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ide-cf adapters: any experience?
Does anyone here have experience of installing an ide-cf adapter in a powerbook? Is it worth the time & trouble?
I'm not sure any 68K PowerBooks had an IDE drive - most used 2.5 inch SCSI drives.
PowerBook 150 did, as did the 190 and 190cs.
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.
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!!!!
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.
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
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.
Also known as UDMA - stick that in your search and find it