Dear Listreaders, I've got a puzzle. I've owned and enjoyed the model MacAlly CA-250MA 2.5" hard drive enclosure, which under MacOS 8.6 gave me full bootability with my Powerbook 1400. (This device is an external housing into which one puts a standard 2.5" IDE hard drive. The housing has a cable attached to a PCMCIA card that, when plugged into the PC-Card slot on the laptop, allows the external disk to show up on the desktop just like an internal or firewire volume. It offers very fast data transfer rates, and is bus powered--though an external power supply is provided if necessary.)
When I migrated to a G3 Powerbook 2000 "firewire", and Mac OS 9.2, I found that I was no longer able to boot from the PCMCIA drive, as such bootability evidently is not supported on this model powerbook. But at least I still had a handy portable drive. However, I have recently upgraded this Powerbook G3 2000 "firewire" (Pismo) to Mac OS X "Jaguar 10.2.3" and find that the PCMCIA drive is no longer recognized as a volume! (If I startup again in OS 9, the drive works fine). The "Disk Utility" program does not find the PC-Card disk, either. Can anyone explain why Jaguar refuses to acknowledge or access my nice PCMCIA-linked hard drive? And even better, can anyone suggest a fix? I did inquire with MacAlly, but got an unhelpful response about zapping PRAM. Cheers, --Jim. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
