Hi Stuart,
I've just become hooked on CCs and I managed to get hold of one off E-bay - I think I even bidded against you if you're 'stuartsmacs'.
Anyhoo, worked great for a couple of days but the hard drive went down a couple of days after I bought it so I can't really enjoy it. I can see that you're UK based and was wondering if you had a 80/160MB scsi hard drive I could buy from you. VIS in Reading quoted £40 - I mean I could almost buy another CC for that...
Many thanks and keep up the good work -
Moodles
I installed OS 7.5 over a working 7.1 installation and it went dead two days later. All I get is the DISK icon with the question mark in the middle. Every time I turn on the CC I hear the HD power up and down three times and then it stops. Any clues?
Its comman for the old harddrives to fail. Most of my compact mac drives died. Get a replacment from ebay...
Hey,
If you replace your failed drive with another 80/160MB hard drive, you're just fattening frogs for snakes. That replacement drive will also be old and waiting to die. Something 500MB or larger -- or go completely crazy and put a gigger in there -- will be somewhat newer and maybe will last longer.
William
I agree with you. But what newer gigger drives are compat. with these two machines?
Hey,
The size in megs or gigs of a drive that will work in a CC or an LCIII isn't machine-specific, it's OS specific. Pre-OS 7, 7.1, 7.5.1, is I think 2 gigs. (I'm delving into what's left of my memory.) After OS 7.5.3 it's measured in tetrabytes. So if you're running 7.5.3 or 7.6.1, a 4-gig SCSI drive is no problem. (Except finding apps and data to fill it.) A 1- or 2-gig drive in those toasters will do just fine.
William
Remember that if you use a larger drive in an older OS that doesn't support devices over 2GB you can partition the drive in smaller chunks that the OS will recognize. You may need a third-party disk utility — like Hard Drive Toolkit or SoftRAID — to set it up.
Also, most any SCSI drive should work in older hardware, as long as it's not an LVD (Low-voltage differential) drive. I found that out the hard way. If the pin interface doesn't match the existing cables (it's got more pins and a smaller connector) there are adapters available to mate them up. Newer hard drives that use a faster SCSI mode will automatically scale back to a slower SCSI bus speed.