ide-cf adapters: any experience?

[beachycove]

Does anyone here have experience of installing an ide-cf adapter in a powerbook? Is it worth the time & trouble?

 

[Forrest]

I'm not sure any 68K PowerBooks had an IDE drive - most used 2.5 inch SCSI drives.

 

[LCGuy]

PowerBook 150 did, as did the 190 and 190cs.

 

[TylerEss]

I'm hoping to buy a couple IDE-CF adaptors in the middle-near future, so if I do, I'll make sure to post my results for everyone's consumption.

 

[30pin]

My CF adapter showed up today!! It was shipped fast!!! First glitch was there is an extra pin. The harddrive plug off the computer has one pin deleted. So after a five second thought process I bent the pin out of the way and plugged in the adapter. The PB1400 fired up showing flashing floppy. I installed O.S. 7.5.3 onto an older 256mb Kingston CF card. It took a couple of tries to get it finished. It's boots up faster, and everything works about the same, maby a bit faster. I will nip off the extra pin so the adapter sits flush in the harddrive plug in. I had the 256 CF cards handy so I used them. They had a previous life in a camera. I want to get some 1gb CF cards, I will look for older ones, there seems to be problems with newer CF cards. The best thing is the cost of the adapter!! Delivered to my door(Canada) from Hong Kong $3.98U.S. It is awesome to have the PB1400 sitting there running silent!!!!

 

[ChristTrekker]

Sweet. If it were possible to use CF in my CC I'd really consider it, considering how ancient 50-pin SCSI drives are getting.

 

[blackbird]

Hey 30pin where did you get the adapter? Is it a 2.5 scsi-->CF adapter?

 

[Byrd]

Hey 30pin where did you get the adapter? Is it a 2.5 scsi-->CF adapter?

I'm pretty sure he/she is referring to a basic CF-->IDE (or CF-->PCMCIA) adapter which are cheap as cheaps. Now CF-->SCSI for under $5, that'd be nice I'd love one of these but ideally would like a few, but the cost is prohibitive.

JB

 

[register]

I installed O.S. 7.5.3 onto an older 256mb Kingston CF card. It took a couple of tries to get it finished. It's boots up faster, and everything works about the same, maby a bit faster.

Please do your comrades the favor and share your findings in the Wiki page Flash Drive Test Results. Especially exact information on the CF card type/vendor and driver software are useful to multiply your success
As far as I know the PB 1400 (as the PB 150, too) needs a CF card identifying as "fixed media" to (edit: cold-)boot* from the internal drive bay. Does the IDE-CF adaptor have any electronics on the PCB to set such mode or are you lucky to use an industrial CF card ?

*Once the machine has an appropriate driver in RAM, a restart using the CF card as boot disk will work. This works only if booted from another drive in the first place.

 

[Bunsen]

a CF card identifying as "fixed media" to boot

Also known as UDMA - stick that in your search and find it