Thanks Terry, the info is NOT exactly encouraging - is it! I am able to go the pcmcia card adapter route and booted successfully 'once' that way in the past but it just didn't feel very 'elegant' at all.
My question now is: Why was it refusing to boot up off the ide/cf card adapter? there had to be a specific technical reason for it. I wonder what it is or was? Richard On Aug 20, 10:14 pm, Powerbook G3 Store <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
