You're probably right that I need to remove the old caps first before I can completely trouble shoot the board. But I would prefer to get the video working before putting the new caps in - or it'll be even harder to pin point the problem. I did another brush yesterday with the toothbrush and...

Introduction So I’ve bought a known defect SE/30. I got it for about €70 with the carrying bag, some documentation and original (and blank) floppies. An over all OK deal. It was known from the listing that the screen was black. When I started the computer for the first time the screen was black...

I've enjoyed my iMac G3 Indigo quite a bit as a jukebox. Fire up iTunes (MP3's) or Vox (FLAC's) in Tiger and play some music in the background while working on something else on my modern computer. It's also my goto machine to play audio CD's. When I got the computer a few months ago, the left...

1. When you upgrade your OS Apple installs new Apple drivers on your hard disk. So I guess it's possible. But given how easy it is to just drag and drop the content of one drive to another (and that it's easy to create new drives on a SD card). You might be crossing the river to get water, when...

I'll keep that in mind! I've been considering to get a SSD solution instead of the CF card, so I may comfortably install Mac OS X without wearing out the CF quickly.

Looks sweet! I got an Indigo myself and am somewhat worried about this. But I also like that it's as quiet as my Mac Plus (especially with the hard drive changed to a CF card). However, I'm curious how do you cool the logic board? There's no vent holes there (or I might have missed them!).

I installed OS 9.1 on the computer (via a questionable burn from a Windows machine). USB drives worked just fine. I transplanted the drivers from 9.1 to 9.2.2. It would still didn't work. The difference was that "USB Mass Storage Support" is only found in 9.2.2, so I deactivated it in the...

So I've swapped out the not so happy hard drive for a CF card in my recently acquired iMac G3. In the process I changed system on the G3 from OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar to OS 9.2.2. I noticed that there was a problem when I wanted to connect my USB floppy drive. It had worked just fine under Jaguar...

### UPDATE ### So I boiled the belt for 2-3 minutes (flipped it over every 20-30 seconds with a fork so it wouldn't stick to the bottom of the pan). First I washed the belt with some dish soap. Then boiled the belt in tap water. I let the belt rest for maybe 10-15 minutes on a paper towel...

I've written an introductory guide about how to use emulation and BlueSCSI to getting software to your vintage Mac. It's almost as convenient as drag and drop to a thumb drive. I've written this guide because it took quite a bit of research and asking around to get it all going, and it has...

I'm using a bit-driver set for electronics sold by Clas Ohlson. It's an iFixit knock-off. Lots of bits, and a short extender. It's narrow and slim enough and just long enough to get the job done. My Macintosh Plus opened up without resistance. I've previously tried using screwdrivers with 1/4"...

I'll get my IDE to CF-adaptor next week, so I'll take out the CD drive and look at it closer while I'm in there. Thanks for the idea that the belt might be boiled back into shape. I have to admit it sounds a bit radical, but it might very well work. Hopefully the belt is easy to remove - I...

The inject and eject is sluggish and low power. It just barely moves the disk in and out. I've heard that it's common that a belt age and that prevents normal ejection. Is this belt easy to replace?