I think this has as much to do with the CF to IDE adapter as the card
itself.
As long as the adapter states that it works in a Mac and more
importantly that it is bootable ( not all are ), then you should be
good to go.
It should also be CF1 and CFll compatible.
See here...
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp
and note some of its features...
Key Features
* Enable Compact Flash (CF) to be used like ordinary 2.5" IDE hard
drive
* Compatible with CFI/II, MicroDrive™ *
* Choice of single slot or dual slots CF adapter
* Drive access LED
* IDE interface
* Mini 44-pin IDE male connector (2.5" IDE hard drive connector)
* Bootable
* Compatible** with DOS, Windows 3.1, NT4, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP,
Vista, Mac or Linux
* Supports DMA and Ultra DMA modes (only on flash media card with
such features)
Now I bought a cheapo PCMCIA CF adapter off ebay a while back and also
a PNY 8Gb card which I installed into my Wallstreet just to see if it
would work as an emergency boot drive. I formatted it , partitioned
into two and installed OS8 into one and OS9 into the other.
Then I tried this in a 1400c, a 3400c, a Wallstreet and two Pismos -
all via the PC slot.
All booted - the 1400c and 3400c via OS8 with the others in OS9.
Next I bought a no-names Chinese CF to IDE adapter ( off ebay again )
and removed the hard drives in the above models and installed the CF-
IDE gizmo in place of the hard drives.
All booted from the same OS's as above.
I might just have been lucky but in the ads the seller did state that
the CF cards and the adapters were all bootable although the PC card
didn't say either way whether it would work in a Mac or not , just
that it was bootable under Windows.
I wouldn't say that it was much of an improvement on say a good clean
install of a Mac OS on a newish 5400 drive but start up times were a
lot faster ( at least 50% ) and apps loaded probably 30% faster
overall.
Stewie
On Aug 22, 12:15 pm, aussieshepsrock <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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
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