Re: PCMCIA volume not Recognized on Pismo
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. -- 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 volume not Recognized on Pismo
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* Phil Burk Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46256 317.572.3049 phone 317.572.1049 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 volume not Recognized on Pismo
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. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA * Usual disclaimers apply * field servoid [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.: Representative of a field service organization (see field circus). This has many of the implications of droid. -- 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 volume not Recognized on Pismo
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. -- 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 ---
