Well, I came across a fair price on an 'industrial' 8GB CF card and on a whim I bought it... and while the Pismo still wouldn't boot from this card in a PCMCIA adapter, I dug out the CF-IDE adapter I'd given up on ages ago and swapped that in in place of the hard disk and what do you know, that works. I'm typing this on the Pismo now and still can't get over how eerily silent it is :-)
I can't say it's dramatically faster, but just the lack of hard disk thrashing noise makes it feel like a different and more usable machine. On Thursday, 12 March 2015 23:41:03 UTC, nekomatic wrote: > > Thanks Bruce. I'm sure have tried a PCMCIA adapter in the past and the > Pismo wouldn't boot from it... maybe I've just been unlucky with my choice > of CF cards. Some sources on the net make it sound as if almost any card > should be bootable, others suggest that the card needs to support 'fixed > disk mode' and this is increasingly rare in consumer (as opposed to > 'industrial') CF cards. > > If I can pick up one of the Firewire adapters cheap enough I may try it > out, and report back. > > On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 9:44:29 PM UTC, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> >> In theory it should do so, so long as the CF card is properly set up. >> I've never seen or messed with a FW compact flash reader. Also won't the >> Pismo boot from a PCMCIA slot card? PCMCIA readers are much more generally >> available... >> >> -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Books" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
