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    Troubleshooting booting from CF card using IODATA idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter

    Hi s_pupp, Thanks heaps for the tip. FWB Hard Disk Toolkit v3 did the trick! I am now able to boot successfully off the 2gb Transcend cf card in the iodata idsc21-e. Thanks so much for that. Best regards, Motu
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    Troubleshooting booting from CF card using IODATA idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter

    Thanks s_pupp, I will give that a try
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    Troubleshooting booting from CF card using IODATA idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter

    I have had success with this iodata idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter/ide cf card adapter in my Atari Falcon, my Atari TT and three of my vintage Akai sound samplers (s2000, s3200 & s5000), all have been able to boot from the cf card. Unfortunately the Macintosh is not wanting to boot from the cf...
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    Troubleshooting booting from CF card using IODATA idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter

    The external SCSI enclosure has the iodata idsc21-e connected to an ide cf card adapter (the jumper on this is set to master), on the back of the enclosure it has 2 x female centronics 50 sockets, one goes to the powerbook 520c via a centronics 50 to db25 scsi cable and the other has my BlueSCSI...
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    Troubleshooting booting from CF card using IODATA idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter

    Yes, it looks exactly like that. I have it fitted inside an external scsi hdd enclosure connected via a Macintosh hdi 30 scsi adapter.
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    Troubleshooting booting from CF card using IODATA idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter

    I have tried the iodata with both termination on and termination off (by means of a jumper just like on BlueSCSI). It refuses to boot either way. Noob Mac question alert... Is there a type of open firmware I can access on the powerbook 520c that might allow me to grant boot access at a deeper...
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    Troubleshooting booting from CF card using IODATA idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter

    Hi there, I have been trying to boot my PowerBook 520c from an external SCSI hdd enclosure housing an Iodata idsc21-e scsi to ide adapter connected to a ide cf card adapter and a 2gb Transcend cf card. I have been able to install an image of system 7.6.1 (the same image I am to successfully boot...
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