I'm glad to hear that there *was* a PC card linked drive that worked for booting your Pismo. MCE still sells a nice expansion bay enclosure that is bootable, too. Know, however, that the "DN-Boy" and MacAlly model CA-250MA are NOT bootable for the Pismo, and are not even recognized by the Pismo as mountable hard drives under OS X. [Under OS 9, the MacAlly model is mountable, but the DN-Boy is not. I've tried!]
Back when I used a souped-up Powerbook 1400 and OS 8.6, I was a great advocate of the CA-250MA, which was bootable. That functionality has been gradually lost, to the point where the housing was useless to me and I sold it on ebay.
Because of Apple's declining support of PCMCIA (PC-Card, aka Cardbus), I cannot recommend that anyone invest significantly in such devices.
As far as I know, aside from expansion bay hard drives (like the MCE X-Car�t Pro 99) and CD-ROMs, the only way to boot a Pismo is via external Firewire housings, such as the one I've mentioned recently on this list.
--Jim.
Vicki,
The Data Shuttle I mentioned is a laptop hard drive mounted in an external case, connected to the powerbook via a PC card interface card (ide/pc card adapter). I got mine several years ago from MCE and have used it with a Wallstreet, a Lombard, a Pismo and a 2400c. It's bus powered, so you don't need an external power supply. I'm not sure if they still make them though. I just sold my spare on the swaplist.
Hope that helps.
-Hal On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:17 AM, Vicki Andreotti wrote:
Hal, From another novice: Is a PC card data shuttle hard drive different from other drives? Is it possible the CD Clone method would work a Wallstreet?
If so, any suggestions where & how much ($) to purchase such a drive (card)? Vicki A
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