To be bootable, the disk has to have a driver. I guess sometimes a standard formatting doesn't apply this driver to PC card flash memory. I dunno why that is...With that in mind, I'd guess it's a timing issue with the cards. My setup has to have a driver, or it would not work. Yet it intermittently fails on the 5300. It's a older Sandisk 64meg CF. The Pc card adapter is just wires, no logic, but something coule be noisy or with tht too I suppose and cause problems.
So Bob should trot out and spend more $ :)
Brian
If it were only a question of a little more money, it wouldn't be that much of a problem. In fact, after reading about using CF cards via PCMCIA slot, I bought a 128MB SanDisk card and SanDisk PCMCIA-CF reader for this puropse - they're about a year old now. So far, all for naught w.r.t booting and working in the PB at start-up.
I had attempted an install of 8.1 after formatting the card as you would any other Mac HD. Maybe there's a problem with where it writes the driver on a newly formatted card? Perhaps I have to run DIsk Doctor and Speed Disk on it right after the install?
I may pull out the 5300cs tonight or tomorrow and try some more debugging. If I find out anything interesting, I'll post.
Glad to see this topic come up again.
Regards,
Bob Eye
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