Byrd
Well-known member
Hey,
Quick question: does a Powerbook 540 with card cage (in this case, a revision C model) allow you to boot from a PCMCIA-->CF adapter?
And for those that have: what was the performance like - can it easily outperform any SCSI hard disk on the 5x0 machines?
In the 40+ deg heat today I've been playing around with a generic PCMCIA-->CF adapter and cheap 2GB CF card, on a Powerbook 3400 and Powerbook 2400. Both let you boot from the card, but the 2400 performs considerably faster than the 3400 with the same OS installed on the CF card. This is confusing as both have very similar PCMCIA chipsets. Of course neither Powerbook performs as well with a CF card vs. a fast IDE hard disk, in this case both machines have a 5400RPM 40GB drive installed. On a Powerbook 5300c, the CF card is definately faster in use when compared to the slow 6GB IDE hard disk currently installed.
Since I'm soon to be the proud recipient of a card cage for my PB540 (courtesy of conceitedjerk), having a ~ 4GB CF drive as my boot volume could solve all my problems of a lack of disk space and reasonable disk performance on this machine (currently a stock 350MB SCSI HD). It just seems that PCMCIA performance differs wildly on Mac notebooks, so when it arrives I'll be keen to see how it goes
Thanks
JB
Quick question: does a Powerbook 540 with card cage (in this case, a revision C model) allow you to boot from a PCMCIA-->CF adapter?
And for those that have: what was the performance like - can it easily outperform any SCSI hard disk on the 5x0 machines?
In the 40+ deg heat today I've been playing around with a generic PCMCIA-->CF adapter and cheap 2GB CF card, on a Powerbook 3400 and Powerbook 2400. Both let you boot from the card, but the 2400 performs considerably faster than the 3400 with the same OS installed on the CF card. This is confusing as both have very similar PCMCIA chipsets. Of course neither Powerbook performs as well with a CF card vs. a fast IDE hard disk, in this case both machines have a 5400RPM 40GB drive installed. On a Powerbook 5300c, the CF card is definately faster in use when compared to the slow 6GB IDE hard disk currently installed.
Since I'm soon to be the proud recipient of a card cage for my PB540 (courtesy of conceitedjerk), having a ~ 4GB CF drive as my boot volume could solve all my problems of a lack of disk space and reasonable disk performance on this machine (currently a stock 350MB SCSI HD). It just seems that PCMCIA performance differs wildly on Mac notebooks, so when it arrives I'll be keen to see how it goes
Thanks
JB
