[G4] Re: Super Duper Cloning software

Marla mitchnickpictures at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 17 06:09:01 PST 2007


I can't get to Tiger till I upgrade my firmware and,
as my drive recently failed, I just want to get a
replacement and do the clone asap with minimal stress
to the old one... but if I upgrade the firmware, and
then upgrade to Tiger, what would I do then, just look
in some Disk Utilities manual or other?

Marla
--- R Michael Vogt <michael at wbsnet.org> wrote:

> 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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