Thanks.
*) Yes, it's back to booting for the most part. Crashes with the card almost like clockwork > Sad Mac.
1) Cardbus: Yea I worded a lot of that unhelpfully I'm guessing. The adapter is supposed to be PCMCIA compliant (it says it's 16bit compliant but it also says it's 32bit compliant. Now I'm wondering if there's a voltage issue. But I also noted it read on the 5300 a few times - so maybe it is 16bit compliant and has a voltage issue... not great. But I won't be using it on the 5300.
2) As for the HD, I don't hear anything - when I have time later I'll swap it out, but either the HD is dead or... worse. But it may just be purely coincidental, with the HD failing just at that time. I'm not the original owner and it had the original HD in. I got it two months ago or so.
3) I don't know why I didn't think of resetting the PRAM. However, it just seems to shut down when I try. I'll replace the [dead] battery later and take a look inside and then try again.
Well interestingly this card does work well on the 3400. It seems to support UDMA. It just clearly cannot be used as PCMCIA unless the PC Card setup is also Cardbus compliant [that's kind of mincing words...]. But I'll also look up IDE/ATA > CF adapters. I didn't know those specifically existed.
[4) When I formatted it on the 5300 [because there's something really screwed on the 3400's board - actually I'll PM you on that because you may have some useful thoughts] the only medium I had connected was the floppy module and the disk I had in it happened to be the Disk Tools floppy you can make with 8.5 (which I was trying to install via the 3400).] I just wanted to test booting and I was curious whether any different symptoms would present on the 3400.
*) Yes, it's back to booting for the most part. Crashes with the card almost like clockwork > Sad Mac.
1) Cardbus: Yea I worded a lot of that unhelpfully I'm guessing. The adapter is supposed to be PCMCIA compliant (it says it's 16bit compliant but it also says it's 32bit compliant. Now I'm wondering if there's a voltage issue. But I also noted it read on the 5300 a few times - so maybe it is 16bit compliant and has a voltage issue... not great. But I won't be using it on the 5300.
2) As for the HD, I don't hear anything - when I have time later I'll swap it out, but either the HD is dead or... worse. But it may just be purely coincidental, with the HD failing just at that time. I'm not the original owner and it had the original HD in. I got it two months ago or so.
3) I don't know why I didn't think of resetting the PRAM. However, it just seems to shut down when I try. I'll replace the [dead] battery later and take a look inside and then try again.
Well interestingly this card does work well on the 3400. It seems to support UDMA. It just clearly cannot be used as PCMCIA unless the PC Card setup is also Cardbus compliant [that's kind of mincing words...]. But I'll also look up IDE/ATA > CF adapters. I didn't know those specifically existed.
[4) When I formatted it on the 5300 [because there's something really screwed on the 3400's board - actually I'll PM you on that because you may have some useful thoughts] the only medium I had connected was the floppy module and the disk I had in it happened to be the Disk Tools floppy you can make with 8.5 (which I was trying to install via the 3400).] I just wanted to test booting and I was curious whether any different symptoms would present on the 3400.