Re: PCMCIA Card
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Brian McEwen wrote: USB/firewire combo external drives are kinda spendy most places, but OWC has some for pretty decent prices. I went to Pricewatch.com and bought just a $35 firewire/usb housing to go with a great deal on a 160gb IDE drive. -Dylan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: PCMCIA Card
My Titanium 1GHz powerbook has a slot in the side which I vaguely believe is supposed to take a PCMCIA card, although the manual that came with the powerbook says nothing about it. The PB has USB but not USB 2.0. Maplin have a USB 2.0 PCMCIA Card (no maker's name given) on promotion. They say For use in PC card slot Type II, and suitable for Windows 98 SE or higher PCs. They don't mention the Mac. Is the slot in my PB a Type II slot? Would it take the PCMCIA card? If all that worked, I could get a Western Digital External USB 2.0 hard drive which is also on promotion. Would all this work? Or does the card need a PC only? Mike -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: PCMCIA Card
On Jul 21, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Michel Treisman wrote: My Titanium 1GHz powerbook has a slot in the side which I vaguely believe is supposed to take a PCMCIA card, although the manual that came with the powerbook says nothing about it. The PB has USB but not USB 2.0. Maplin have a USB 2.0 PCMCIA Card (no maker's name given) on promotion. They say For use in PC card slot Type II, and suitable for Windows 98 SE or higher PCs. They don't mention the Mac. Is the slot in my PB a Type II slot? Would it take the PCMCIA card? If all that worked, I could get a Western Digital External USB 2.0 hard drive which is also on promotion. It should work with your TiBook, but I'd suggest using a Firewire drive instead. It's a faster sustained speed than USB 2 and you already have the Firewire capability in your 'book now. - Dylan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: PCMCIA Card
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote: It should work with your TiBook, but I'd suggest using a Firewire drive instead. It's a faster sustained speed than USB 2 and you already have the Firewire capability in your 'book now. USB/firewire combo external drives are kinda spendy most places, but OWC has some for pretty decent prices. I have had one for quite a while and it's been good. I just got a second for my wife's desktop, for backup purposes. HTH. B -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: PCMCIA card cages
Hey gang, Can anyone tell me whether I can transplant a 32-bit CardBus PCMCIA card cage from a G3 'Book into a 2400c? They are not the same part. AT the very minimum you would need to make a custom wiring harness, and that assumes the cages use the same controller chip. MCE charges $99 for Cardbus-enabling a 2400c. I doubt that any shop would bother to do it if it's at all complicated or time consuming. I gotta believe it's something super simple to do with proper tools, and a card cage transplant sure fills that bill. I have a hunch the card cages use the same controller; if so, how hard/expensive to make that harness? Sometime in the not-too-distant future I'll be disassembling a Comet for a case mod project. While I have it opened up might as well max out any and all possible upgrades Gene, a.k.a. G-Man Never swallow anything bigger than your pride -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: PCMCIA card cages
Can anyone tell me whether I can transplant a 32-bit CardBus PCMCIA card cage from a G3 'Book into a 2400c? They are not the same part... MCE charges $99 for Cardbus-enabling a 2400c. ... I have a hunch the card cages use the same controller; if so, how hard/expensive to make that harness? Have you checked this web site? Lots of great 2400c info. Toward the bottom of the page is specific stuff on making the 2400c slot cardbus compatible. Might be worth a look. http://webobjects.uwaterloo.ca/mac2400/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: PCMCIA card cages
Hey gang, Can anyone tell me whether I can transplant a 32-bit CardBus PCMCIA card cage from a G3 'Book into a 2400c? They are not the same part. AT the very minimum you would need to make a custom wiring harness, and that assumes the cages use the same controller chip. Mad Dog -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: PCMCIA card and Wallstreet
on 03/12/03 00:02, Andre Ruegg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just purchased my first PCMCIA card (a combo USB 2 and Firewire) card for my Wallstreet. I am surprised by the amount of force it seems to require to properly seat the card. Is this normal or is there a problem with the card. The card should be fine. The force that it requires is probably due to the nature of the PCMCIA card cage and the springs that push the card out when you eject it from the system or by pressing one of the little button. As has been documented before, the design of the ejection mechanism in the Wallstreet was problematic. I had to replace the card cage 3 times when I had a Wallstreet. Apple changed the design completely with the Lombard and later, the Pismo, for a push lever. No springs anymore that put constantly that pressure on the card, so the laptop can eject it. I would suggest that you whether keep the card all the time, or you just use it when you need it... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] C Programmer's Disease n.: The tendency of the undisciplined C programmer to set arbitrary but supposedly generous static limits on table sizes (defined, if you're lucky, by constants in header files) rather than taking the trouble to do proper dynamic storage allocation. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: PCMCIA card and Wallstreet
on 12/2/03 11:21 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 03/12/03 00:02, Andre Ruegg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just purchased my first PCMCIA card (a combo USB 2 and Firewire) card for my Wallstreet. I am surprised by the amount of force it seems to require to properly seat the card. Is this normal or is there a problem with the card. The card should be fine. The force that it requires is probably due to the nature of the PCMCIA card cage and the springs that push the card out when you eject it from the system or by pressing one of the little button. As has been documented before, the design of the ejection mechanism in the Wallstreet was problematic. I had to replace the card cage 3 times when I had a Wallstreet. Apple changed the design completely with the Lombard and later, the Pismo, for a push lever. No springs anymore that put constantly that pressure on the card, so the laptop can eject it. I would suggest that you whether keep the card all the time, or you just use it when you need it... Thanks. That is good to know. Andre -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: PCMCIA Card FireWire question
gianfranco wrote: Are there any performance issues concerning PCMCIA FireWire against built in FireWire on a G3 Powerbook? I'm willing to use a Lombard 333 with a MOTU FirwWire audio interface (828 MKII) for HD recording and I was warned by a vendor about possible hitces with PCMCIA FireWire and OS 9.x. He was not specificallu referring to the MOTU hardware, rather making it a more general issue, which i find rather surprising. Is there a issue? If yes, would OS X make a difference? Anyone has any first hand experience, even if with different applications? Perhaps not terribly relevant to your question but here's some FW card vs. onboard test results I posted to this list back in April. --- using ATTO's ExpressPro-Tools 2.7 'Benchmark Volume' utility with a LaCie 60GB FW desktop drive (Oxford 911 chipset). Pismo (9.2.1) onboard FW: peak read= 20.17 MB/s sust'd read= 16.76 MB/s peak write= 14.21 MB/s sust'd write= 14.16 MB/s Pismo with FW2Go cardbus card, v1.01 driver: peak read= 38.51 MB/s sust'd read= 30.91 MB/s peak write= 9.99 MB/s sust'd write = 9.98 MB/s 3400 (9.1) with FW2Go cardbus card (original non-cardbus cage BTW): peak read= 1.99 MB/s sust'd read= 1.721 MB/s peak write= 7.32 MB/s sust'd write = 7.27 MB/s And for reference, here's the same drive on some desktop Macs- 9600/G3 (9.1) w/FW PCI card: peak read= 30.36 MB/s sust'd read= 27.20 MB/s peak write= 23.42 MB/s sust'd write = 23.34 MB/s Beige G3/83mhz bus (9.2.1) w/FW/USB PCI card: peak read= 32.54 MB/s sust'd read= 30.85 MB/s peak write= 20.94 MB/s sust'd write = 20.85 MB/s The Pismo's onboard FW read performance seems a tad pokey compared with the FW2Go, but then the FW2Go card had stinky write speeds . . . Wierd how the 3400's reads were soo slow. --- NewerTech FW2Go cards are available here: http://www.technowarehousellc.com/firewiremac.html OWC sells a Mac-compatible Century-brand FW cardbus card. At under US$28 that's worth a try too. http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_MailList.cfm?ID=5006Item=CEN1394PCMCIA Dan K . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 . -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: PCMCIA Card slot problem
I have the Tibook, running OS 10.2.6 with 1024MB of RAM. I haven't installed anything recently that I can remember, and I don't have another powerbook or machine with a pc card slot to test the card. So, I bit the bullet and bought a new card last night. I should have it today. Hopefully it works. Brendan On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 08:14 PM, James Rohde wrote: On 07/10/2003, Brendan McAlpine wrote: All of a sudden, my orinoco gold card doesn't do anything when I insert it into the PCMCIA slot in my powerbook. Before I assume the card died and buy another one, is there any way for me to test (without a second card) whether or not the slot itself has died somehow? The card is a couple of years old, but it is in excellent condition and I'm not sure why it would just stop working. Brendan, I'm sure that those who can answer your question will ask this, but: 1) Which model of PowerBook (Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo, etc.) do you have? 2) How much RAM in it? 3) MacOS you're running (9.2.2, X.2.6, etc.)? 4) Any new software installed since last time you successfully used the Orinoco (including extensions installed)? 5) Have you tried the card in another PowerBook to see if it works in another? Those answers will help pinpoint the problem, hopefully. Jim Rohde -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: PCMCIA Card slot problem
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, Brendan wrote: All of a sudden, my orinoco gold card doesn't do anything when I insert it into the PCMCIA slot in my powerbook. Which model PowerBook? What version OS are you running? Before I assume the card died and buy another one, is there any way for me to test (without a second card) whether or not the slot itself has died somehow? What does the Apple System Profiler show? The card is a couple of years old, but it is in excellent condition and I'm not sure why it would just stop working. Did you make any changes to hardware or add any software programs or updates just before this symptom occurred? Lor -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: PCMCIA Card slot problem
On 07/10/2003, Brendan McAlpine wrote: All of a sudden, my orinoco gold card doesn't do anything when I insert it into the PCMCIA slot in my powerbook. Before I assume the card died and buy another one, is there any way for me to test (without a second card) whether or not the slot itself has died somehow? The card is a couple of years old, but it is in excellent condition and I'm not sure why it would just stop working. Brendan, I'm sure that those who can answer your question will ask this, but: 1) Which model of PowerBook (Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo, etc.) do you have? 2) How much RAM in it? 3) MacOS you're running (9.2.2, X.2.6, etc.)? 4) Any new software installed since last time you successfully used the Orinoco (including extensions installed)? 5) Have you tried the card in another PowerBook to see if it works in another? Those answers will help pinpoint the problem, hopefully. Jim Rohde -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
