FSTN film is available now on AliExpress, it's just often expensive. No clue how the US tariffs would affect that now though, might be prohibitively expensive.
I finally rebuilt mine a few months ago, I get about 2.5 hours from it with moderate usage. This was using Tenergy 4/3A cells. Will have to see how it holds up in the long term.
It could be shot, you won’t know until you charge it with a 3400 or a G3 Kanga. Whatever the process is to get one working on a 5300, if such a thing exists, I don’t know right now.
I have read some old forum posts from the 2000s where multiple people state they have Lithium batteries working in their 5300. Someone said they must be running the original 7.5.2 firmware, but my 5300 won't run off a 3400c battery even if I'm running that version. Another thing I've heard is...
All the updated cap reference info is now up!
Duo 280c: http://www.macdat.net/repair/cap_reference/apple/powerbook/duo280c.html
Duo MiniDock: http://www.macdat.net/repair/cap_reference/apple/powerbook/duo_minidock.html
Duo AC Adapter...
New website update with the updated Macintosh Portal is out now! I also put up some new PowerBook Duo-related cap reference, and some more PowerBook developer notes and other stuff.
https://www.macdat.net
If this is an equivalent to the blinking floppy icon, it could be that the ZuluSCSI is taking a few seconds to start up. My BlueSCSI V2s take a little extra time to get themselves "ready" before they boot. Maybe not 10 seconds, but enough that I do get the floppy icon for a couple seconds before...
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