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| PB 1400c: IDE to CompactFlash convertor? |
Posted by: LC_575 on 2010-12-23 23:29:04
Is such an item available? I'd like to make myself a silent PowerBook by doing away with the hard drive.
Alternatively, are there similar convertors for SD cards?
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Posted by: CJ_Miller on 2010-12-24 00:17:07
Yes, there are indeed cheap and plentiful adaptors for these media. Also you can find IDE form factor solid state drives. Do a web search and you should find a glut of them.
Too bad that there's not much out there for flash SCSI...
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Posted by: racepres on 2010-12-27 08:34:35
Because they were cheaper I use a pcmcia adapter.
The 1400 will boot from it no problem... even w/o a hdd installed. actually the wallstreet does also, but none after that that I am aware of.
One of the reasons debian is kinda OK on the 1400 [wallstreet]... can put it on a flash drive or the hdd and boot MKLinux from the other..
RP
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Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2010-12-27 20:40:54
My main concern is write cycles on the CF, since the 1400 is pretty much condemned to use some sort of virtual memory, which is why I never did this on my own 1400. RAM Doubler with memory compression helps a bit here over Apple VM, and write cycles are getting higher and higher, but I'm still leery.
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