So I used Time Machine to back up all my settings to an external drive. It takes time to track down old PowerPC applications. I didn't want to lose my data and reinstall everything from scratch. There's a risk the SSD might bounce around inside the case and loosen the hard drive cable - or the sound card cable, which runs over the top of the drive bay, but I suspect you'd have to really bash the PowerBook before that happened. A couple of pads of heat-resistant foam might help keep it in place. I eventually lined the bottom of the bay with a couple of strips of masking tape so that the SSD wasn't resting on bare metal. I have a special set of cables that can power SATA drives and connect them via USB to a laptop, but 2.5" IDE drives don't support external power:Īs you can see the MSATA SSD looks sad and lonely in the hard drive bay. That's not possible with IDE, because there's no way to power the replacement drive outside the computer. Ordinarily when I replace a laptop's hard drive with a newer model, I clone the original to the replacement then swap them around. The weather radar shows better weather ahead.
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The wipers are trying to keep the bridge windows clear of spray. Someone has just brought the captain a mug of coffee. A container ship driving through a rough sea. I like to think about that when I go to sleep at night. Somewhere out in the ocean there's a container ship ploughing through the waves, with a container filled with little electrical trinkets from China. We live in a world where people in China can ship little electrical trinkets half-way across the world and still make a profit from £3. The adapters are available from China via eBay.
One day I will remember that Philippines has one L and two PPs.