Interesting, What compact flash card and what adapter do you use?? Michel > Greetings. Got my 1GB CompactFlash card and adapter. After a false > start, I remembered not to copy the system folder from the current > startup disk, so I booted from the OS 8.5 CD in the external drive, > and then copied the System Folder and Apps from the hard drive. Only > other set-up glitch was that the wireless card wouldn't work until I > moved it to the lower slot (and moved the CF card to the upper slot). > CF card is set as Startup disk and System Folder shows the happy Mac > face (so appears to be properly "blessed"). > > Everything appears to working with the CF card as the boot drive > EXCEPT for the fact that whenever I open folders with the "triangle > opener", launch applications or click on links in my web browser the > hard drive spins-up! I suspect this is NOT supposed to be happening > as it defeats the whole purpose of silently running and battery > saving from the CF card. What am I missing? > > Also, I noticed that when I had the hard drive set as the Startup > disk and the CF card was inserted as a second disk there wasn't a > clear way for me to Eject the CF card since Cmd-E wouldn't work and > Eject was grayed-out in the Special Menu. I had to use a paper clip > to manually eject the disk during a restart since I couldn't unmount > the drive while in use. Is there a problem here? (Incidentally, I > initially initialized the CF card with OS Extended format from Erase > Disk... Is this OK?) > > Thanks for your assistance! > > Gary F. Daught > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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