><I made a 64 meg CF boot "disk" with Norton etc. on it, as a ><repair tool. > >Pardon for my ignorance, Is CF compact flash the same as PC card or PCMCIA >card? also, can I also use CF 64meg in my pb3400? >Thanks in advance for any information.
CF is compact flash indeed; you buy a $15 CF to PCMCIA adapter, and you have a portable stoarage that can move between powerbooks etc. CF or smartmedia by themselves won't fit in a PCMCIA slot, you need the adapter. Really should be $15 or less. If you format it as a mac volume you can boot from it; if you format it in your camera it's a great way to offload digital pictures quickly from your camera- just put the CF or smartmedia (you can get a smartmedia-PCMCIA adapter as well) in the PC Card adapter and load into your powerbook, copy the images to the hard drive (using PcExchange, just like on a PC formatted floppy). (caveat: I've not made a Smartmedia boot disk, just transfer images from my camera that way, but the smartmedia should boot, too). Use as VM is fun, works, some folks worry about decreasing the life of the card due to VM writes but I've not yet seen anyone post that they have had a card go bad even so. If it works in the 1400 and 5300 as I have, it can only work better in a fancy-dancy 3400 ;) I didn't have to disable PC Exchange, as some have said; I just picked "mac volume" when formatting the card. It was either OS 8.6 or 9.1 when I set this up, I forget (versions of PC Exchange might differ, but as long as I can recall Format has let you choose PC or Mac volumes whatever you are working with). It's kind of handy to have as a speed disk/emergency boot disk for working on powerbooks- no mucking around with CD drives, no hauling my external drive around when working on other people's laptops, etc. B -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:powerbooks@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:powerbooks-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:powerbooks-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
