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Posted by: beachycove on 2008-02-07 15:08:53
Does anyone here have experience of installing an ide-cf adapter in a powerbook? Is it worth the time & trouble?
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Posted by: Forrest on 2008-02-07 18:49:56
I'm not sure any 68K PowerBooks had an IDE drive - most used 2.5 inch SCSI drives.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-02-08 03:44:56
PowerBook 150 did, as did the 190 and 190cs.
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Posted by: TylerEss on 2008-02-09 09:06:04
I'm hoping to buy a couple IDE-CF adaptors in the middle-near future, so if I do, I'll make sure to post my results for everyone's consumption.
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Posted by: 30pin on 2008-02-15 07:52:17
My CF adapter showed up today!! It was shipped fast!!! First glitch was there is an extra pin. The harddrive plug off the computer has one pin deleted. So after a five second thought process I bent the pin out of the way and plugged in the adapter. The PB1400 fired up showing flashing floppy. I installed O.S. 7.5.3 onto an older 256mb Kingston CF card. It took a couple of tries to get it finished. It's boots up faster, and everything works about the same, maby a bit faster. I will nip off the extra pin so the adapter sits flush in the harddrive plug in. I had the 256 CF cards handy so I used them. They had a previous life in a camera. I want to get some 1gb CF cards, I will look for older ones, there seems to be problems with newer CF cards. The best thing is the cost of the adapter!! Delivered to my door(Canada) from Hong Kong $3.98U.S. It is awesome to have the PB1400 sitting there running silent!!!!
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Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2008-02-15 08:05:55
Sweet. If it were possible to use CF in my CC I'd really consider it, considering how ancient 50-pin SCSI drives are getting.
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Posted by: blackbird on 2009-01-18 16:45:13
Hey 30pin where did you get the adapter? Is it a 2.5 scsi-->CF adapter?
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Posted by: Byrd on 2009-01-18 21:17:17
Hey 30pin where did you get the adapter? Is it a 2.5 scsi-->CF adapter? I'm pretty sure he/she is referring to a basic CF-->IDE (or CF-->PCMCIA) adapter which are cheap as cheaps. Now CF-->SCSI for under $5, that'd be nice 🙂 I'd love one of these but ideally would like a few, but the cost is prohibitive.
JB
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Posted by: register on 2009-01-25 07:32:18
I installed O.S. 7.5.3 onto an older 256mb Kingston CF card. It took a couple of tries to get it finished. It's boots up faster, and everything works about the same, maby a bit faster. Please do your comrades the favor and share your findings in the Wiki page Flash Drive Test Results. Especially exact information on the CF card type/vendor and driver software are useful to multiply your success 🙂
As far as I know the PB 1400 (as the PB 150, too) needs a CF card identifying as "fixed media" to (edit: cold-)boot* from the internal drive bay. Does the IDE-CF adaptor have any electronics on the PCB to set such mode or are you lucky to use an industrial CF card ?
*Once the machine has an appropriate driver in RAM, a restart using the CF card as boot disk will work. This works only if booted from another drive in the first place.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-01-28 02:06:33
a CF card identifying as "fixed media" to boot Also known as UDMA - stick that in your search and find it
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