Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-09 Thread Howard R. Katz
I did this for a couple of years on my 5300 before it died, but for a different reason. I never got the locations feature to work when I was using wireless, so I had two setups. Most of the time I booted from the CF--much faster and quieter. The system was set to the CF for primary disk.

Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-08 Thread GalBros
Has anyone ever tried to use another type memory card (like a SD or SM card) other than a CF in an adapter as a HD? I wonder how long it will be until we're all using memory cards as the main HDs in our classic Powerbooks, especially in our SCSI Powerbooks? Mabe someone could create an adapter

Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-08 Thread VICTORIA.DUGGAN
Hi I think that you will find that if you plug a cf to ide adapter into an adtx ide to scsi adapter that will already work and you could have a cf hdd on a 500 powerbook or on a duo. vicki -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-08 Thread Bob C.
Now, THAT would be an item I'd buy immediately! Just imagining a totally silent PowerBook 170... [sigh] I'm afraid that development costs would outweigh any possible market for them, however. Oh, well. Bob - Original Message - I wonder how long it will be until we're

Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-08 Thread darm0k
At 9:02 AM -0500 12/08/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how long it will be until we're all using memory cards as the main HDs in our classic Powerbooks, especially in our SCSI Powerbooks? Mabe someone could create an adapter that hold a memory card and plugs into a Powerbook SCSI HD

Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 8, 2005, at 9:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an example multi-TB device, that will be shown at CES in January. http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html Before anyone gets too excited, that guy's been promising that this stuff is just around the corner or very near

Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-08 Thread Caleb Cupples
VICTORIA.DUGGAN wrote: Hi I think that you will find that if you plug a cf to ide adapter into an adtx ide to scsi adapter that will already work and you could have a cf hdd on a 500 powerbook or on a duo. vicki Does anyone know if this would work on a 190, because I'd like to do that

Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

2005-12-08 Thread darm0k
At 10:34 AM -0700 12/08/2005, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 8, 2005, at 9:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an example multi-TB device, that will be shown at CES in January. http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html Before anyone gets too excited, that guy's been promising that this stuff