5300cs ... its alive!!!

[FacnyFreddy]

Well, I got it brought back to life. I tracked down a NOS 2000MAh battery for a decent price ($39 shipped, last one in stock!) and I swapped for a 58MB memory card. (so I now have 64MB installed) I am doing this until I can finish surgery on the dead factory battery.... project for another day.

The old 500MB drive is making lots of noises... not a good sign. But, no errors yet. So I quickly (as much as can be done) copied the contents of the Mac OS 8.1 boot drive onto the 512MB CF card in a reader/adapter (PCMCIA) and then prepped the new SSD.

[NOTE: I'll get System 7.6.1 + updates loaded onto the Boot7 partition next week]

16GB Sandisk mSATA<->2.5" IDE adapter

It is setup for 8 partitions (boot8, boot7, docs, music, images, data, archive, and VM for virtual memory)

I have one broken foot, but, the rest of it is in pretty good shape.

The PRAM battery is completely dead and I busted the connector removing it from a while back... so I am on the hunt for a replacement cable.

Here is some eye candy for folks to absorb.

 

[Carboy7]

That looks good... real good! Me want!

 

[FacnyFreddy]

And I just realized I can use 3.95gb partitions in 7.6 with hfs standard. I will be redoing this after a while.

 

[FacnyFreddy]

Well, I'm getting unpredictable reboots w/o a working PRAM battery. The one I put together doesn't quite fit correctly, but, it does prove that my systems are more stable after the PRAM is working correctly.

 

[Rajel]

Which msata->IDE adapter did you use? I went with the QNINE $15 on Amazon and it only sometimes works. Ordered the $28 fancy-looking one today, hopefully it's better.
Using the CF card in my 190cs for now, it definitely gets the job done. Dualbooting 7.6.1 and 8.1 like a champ.

 

[danikayser84]

My 190cs uses a 1GB IDE SSD (SimpleTech brand), running 7.6.1 fine (I removed the PRAM battery because it was dead, have not had any issues with the missing PRAM battery other than it turning on as soon as it is plugged in which is normal behavior for dead/missing PRAM)

Just bought a few SanDisk 16GB mSATA SSDs and JM20330 based adapters (this combination seems to be most compatible), plan on putting one in my ThinkPad 600X and my PowerBook 1400cs eventually

 

[FacnyFreddy]

The issue I have is that the 5300cs will not "find" the new drive once it has been removed and rebooted. For some reason, some where in either the nvram or such, it goes looking for a drive that is not there if I remove the original after a hard reset.

The only way I have found to get around this is with a working PRAM battery and then restart the process.

I'd post a youtube, but, I'm not sure it would be of help at this point.