I have been using CF cards on a number of machines I have of late, just for a lark. One Titanium DVI, one Pismo 500mhz and a PC laptop (HP Omnibook 500 I believe, running win2k).
I have used 133x Kingstons, 4gb - 8gb in size. Bought some 233x CF drives, but none could be mounted. That was before I learned that some can be "fixed drives" and some cannot... I have also noticed that sometimes the adapter itself is specific on whether it'll work or not. I have collected three types alltogether: the 2.5"-sized dual CF card adapter sled, the 2.5"-size that can only hold a single CF card, and the small "connector-only" adapter; all from Ebay. Seemingly more success with the Macs when I used the sled-type adapters... I run Panther and Tiger on the titanuim (2x CF card sled); and Tiger on the Pismo. Both run pretty slowly in the beginning, but preform better once all of the updates and such are done. Then again I am using 133x CF drives... (Oh, and I last tried to convert a Lombard 400mhz, but I could not make anything CF-related work in it.) Craig W. -----Original Message----- From: stewie <[email protected]> To: G-Books <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Aug 23, 2009 7:55 pm Subject: Re: Query: Anyone used an ide-to-cf adapter in their g-book? think this has as much to do with the CF to IDE adapter as the card tself. s long as the adapter states that it works in a Mac and more mp ortantly that it is bootable ( not all are ), then you should be ood to go. t should also be CF1 and CFll compatible. ee here... ttp://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp nd note some of its features... ey Features * Enable Compact Flash (CF) to be used like ordinary 2.5" IDE hard rive * 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, ista, Mac or Linux * Supports DMA and Ultra DMA modes (only on flash media card with uch features) Now I bought a cheapo PCMCIA CF adapter off ebay a while back and also PNY 8Gb card which I installed into my Wallstreet just to see if it ould work as an emergency boot drive. I formatted it , partitioned nto two and installed OS8 into one and OS9 into the other. hen I tried this in a 1400c, a 3400c, a Wallstreet and two Pismos - ll via the PC slot. ll booted - the 1400c and 3400c via OS8 with the others in OS9. ext I bought a no-names Chinese CF to IDE adapter ( off ebay again ) nd removed the hard drives in the above models and installed the CF- DE gizmo in place of the hard drives. ll booted from the same OS's as above. might just have been lucky but in the ads the seller did state that he CF cards and the adapters were all=2 0bootable although the PC card idn't say either way whether it would work in a Mac or not , just hat it was bootable under Windows. wouldn't say that it was much of an improvement on say a good clean nstall of a Mac OS on a newish 5400 drive but start up times were a ot faster ( at least 50% ) and apps loaded probably 30% faster verall. Stewie On Aug 22, 12:15 pm, aussieshepsrock <[email protected]> rote: 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 a dapters > > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ou received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books ist, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list or G4 'Books). he list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette uide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml o post to this group, send email to [email protected] o unsubscribe from this group, send email to g-b [email protected] or more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en ow End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml ~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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). 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