PB 1400c: IDE to CompactFlash convertor?

#1 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 - 07:29 68kMLA

Is such an item available? I'd like to make myself a silent PowerBook by doing away with the hard drive.

Alternatively, are there similar convertors for SD cards?

#2 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 - 08:17 68kMLA

Yes, there are indeed cheap and plentiful adaptors for these media. Also you can find IDE form factor solid state drives. Do a web search and you should find a glut of them.

Too bad that there's not much out there for flash SCSI...

#3 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 - 16:34 68kMLA

Because they were cheaper I use a pcmcia adapter.

The 1400 will boot from it no problem... even w/o a hdd installed. actually the wallstreet does also, but none after that that I am aware of.

One of the reasons debian is kinda OK on the 1400 [wallstreet]... can put it on a flash drive or the hdd and boot MKLinux from the other..

RP

#4 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 - 04:40 68kMLA

My main concern is write cycles on the CF, since the 1400 is pretty much condemned to use some sort of virtual memory, which is why I never did this on my own 1400. RAM Doubler with memory compression helps a bit here over Apple VM, and write cycles are getting higher and higher, but I'm still leery.