1.67 ghz powerbook g4 issues

[Old Man McGuggins]

You mean use an IDE hard drive with something that expects a CF card? I think it may be possible. There's an adapter to use mSATA SSDs with cameras that use CFast cards, i.e. CF's successor, so the idea isn't new.


CF to 40pin (desktop) IDE adapters have a power connector (often 3.5" floppy drive style) on them.
CF to 44pin (laptop) IDE adapters don't because the power is coming from those four extra pins.

I see.

My only wish is that cf cards get back into production more, because currently there's a shortage at best buy. They had to special order me some and they could only find like 3 to stock.

Manufacturers, get on it! With 1, even 2 TB usb drives and 1 TB micro sd cards, all without using msata or m.2, purely what they can cram on board, a cf card could be bonkers now. Sure it wouldn't be that fast, but if we can fit 1 to 2 TB (for real, Kingston and Patriot have) on a usb and 1 TB on a micro SD, we could fit like 4 TB in a CF, and tons of machines already have CF ports.

I can't think of many good reasons future portable drives shouldn't be in CF form other than the IDE bus! Plus it'd make small CF card prices go way down!

 

[B S Magnet]

My only wish is that cf cards get back into production more, because currently there's a shortage at best buy. They had to special order me some and they could only find like 3 to stock.

You don’t need Worst Buy to pick up a CF card.

 

[Amethyst1]

I can't think of many good reasons future portable drives shouldn't be in CF form other than the IDE bus!

The “slow” IDE bus aside, what would we gain from portable CF drives?

Plus it'd make small CF card prices go way down!

That would be awesome.

You don’t need Worst Buy to pick up a CF card.

A voice in my head said: "An error occurred while parsing this sentence: Can't parse more than four hyperlinks. Upgrade brain firmware to v13.37 or later to add support for more hyperlinks." How do I do this?

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[weckart]

I see.

My only wish is that cf cards get back into production more, because currently there's a shortage at best buy. They had to special order me some and they could only find like 3 to stock.

I bought an dual microSD to CF adapter to use with my Sony a while back. Since all the development is on the SD side of things, I reckoned it would be a cheaper and more convenient route to feeding my CF-only Sony. These are cheap and plentiful.

 

[AphoticD]

For fun, I put a 16GB micro SD card as a boot drive into one of my Sawtooth G4s.

I used an adapter like @weckart shared above (but single SD card variety), combined with a CF to 3.5” ATA/IDE 40 pin adapter, which uses floppy power adapted from a spare molex plug.

This is the style. It was a few bucks to order from a Chinese seller on eBay;



It works fine for Mac OS 9 and Tiger dual boot, but I can’t vouch for the longevity of the SD boot drive in comparison to an SSD. So far so good though.

I bought a number of different adapters for CF to 2.5” and also a couple of 1.8” adapters (for my iPod 3rd gen), but these were all intermittently buggy. Whereas the 3.5” setup works perfectly. I assume it must be a low voltage issue which my CF cards and adapted SDs just don’t like.

 

[Old Man McGuggins]

You don’t need Worst Buy to pick up a CF card.

Too late. Already did. Lol. It's in my ipod.