I didn't address your post properly. I apologize. There were RAM cards in the 5300/3400/Kanga. I had reseated the one in the 5300 after the problem and before posting, so I didn't think that was it, but maybe I should be very certain of that when going through it again. As for HFS/+, at this point I'm really only dealing with 8.6 (5300c) and 9 (probably 9.0.4 or something; Kanga) - so I'm probably going to leave everything in HFS+.
I more or less relayed (to Shopdigi or whatever they're called) Bunsen's thoughts - that the card really isn't fully 16-bit compatible. The thing is that they sent this very specifically as a replacement because the Cardbus card I bought from them was totally incompatible. When I explained that their card didn't appear to actually be fully 16-bit compatible, then they brought up the size of the SD card. That's why I asked - not partition issues but whether there might be a size incompatibility. I don't want to dwell on that because that was largely to refute what I thought to be a capricious defense. [it's funny because I was very specific - they knew this was for a Powerbook 5300c from 1995 lol.]
Ugh. So next weekend (Elfen), I will very carefully and methodically test out your process on the 5300c. As I have mentioned; the card did boot the 3400 (I think) and 5300 - but only one on the 5300. Every other time I try to start with the CF in the 5300 it just goes to Sad Mac; and every time I insert it after boot on either 3400/Kanga/5300 it freezes (and on the 5300 then restarts to Sad Mac).
I guess what I didn't convey well here is that maybe if I preempt it on boot I can format it (that's been the issue with booting with it in), but if it freezes on insert... do I really want to risk using this card if I can avoid it?
[And Bunsen I'll have to look at my 3400 board in relation to a wire mod. For some things it should (anyway?) work without. I'm assuming the Kanga doesn't have these issues, but it may also not be fully compliant [in which case it would definitely be partially compliant like many 3400s (some 3400s are not compliant at all as I understand what little I've read)].
(I was using 16gb because that's all I had. I now have 128mb also. But yeah I do intend to use Classilla and I'm probably stuck with 96mb. I want to test out Tiger with XPostFacto also. )
I more or less relayed (to Shopdigi or whatever they're called) Bunsen's thoughts - that the card really isn't fully 16-bit compatible. The thing is that they sent this very specifically as a replacement because the Cardbus card I bought from them was totally incompatible. When I explained that their card didn't appear to actually be fully 16-bit compatible, then they brought up the size of the SD card. That's why I asked - not partition issues but whether there might be a size incompatibility. I don't want to dwell on that because that was largely to refute what I thought to be a capricious defense. [it's funny because I was very specific - they knew this was for a Powerbook 5300c from 1995 lol.]
Ugh. So next weekend (Elfen), I will very carefully and methodically test out your process on the 5300c. As I have mentioned; the card did boot the 3400 (I think) and 5300 - but only one on the 5300. Every other time I try to start with the CF in the 5300 it just goes to Sad Mac; and every time I insert it after boot on either 3400/Kanga/5300 it freezes (and on the 5300 then restarts to Sad Mac).
I guess what I didn't convey well here is that maybe if I preempt it on boot I can format it (that's been the issue with booting with it in), but if it freezes on insert... do I really want to risk using this card if I can avoid it?
[And Bunsen I'll have to look at my 3400 board in relation to a wire mod. For some things it should (anyway?) work without. I'm assuming the Kanga doesn't have these issues, but it may also not be fully compliant [in which case it would definitely be partially compliant like many 3400s (some 3400s are not compliant at all as I understand what little I've read)].
(I was using 16gb because that's all I had. I now have 128mb also. But yeah I do intend to use Classilla and I'm probably stuck with 96mb. I want to test out Tiger with XPostFacto also. )