Re: PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo

[Jim]

Phil,

Yeah, I've tried the restarting thing, with the card inserted.  For the 
record, I've also tried zapping the PRAM and resetting the power 
manager.  It just doesn't show up.  I like your idea about mounting, 
but since Jaguar will mount flash media in PCMCIA cards, it seems 
perplexing.  I would love to know how your "drive shuttle" works (or 
doesn't) under Jaguar.  Is yours the Apricorn "EZ-Gig" variety?  Or 
what?

Anyone else?  TIA.

--Jim.


Phil wrote:
>  Jim, I have one of these drive shuttles - and indeed it used to work 
> just fine under OS 9.
>
>  Now, I haven't used mine in ages (laziness, I guess) but I'm 
> beginning to suspect that OS X isn't recognizing the card as something 
> with which it needs to do something.  You know how when you connect a 
> FireWire drive the volumes on it get automatically mounted?  Well, I 
> think that perhaps automount is run when you insert this card.
>
>  Two things, the first of which is relatively simple.  Have you tried 
> restarting your powerbook with that card inserted?  Second, I wonder 
> if there isn't a Terminal command that might need to be run to get the 
> volumes to mount.
>
>  hmm... *ponders*
>
>  Phil Burk


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Re: PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo

[Phillip Burk]

>> Nope.  Firewire is not involved here.  However, the PCMCIA interface
>> has also been used by the "Kanguru" external drives, among others.  
>> The
>> device shipped with a (floppy) disk of drivers for WinNT, 95, and DOS,
>> but no drivers were needed for Macintosh.
>>
>> I've also just tested the drive on a Powerbook 3400 under OS 8.6, and
>> it works fine there.
>>
>> It begins to sound like drivers are not built-in to Jaguar, and I 
>> guess
>> this is such a niche market that there never will be any.  Alas.

Jim, I have one of these drive shuttles - and indeed it used to work 
just fine under OS 9.

Now, I haven't used mine in ages (laziness, I guess) but I'm beginning 
to suspect that OS X isn't recognizing the card as something with which 
it needs to do something.  You know how when you connect a FireWire 
drive the volumes on it get automatically mounted?  Well, I think that 
perhaps automount is run when you insert this card.

Two things, the first of which is relatively simple.  Have you tried 
restarting your powerbook with that card inserted?  Second, I wonder if 
there isn't a Terminal command that might need to be run to get the 
volumes to mount.

hmm... *ponders*

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Re: PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo

[wappling]

Re; I want to add more USB ports to my powerbook, may I ask which if any
brands of PCMCIA cards you have used work OK? thankyou



on 1/16/03 4:28 PM, Jim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>> Can anyone explain why Jaguar refuses to acknowledge or access my
>> nice
>>> PCMCIA-linked hard drive?  And even better, can anyone suggest a fix?
>> 
>> Is your PCMCIA card a FireWire card? If not, then this is somekind of
>> proprietary interface which doesn't have a driver for in OS X. Do you
>> remember installing anything under 9 with it? Even if you say no, that
>> would
>> probably be not conclusive, since there is much better PCMCIA support
>> in 9
>> then there is in X. The only PCMCIA I've seen working in X were USB and
>> FireWire cards.
>> 
>> -Laurent.
> 
> 
> Laurent,
> 
> Nope.  Firewire is not involved here.  However, the PCMCIA interface
> has also been used by the "Kanguru" external drives, among others.  The
> device shipped with a (floppy) disk of drivers for WinNT, 95, and DOS,
> but no drivers were needed for Macintosh.
> 
> I've also just tested the drive on a Powerbook 3400 under OS 8.6, and
> it works fine there.
> 
> It begins to sound like drivers are not built-in to Jaguar, and I guess
> this is such a niche market that there never will be any.  Alas.
> 
> --Jim.
> 


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Re: PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo

[Jim]

> > Can anyone explain why Jaguar refuses to acknowledge or access my 
> nice
> > PCMCIA-linked hard drive?  And even better, can anyone suggest a fix?
>
> Is your PCMCIA card a FireWire card? If not, then this is somekind of
> proprietary interface which doesn't have a driver for in OS X. Do you
> remember installing anything under 9 with it? Even if you say no, that 
> would
> probably be not conclusive, since there is much better PCMCIA support 
> in 9
> then there is in X. The only PCMCIA I've seen working in X were USB and
> FireWire cards.
>
> -Laurent.


Laurent,

Nope.  Firewire is not involved here.  However, the PCMCIA interface 
has also been used by the "Kanguru" external drives, among others.  The 
device shipped with a (floppy) disk of drivers for WinNT, 95, and DOS, 
but no drivers were needed for Macintosh.

I've also just tested the drive on a Powerbook 3400 under OS 8.6, and 
it works fine there.

It begins to sound like drivers are not built-in to Jaguar, and I guess 
this is such a niche market that there never will be any.  Alas.

--Jim.


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Re: PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo

[Jim]

Oh, I should comment:

> 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.

When I plug the PC-Card into my Pismo, I *do* get a little PCMCIA 
icon/menu in my menu-bar, to the right of the "help" menu and to the 
left of the battery indicator.  This "menu" lists three entries, 
"Shining" (greyed out), "PMIDE-ASC" (greyed out), and "Power off Card" 
which does exactly what you might think it would.

The Apple System Profiler does show that there is a PC-Card present; 
type=cardbus; model=TXN,PCI1211-00; vendor ID=104c; device ID=ac1e.

Thanks for any and all help/suggestions!

--Jim.


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Re: PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 16/01/03 15:39, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip!]
> Can anyone explain why Jaguar refuses to acknowledge or access my nice
> PCMCIA-linked hard drive?  And even better, can anyone suggest a fix?

Is your PCMCIA card a FireWire card? If not, then this is somekind of
proprietary interface which doesn't have a driver for in OS X. Do you
remember installing anything under 9 with it? Even if you say no, that would
probably be not conclusive, since there is much better PCMCIA support in 9
then there is in X. The only PCMCIA I've seen working in X were USB and
FireWire cards.

-Laurent.
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PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo

[Jim]

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.


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