Freudling:
The encouragement is appreciated. I did not try the tactic of formatting and software installation prior to putting the IDE-CF adapter and card in the machine. No doubt it could be made to work. However, I simply do not plan to take apart the 2400c again any time soon. The machine requires 90-120 mins. of work to disassemble and reassemble just to test a new setup, so it is much more difficult to work on than other classic powerbooks. I must have taken it apart 15 times over the past 8-10 weeks to troubleshoot and test, so many times that I began to fear doing it damage. Now that I have it working, I plan to leave it the way it is — stet.
I am, however, able to run it from CF in the pcmcia slot, now that I have purchased a pcmcia CF adapter to replace the internal one. I too like the silence and the extra 25% or so battery life that results from not using the conventional hard drive. I may also experiment with using the (8GB) CF drive to set up a massive ram disk, by mapping virtual memory to it (details over on LEM), but this is a sort of tinkering that does not involve the pains of 2400c disassembly, and that sounds good to me.
The encouragement is appreciated. I did not try the tactic of formatting and software installation prior to putting the IDE-CF adapter and card in the machine. No doubt it could be made to work. However, I simply do not plan to take apart the 2400c again any time soon. The machine requires 90-120 mins. of work to disassemble and reassemble just to test a new setup, so it is much more difficult to work on than other classic powerbooks. I must have taken it apart 15 times over the past 8-10 weeks to troubleshoot and test, so many times that I began to fear doing it damage. Now that I have it working, I plan to leave it the way it is — stet.
I am, however, able to run it from CF in the pcmcia slot, now that I have purchased a pcmcia CF adapter to replace the internal one. I too like the silence and the extra 25% or so battery life that results from not using the conventional hard drive. I may also experiment with using the (8GB) CF drive to set up a massive ram disk, by mapping virtual memory to it (details over on LEM), but this is a sort of tinkering that does not involve the pains of 2400c disassembly, and that sounds good to me.