Powerbook 1400 CS 166MHz and Compact Flash

[HAL2001]

Hi,

I bought the CF2IDE print and a 64GB CF card. Yes I know, 64GB is ridiculously large but I got it cheap. I own a PowerBook 1400cs 166MHz and I want the CF as my start up disk. I can read and write to the CF card on the CF2IDE card in OS 9 on another PowerBook. The 1400cs has 8.1 on it. I formatted the CF card with 1 partition in MacOS standard. I copied the contents of the old hard disk to the CF-card but I am not able to make it my start up disk. The PowerBook doesn't't see it. I am able to start up from it using a CF-reader in the PC card slot. It works great in there but when I attach it to the internal IDE-cable it doesn't work at all.

What am I doing wrong? I tried 2 partitions. One which was 11GB. That's the same amount as the original hard disk is so I thought that should work. But I read that a partition of 64GB should work in OS 8.1. 

Okay, who has some thoughts?

Thanks! 

 

[Fizzbinn]

What specific CF2IDE adaptor are you using? If it has jumpers you could double check it’s set to master, not slave or cable select (CS).
 

The IDE implementation on the 1400 seems to be picky about the adapters it will work with, the more modern/fancy ones seem likely more problematic to me. 
 

I could not get this one to work in my 1400:
Syba Dual Compact Flash CF to 44 Pin IDE/PATA 2.5" Adapter Enclosure, Black SD-ADA45006

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036DDXUM/

But had no problems with this simpler one:

CY CF Compact Flash Merory Card to Laptop 2.5 44 Pins Male IDE Hard Disk Drive HDD SSD Adapter

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S6GIHS2/

I think it might be that you need one that doesn’t support UMDA modes?

 

[HAL2001]

I use this one.

 

[nymunariya]

I know it's a bit late, but I put a simliar ide2cf adapter in my 1400 and can easily boot a Transcend CF 133x 8GB card (I figured slower and smaller would make it easier to boot). I'd like to buy a 16GB card, but I'm worrying about it not being able to boot, as the same 1400 kept throwing up errors during install and couldn't even initialise the drive.

Did you ever get the 64GB card to work?