[G4] Re: Super Duper Cloning software

[R Michael Vogt]

I used to use CCC and I have used Super Duper  But here is way to do  
this right in Disk Utilities it will do the same thing  if you want  
to just clone drive. I Know its in Tiger and I thinks its in Panther.

Mike
On Jan 17, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> Keith,
>
> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
>
> You are the first person to support my assertion that the firmware  
> does not reside on the drive, but on the computer itself.  I think  
> there is a special ROM chip (at least in the older Macs) on which  
> it resides.  I can recall in the early days of the Mac when people  
> removed the ROM chip to make the clones of the Macs, either as  
> desktops or as laptops (anybody remember the Kangaroo?  I had  
> one.).  But, I guess that somebody asserts that you need 9.x to do  
> one of the firmware upgrades to the ROM.  That is entirely  
> possible; I think I did that once to one of my older Macs, but it  
> was so long ago that I forget the details.  One thing I seem to  
> recall is that you need 9.x (9.2?) to be able to determine your  
> firmware version before upgrading it.
>
> Bottom line: if your old drive is still working and you have 9.x on  
> it, go ahead and do the firmware upgrade (to the computer's ROM --  
> Read Only Memory) before you do anything else.  Then, clone your  
> old drive to the new one using CCC or SuperDuper (I downloaded it  
> after reading these discussions, and it looks more straightforward  
> to use than CCC, and it is free if all you use it for is cloning  
> and not scheduled backups).
>
> --Steve
>
>
> At 2:23 AM -0800 1/17/07, keith_w wrote:
>> That means the firmware is already in the Mac's CPU somewhere, and  
>> it's THAT that is being upgraded, not the hard drive.
>> You said, "Perform firmware upgrade on new drive." Just a point of  
>> clarification... It's not ON the new HD, it's USING the new drive.
>
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