LimeiBook86
Well-known member
Hello guys,
So I have this Macintosh Freestyle Tablet (basically a PowerBook 5300). The problem is the hard drive overheated I believe and has been acting funky ever-since. Alternatively I put in a 2GB IDE drive from my PowerBook G3, but that didn't seem to be recognized at all.
So I was looking around online and saw these CompactFlash to IDE adapters for only $10. I was thinking if I got one of those it would be easier to use instead of relying on an old, possible dying hard drive.
Now my question is will this work? It seems that you don't need any drivers, but I was reading this article on LowEndMac where it was used on a PowerBook 1400, now they said it works fine, but it was picky about which CompactFlash cards were used.
So I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in the area. I mean for $10 it's not bad at all, also ComfactFlash cards are pretty cheap too - under $9 for a 1GB one. Then I can even hook the card up to my Mac and copy over the tablet's HD contents that I backed up.
Photos of the Freestyle. It would never keep an OS installed, installation was SO slow, and eventually I got odd read errors about the CD although the disk was fine (This happened on two install CDs), which leads me to think it was the HD.
Thanks!
-Steve
So I have this Macintosh Freestyle Tablet (basically a PowerBook 5300). The problem is the hard drive overheated I believe and has been acting funky ever-since. Alternatively I put in a 2GB IDE drive from my PowerBook G3, but that didn't seem to be recognized at all.
So I was looking around online and saw these CompactFlash to IDE adapters for only $10. I was thinking if I got one of those it would be easier to use instead of relying on an old, possible dying hard drive.
Now my question is will this work? It seems that you don't need any drivers, but I was reading this article on LowEndMac where it was used on a PowerBook 1400, now they said it works fine, but it was picky about which CompactFlash cards were used.
So I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in the area. I mean for $10 it's not bad at all, also ComfactFlash cards are pretty cheap too - under $9 for a 1GB one. Then I can even hook the card up to my Mac and copy over the tablet's HD contents that I backed up.
Photos of the Freestyle. It would never keep an OS installed, installation was SO slow, and eventually I got odd read errors about the CD although the disk was fine (This happened on two install CDs), which leads me to think it was the HD.
Thanks!
-Steve