Upgrading my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet II with....

[kite210]

I'm upgrading my Powerbook with an IDE to CF adaptor, and a 2GB CF card.

I'm mainly trying this out to see if there are any speed benefits, but also because my powerbook doesn't currently have a hard drive (had to put it in my thinkpad).

Now to wait for slow shipping from china for the adaptor.

 

[kite210]

Got the adaptor, and it's not compatible with the Wallstreet connector.

I decided to use it in my ThinkPad 600, and it works great, so I put the HDD back in the powerbook.

Oh well, at least I'll get some use out of it.

 

[LCGuy]

How is it not compatible? A couple of months ago I bought a cheap IDE -> CF adapter for the 1400. It had a pin on the bottom row where neither the cable in the PowerBook, nor most hard drives have a pin. I bent that pin 90 degrees away from the connector and have never had an issue with it.

 

[MacJunky]

The adapter I got has the master/slave/cs pins oriented differently than a normal HDD so the WS/PDQ cannot use it because Apple were douches. It would work in any computer that does not try to mess with those jumpers though.(except the powerbook 150, but the PB150 is retarded in it's own way)

 

[kite210]

1. It doesn't have the correct number of pins(there are 44 or the adapter).

2. The WS/PDQ has a pin blocked, and the adapter has the pin.

Either way, not a total loss, since it works in my ThinkPad 600.

 

[LCGuy]

If the pin you describe is the one in the centre on the bottom row, thats the one I was talking about - like I said I just bent it out of the way, and it works great.

 

[JDW]

I've actually been mulling PowerBook G3 Wallstreet PDQ upgrades myself, especially SSDs like this one from OWC:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/SSDMLP040/

They claim it to be 100% compatible with the Wallstreets, and since this is a dedicated SSD and not a CF adapter, I would expect the performance to beat most spinning platter hard drives hands down. It's just that I can't find any benchmarks online for these drives, and no one among us seems to have tried one yet, and the price is $150 plus shipping.

 

[theos911]

I just went the IDE-CF adapter route myself. I used a 266x 16GB Kingston card.

Boot time from chime to loaded desktop went from 1:45 to 1:15. It also feels a lot faster, directory listings show quicker, etc. I'm not sure what to benchmark it with, ideas?

I bent that pin 90 degrees away from the connector and have never had an issue with it.

I had to do that also.

 

[JDW]

We've actually being doing benchmarks with FWB Hard Disk Toolkit in this CF card test thread:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17047