[Cube] Creating OS 9 partition and updating firmware

[Donald Schwab]

That's a great suggestion, I know, but I credit much of my 61 years so 
far to very seldom (or very carefully) running electrical devices 
unshielded or ungrounded, including Wintel boxes (in which it is of 
course quite easy to do)!

Besides, once one gets the hang of disassembling a Cube, it is almost a 
pleasure to do so!  (Or maybe it is that the various Torx headed screws 
have finally loosened, and it is no longer a pain!)

Besides, for some reason, I do not get a boot off the various FW 
external drive copies I have prepared over time, using Bombich Carbon 
Copy Cloner, using different drives and different external cases.  
Otherwise the copies work fine as master internal copies -- the HDD I 
am writing from now is one of them.   Must some Mac-ish trick I've 
overlooked, in a life largely devoted to the vagaries of Wintels.

Don


On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Snow White wrote:

> Don:
>
> With a couple small extention cables for power and HD connector, you 
> could run your cube naked and just uplug old HD and plug in 20 gig 
> outside the cube.  Once you have your firmware upgrade remove 
> extention cables and replug to your old HD.  The HD never having left 
> the cube the process is identical as you describe below but way 
> faster.
>
> OR maybe you could boot from an external FW HD for the upgrade.  Not 
> sure this works but others on this list will have first-hand 
> knowledge.
>
> Now you pull it apart to install the CPU.
>
> jj
>
>
> On 9-Feb-05, at 5:52 AM, cube-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
> wrote:
>
>> Creating OS 9 partition and updating firmware to
>> 	4.1.9
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's Cube."
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>>
>> I've a similar problem.  I've had a Gigadesign 1.2 gHz upgrade sitting
>> around for a couple of months because it needs the firmware 4.19
>> upgrade.
>>
>> My cube is running OS X 10.3.7, an a 7200 rpm Western Digital 60 GB
>> hard drive.
>>
>> Perhaps because I am a relatively new OS X user (bought the Cube in
>> April 2004 and moved my email activity there to avoid Microsoft's
>> weaknesses and flaws), I at one stage before upsizing my hard drive 
>> got
>> rid of OS 9.22.  Boy, what a mistake, but I thought I would never need
>> that legacy stuff and deleted unwanted OS 9 programs as well to
>> increase availability in a 20 GB Maxtor then installed.
>>
>> I've found creating a partition with a real OS 9 setup awkward, and
>> hasn't allowed doing the firmware thing, so I've worked out my game
>> plan (which time and travel has kept me from accomplishing, but which
>> should happen soon).
>>
>> My plan is simple:  Reinstall the 20 GB hard drive, format and install
>> OS 9.1 (which I have on CD), do the firmware upgrade on that setup,
>> than disassemble again the reinstal the 60 GB hard drive.
>>
>> Probably put it back in the case and ensure it boots right, etc, and
>> then load the Gigadesign software/upgrades.
>>
>> Pull apart once more, and put the Gigadesign into operation.
>>
>> So my recommendation for you is find or borrow an unused hard drive 
>> and
>> find or borrow a OS 9.1 or other OS 9 OS CD set, and update the
>> firmware with a separate setup, then revert to your usual 10.3.7.
>>
>> Don
>
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