You certainly can. I bought a VST expansion bay module for my Pismo a couple of years ago and installed a spare 10Gb HD into it. I partitioned it and installed OS9.1 onto one and Tiger onto the other. It is handy to boot from if I have problems on my Pismo or on my Lombard ( the expansion bay fits into both ). I've never taken a zip drive apart but on the surface your idea should work. You may have to do a hardware hack to get this to fit together properly. Personally I'd keep the zip drive and buy one of the CF to PCMCIA cards for troubleshooting or buy an expansion bay like I did.
Stewie. On Aug 25, 6:45 am, aussieshepsrock <[email protected]> wrote: > Update! to original Inquiry! > > I've had a bit of a theoretical insight I wanted to run by the G-Book > members. > > Is it feasible to boot a powerbook from a removable drive module? > > If so, why couldn't I just crack open my Zip Drive Module and swap > it's mechanical drive for an IDE to CF Card Adapter? > > My narrow understanding is that the drive modules (CD, DVD, HD, Zip, > or whatever) generally speaking are ide devices on the inside and the > 'slot' the modules plug into when inserted into a Powerbook they're > compatible with essentially is a passthrough for the ide interface and > a power connection for the module. > > I think this methodology of converting a drive module would give me > the greatest flexibility of keeping my spacious internal HD and the > benefits of a solid state type boot device. > > The internal hd with it's OS'es on it would make trouble shooting a > ide/cf install and boot process a bit more straight forward. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
