raoulduke said:

Cool.  I'll check that out next time I try.  Just ordered a 128mb 100x CF card and CF to IDE adapter because at that speed/size CF is cheaper.  [it's for a 5300cs I bought as a parts repository for a 5300c, but they both work well at the moment.]

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You bought 100 CF's? Damn! Depending on the system, it might not fit on 128MB.  I know System 7 will not fit on 64Megs without some trimming of the system and removal of a lot of extensions and control panels. I have 3 PCMCIA flash memory cards as emergency boot disks if the hard drive fails on some of my laptops.

The PCMCIA Cards is like this (I seen SanDisk make up to a 1.2GB Unit):


The CF > PCMCIA Adapter (works with most CF's I tried, though the CFs have to be properly partitioned and formatted):

 
On most Mac Laptops, I find that the PCMCIA boots faster than on the IDE, even with the same CF Cards. This is because the PCMCIA is connected directly to the Databus while the IDE has to go through a series of buffers that slows things down.
 
You can check out this link, it was for a 1400 > CF/IDE set up and I helped out with a few details:
https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23406-booting-from-a-compact-flash-drive/page-2&do=findComment&comment=244873
 
The 5300 and others set up the same way.