Re: USB on a PB1400?
on 15/6/02 5:09 am, Flint Million (PB List) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, most Mac laptops will never support USB. However, there is light at the end of your tunnel: get your hands on a Mac with a PC Card slot. Namely, the 5300 series and the 1400 series, if i remember right, have a PCMCIA slot. The slots on these computers are not CardBus compatible, and since USB is a 32-bit interface and requires the 32-bit capabilities of CardBus, using a PCMCIA USB adapter is out. However, if all you need to do is read CF cards, go out to Best Buy or any decent computer store and pick up a CompactFlash-to-PCMCIA card adapter (about $10-15). This little device is shaped exactly like a PCMCIA card, and has a space to slide in your CF card. When this is done, and you install it in a slot on your PB, it will appear on the desktop just like another hard disk. When you eject it, the card itself should actually pop out of the slot. You can also find adapters for Smart Media, MMC, and Memory Stick memory cards that will convert any of those cards to a PCMCIA card. The only thing you must ensure is that the adapter will emulate a PCMCIA ATA disk. For the CF adapters this is a given because all CF cards emulate an ATA disk (basically, they pretend to be an IDE hard drive!) and the adapter does nothing of its own except to put the square peg in the round hole (it makes the pins on the CF card match their equivalents in the PCMCIA slot). However, for other memory standards compatibility is entirely up to the adapter because the memory cards themselves do not emulate ATA. I would feel pretty confident however that any PCMCIA adapter would emulate an ATA disk so basically any PCMCIA flash memory should be compatible. I've successfully read CF cards and Smart Media cards using the aforementioned adapters and even have used the older full-size PCMCIA Type II memory cards in a 5300 with no problems under Mac OS 8.1. If the 1400 has PC card slots (I'm pretty sure it does) you shouldn't have any problems when and if you get one. I'm not sure if there are any OS issues on OS'es other than 8.1, but hopefully everything will just work as it always should on a Mac. Good luck On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Craig wrote: I'm new on here and I'm looking at some used PB1400's. Everything I've read while reseaching says no USB connection can be made with a 1400. Is this true? If not what about a Compact Flash card reader? I need something to download images from a Digital Camera on the road. I don't want or need to spend a fortune for something that's not going to be used a lot. But I've always liked the 1400's. Does anybody out there know how easy it is to get a Wallstreet 'USB'd?? Cheers, Simon -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: USB on a PB1400?
Does anybody out there know how easy it is to get a Wallstreet 'USB'd? Very. Buy a USB PC card. Install Apple's USB CardBus Support if it's not installed already. Plug in. Go. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac http://www.insanely-great.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RD's PowerBook page: http://www.macpowerbook.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: USB on a PB1400?
First of all, most Mac laptops will never support USB. ??? Perhaps you mean those laptops before the 3400 series? Everything from the 3400 up can easily take a USB card AFAIK, if USB is not already built in. Beverly However, there is light at the end of your tunnel: get your hands on a Mac with a PC Card slot. Namely, the 5300 series and the 1400 series, if i remember right, have a PCMCIA slot. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: USB on a PB1400?
webmaster wrote: on 15/6/02 5:09 am, Flint Million (PB List) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, most Mac laptops will never support USB. However, there is light at the end of your tunnel: get your hands on a Mac with a PC Card slot. Namely, the 5300 series and the 1400 series, if i remember right, have a PCMCIA slot. Uhhh.. perhaps not 'most' in number of models, but, I'd say a huge number of Mac laptops in existence today do indeed support USB! Does anybody out there know how easy it is to get a Wallstreet 'USB'd?? Yeah, get a USB PCMCIA card... -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: USB on a PB1400?
on 6/15/02 7:40 AM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:36:01 + Subject: USB on a PB1400? From: Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm new on here and I'm looking at some used PB1400's. Everything I've read while reseaching says no USB connection can be made with a 1400. Is this true? If not what about a Compact Flash card reader? I need something to download images from a Digital Camera on the road. I don't want or need to spend a fortune for something that's not going to be used a lot. But I've always liked the 1400's. -- I assume you've already received other posts, but just FYI, I use a Sandisk card reader with a 128mb Sandisk CF card in the upper PCMCIA slot, and a Global Village fax/modem in the lower. The 1400 has poor memory expansion (64mb max) and my current HD is full, so I use the Mac-formatted 128mb card for Virtual RAM, thus it stays in there most of the time. Access time is slow, but it keeps it from crashing. For transferring pictures and data, I reset VRAM (Memory control panel) to the HD (at much less) and shut down. Then I remove the formatted 128mb CF card, and stick in my 64mb data card, and startup. Now I can load apps, data, pictures, etc. onto it, eject it when finished and slip it into my pocket to take to my G4 at another location. Of course, to get my VRAM card back in operation, I have to put it back in, reset the VRAM and restart. It's a good workaround for now, until I get my new HD (more space for VRAM) mounted. Then I can just use it for pictures and data. So, yes, you can get PC card readers for any ATA- or 16 bit- compatible devices. Using a CF card for pictures is the usual. You can even get a 1g IBM Microdrive for about $350 that fits right into the same CF card reader. I, too, wish it had a 32 bit cardbus slot, but there's really not much you can do about it, short of mounting a Sonnet G3 motherboard, then designing and building a cardbus compatible slot yourself, from scratch. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: USB on a PB1400?
You guys are great! Thanks a bunch for all the great info. I may rethink and get a 1400 after all. I was all prepared to bid on one, the other day, and I asked the seller a few ?'s and mentioned USB and the guy was honest enough to email me back and say that he didn't think it would be USB compatible. Takes a good seller to actually tell someone info like that. The unit that I was inquiring about is still up for grabs but it's gone a little too high for me. If I get one I'm sure I'll have more ?'s. Thanks again, Craig LC, 6200/75, 6400/200 and iMac/400DV on 6/15/02 5:09 AM, Flint Million (PB List) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, most Mac laptops will never support USB. However, there is light at the end of your tunnel: get your hands on a Mac with a PC Card slot. Namely, the 5300 series and the 1400 series, if i remember right, have a PCMCIA slot. The slots on these computers are not CardBus compatible, and since USB is a 32-bit interface and requires the 32-bit capabilities of CardBus, using a PCMCIA USB adapter is out. However, if all you need to do is read CF cards, go out to Best Buy or any decent computer store and pick up a CompactFlash-to-PCMCIA card adapter (about $10-15). This little device is shaped exactly like a PCMCIA card, and has a space to slide in your CF card. When this is done, and you install it in a slot on your PB, it will appear on the desktop just like another hard disk. When you eject it, the card itself should actually pop out of the slot. You can also find adapters for Smart Media, MMC, and Memory Stick memory cards that will convert any of those cards to a PCMCIA card. The only thing you must ensure is that the adapter will emulate a PCMCIA ATA disk. For the CF adapters this is a given because all CF cards emulate an ATA disk (basically, they pretend to be an IDE hard drive!) and the adapter does nothing of its own except to put the square peg in the round hole (it makes the pins on the CF card match their equivalents in the PCMCIA slot). However, for other memory standards compatibility is entirely up to the adapter because the memory cards themselves do not emulate ATA. I would feel pretty confident however that any PCMCIA adapter would emulate an ATA disk so basically any PCMCIA flash memory should be compatible. I've successfully read CF cards and Smart Media cards using the aforementioned adapters and even have used the older full-size PCMCIA Type II memory cards in a 5300 with no problems under Mac OS 8.1. If the 1400 has PC card slots (I'm pretty sure it does) you shouldn't have any problems when and if you get one. I'm not sure if there are any OS issues on OS'es other than 8.1, but hopefully everything will just work as it always should on a Mac. Good luck On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Craig wrote: I'm new on here and I'm looking at some used PB1400's. Everything I've read while reseaching says no USB connection can be made with a 1400. Is this true? If not what about a Compact Flash card reader? I need something to download images from a Digital Camera on the road. I don't want or need to spend a fortune for something that's not going to be used a lot. But I've always liked the 1400's. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
USB on a PB1400?
I'm new on here and I'm looking at some used PB1400's. Everything I've read while reseaching says no USB connection can be made with a 1400. Is this true? If not what about a Compact Flash card reader? I need something to download images from a Digital Camera on the road. I don't want or need to spend a fortune for something that's not going to be used a lot. But I've always liked the 1400's. -- Thanks, Craig LC, 6200/75, 6400/200 and iMac/400DV -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: USB on a PB1400?
First of all, most Mac laptops will never support USB. However, there is light at the end of your tunnel: get your hands on a Mac with a PC Card slot. Namely, the 5300 series and the 1400 series, if i remember right, have a PCMCIA slot. The slots on these computers are not CardBus compatible, and since USB is a 32-bit interface and requires the 32-bit capabilities of CardBus, using a PCMCIA USB adapter is out. However, if all you need to do is read CF cards, go out to Best Buy or any decent computer store and pick up a CompactFlash-to-PCMCIA card adapter (about $10-15). This little device is shaped exactly like a PCMCIA card, and has a space to slide in your CF card. When this is done, and you install it in a slot on your PB, it will appear on the desktop just like another hard disk. When you eject it, the card itself should actually pop out of the slot. You can also find adapters for Smart Media, MMC, and Memory Stick memory cards that will convert any of those cards to a PCMCIA card. The only thing you must ensure is that the adapter will emulate a PCMCIA ATA disk. For the CF adapters this is a given because all CF cards emulate an ATA disk (basically, they pretend to be an IDE hard drive!) and the adapter does nothing of its own except to put the square peg in the round hole (it makes the pins on the CF card match their equivalents in the PCMCIA slot). However, for other memory standards compatibility is entirely up to the adapter because the memory cards themselves do not emulate ATA. I would feel pretty confident however that any PCMCIA adapter would emulate an ATA disk so basically any PCMCIA flash memory should be compatible. I've successfully read CF cards and Smart Media cards using the aforementioned adapters and even have used the older full-size PCMCIA Type II memory cards in a 5300 with no problems under Mac OS 8.1. If the 1400 has PC card slots (I'm pretty sure it does) you shouldn't have any problems when and if you get one. I'm not sure if there are any OS issues on OS'es other than 8.1, but hopefully everything will just work as it always should on a Mac. Good luck On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Craig wrote: I'm new on here and I'm looking at some used PB1400's. Everything I've read while reseaching says no USB connection can be made with a 1400. Is this true? If not what about a Compact Flash card reader? I need something to download images from a Digital Camera on the road. I don't want or need to spend a fortune for something that's not going to be used a lot. But I've always liked the 1400's. -- Flint Million Mailing from PowerBook address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Send personal correspondence to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
