CF Powermonster II + PowerBook 100/180c problems

[perez6991]

Okay so here's the current situation, I cannot install System 7 onto the CFPM after partitioning/initializing it with a patched HD Setup. It gave an error twice about not being able to write to it in my PB180c and my PB100. I popped in my disk tools and ran first aid. And sure enough, "Macintosh HD is damaged and cannot be repaired".

I tried silverlining and it froze while selecting the disk. I have not tried lido since I did the format in a super complicated matter involving a small ramdisk and swapping the HD out when the system was sleeping (that most likely is what killed it, I wouldnt be surprised and I take full blame obviously it was).

Would anyone be able to make some sort of boot disk img with a super light system 6/7 install with lido or whatever tool you use to format non-apple drives? Extreme kudos to anyone that can. All I have is a windows machine to write floppies atm.

Small tidbit, the drive is 2gb in size. Would that matter?

 

[Rajel]

I wouldn't think 2GB would be an issue, I run 2GB partitions on my 160 and 190cs without trouble.

HFSExplorer, combined with BasiliskII (it's included) might work to get you a minimal boot setup written to a floppy. I've used that in Windows with a USB floppy drive and it worked like a champ.

 

[perez6991]

Thank you for your help, I completely forgot Basilisk even existed. I'll try that and report back.

 

[techknight]

I never have had luck with CF cards, they will randomly corrupt themselves, especially if the partition is not aligned. AOMEI will do it, but not sure if it goes back as old as original HFS. 

The only bulletproof solution I have found was using microdrives for CF cards, Sure its technically still a hard drive, but its a more common one and I hadn't had it fail yet. 

The prices tend to be all over the place because of the ipod lovers, there were certain models that used them. 

 

[Rajel]

Yeah, that's an issue with CF cards. Great for read-only systems, but otherwise tend to bork after awhile.
SD cards seem to do it a bit less, but I've still had some trouble.
I wish there was an easier way to pull the cards out of the machines for imaging, I'd love to just be able to pop the SD out of my PB160, dump it to a file every now and then and pop it back in.

 

[register]

Hi, please consider to have a look at the results of already tested combinations of flash memory drives. In the Wiki are some hints to get things up and running, also. Sharing your own findings in the Wiki wold be most welcome. My personal experience with the use of CF or SD cards to replace harddisks is, that you usually come to a very fast and quiet solution, much better than the original harddisk in every aspect. It is just that not any formatting tool likes to play with any memory card. This behaviour is common with harddisks, as well, isn't it?

You might use a card slot extension cable to make the card slot accessible without the need to open the computer, as well. SD to CF adapters are available, as SD to micro SD adapters are, as well. So there is no need to stick with CF cards.