Tried doing that using a generic CF to IDE adapter I bought on eBay from Hong Kong. I first saw these in Japan so I bought one to experiment with...
Here are the results: The adapter came with all the pins in it so I needed to figure out which side was up and down and bend the right pin away to fit in the female connector slot. Then tried it using several older CF cards 60x, 133x from Ridata, Kingston and Adata. They were various 2-8GB flash drives and NONE of these worked as a boot drive. The OS did not recognize the adapter and card or allow it to be formatted, nothing, I tried again using two other adapter cards, no dice. I did further research and found only certain drive brands will work, but this is unconfirmed. In a posting I saw it said most Sandisk CF cards work so I need to get one and try it. A SUCCESSFUL workaround is buying a cardbus PCMCIA CF adapter and loading OS 9 onto a CF card and using it as a boot drive. These adapters are cheap less than $10. This worked for me in several older machines including a Wallstreet, PB 1400c, 2400c and PB 3400c. In fact the 1400 requires 32MB RAM to load OS 9 but will boot from the CF preloaded with OS 9 using virtual ram. Performance...there was some noticeable latency compared to a regular hard drive but it does not render the OS un-usable its just slower If you are willing to give up a cardbus slot this is a viable alternative. I bought a CF to SD card adapter to try and it doesn't work either. There are newer 16bit cardbus adapters that will take an SDHC card for about $20 on eBay, might buy one and try that too. . TERRY Irvine CA 92612 On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM, aussieshepsrock <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hello, > I'm wondering if anyone has swapped their internal hard drive for a > compact flash card using one of those 2.5" ide to cf card adapters > they sell on ebay? I have a wallstreet g3 with 128mb, 60gig, os9.2 and > osx10.4 via xpostfacto. I'm mulling the idea of yanking my hard drive > out and going with compact flash card(s) for internal storage. It > ought to ameliorate the heat a bit, cut noise, extend battery life, > and speed things up quite a bit. > My thoughts are that it would be almost impossible for the compact > flash card to not drastically beat the pokey 5400 rpm hard drive on > data throughput. I would hazard to guess that my data transfer speeds' > limiting factor would be whatever the capabilities of the ide system > in the wallstreet is and/or the capability of the bridgecard to > sustain throughput speeds. > The downside seems minimal, but if someone has tried this and has > tips on pitfalls or travails they have encountered or the raving > successes they've had as well - please pass em along! > > I'll try to document whatever I try to the group. > > Richard > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
