Love the Mac > Adventures in tech support: iBook edition

[MacLife: The best apple mac computer hardware and software posts from around the web] to clone the now up-to-date external drive to the 2nd iBook's hard drive, which is just like physically moving the drive, but without all the mess. A short time later (all right, a long time, but I was at work, so it's OK), the working iBook had been turned into a mirror image of its damaged counterpart, all of the important files had been saved (the iBook is off presenting slides as I type this, in fact), the user experienced only an afternoon of turn around and today I can get to work on properly diagnosing the damaged iBook with a lot less pressure than I had on myself yesterday.

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Inluminent.comhttp://inluminent.com [Inluminent.com] iBook G3 700MHz hard drive upgrades/replacements at inluminent: I had an iBook G3 that went as well. I have no idea on how to retreve the data from the damaged hard drive.

Planet.gentoo.orghttp://planet.gentoo.org [Planet.gentoo.org] Diego Pettenò - Post details: Gentooizing the iBook: Im still in the process of trying to diagnose as to why the box will hardlock under minimal load exactly, but it is almost certainly to do with the way it handles DMA, and more than likely it just clobbers userspace memory regions which will then be over-written by userspace, which then currupts kernel-space and hangs.

http://elmindreda.blogspot.com [Elmindreda.blogspot.com] Random Reminiscing Ramblings: It's quite possible that I'll give in and get a new machine anyway, of course, but if I do, it'll be due to the 'shiny new toy'-factor. I'm still not sure whether I'll be able to beat that, especially since I've been promising myself a new laptop this Yule ever since I got my iBook, three years ago.

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