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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Powerbook 3400c external CD boot? | Posted by: Opardalis on 2017-07-01 18:14:56
Though this would be straight forward, but I am having difficulty booting a PB 3400c with an external CDROM (Apple 600e). I just get the flashing disk on the screen. This is following replacement of hard drive. Holding C doesn't do anything, neither does CMD-SHFT-OPT-DEL-SCSI_ID. I dont even hear or get any activity on the CDROM. This is a working CDROM, use it all the time.
What am I missing here?
-John
| Posted by: Opardalis on 2017-07-01 19:09:37
Finally got it to work, turns out it was a bad adapter. Bad news is my compact flash card/adapter isn't recognized!
| Posted by: kerobaros on 2017-07-09 00:19:43
I also just tried a CF card and adapter in a 3400c, and had no luck. I had a card that would boot from a PC Card adapter without a problem, but when installed internally, the boot process would freeze on the grey screen with a stuck mouse pointer. Swapped back to the 2GB hard drive, and that's working just fine.
| Posted by: Opardalis on 2017-07-10 19:21:13
I decided to go with a king spec pata ssd as it seems to work better then cf, should arrive in a few days.
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