I'm gonna keep you in touch!Hi @bobesch, thank you for asking about my Wallstreet. I haven't put a lot of focus on my Wallstreet PDQ project yet. I've already backed up the drive and save it on my Mini server, so that copy is in a safe place. I'm actually putting more focus now in configuring my PowerBook G4 DSLD as my main PPC machine since my PowerMac G5 tower went up in smoke a few days ago sadly and with money being a bit tight right now since I'm not back working full time due to COVID, I'm spending money only on the essentials. But I'm optimistic that once the economy turns around to pre-2019 level that I can start attending those vintage computer festivals where I know they are selling a lot of those IDE to CF adapters and my financial position should allow me to spend some fun money again.Good to know that I should get a male version as well. Thanks again for your project and reassurance from your Wallstreet that I can do the same with mine!
So far CF/PCMCIA has proved to be a bit tricky and laggy. Trying to extract/mount big installers while running the Wallstreet through CF/PCMCIA doesn't work and I had to prepare extraction on a PB-G4/Tiger.
Nevertheless basic stuff does work fine with CF/PCMCIA and after @Amethyst1 mentioned, that the CF-PCMCIA-combination is kind of bottlenecked, I do hope, using the IDE-to-CF-adapter will speed up things a lot.
Some tricky stuff about formatting the CF-Card:
1) os9 on the Wallstreet both booted from the spinning drive and the CF-Card/PCMCIA-combo refuses to format the CF-Card (error-message: action not able for network-attached storage.
But booting the Wallstreet throught optical-drive with an os9/os8.5 installation-CD re-enables the Wallstreet to format the CF-Card within the PCMCIA-Card.
2) The Wallstreet has problems to boot from a CF-Card that has been formatted Tiger's disk-utility (HFS+ "journaled"), and Tiger has problems the deal with a CF-Card, that was formatted on the Wallstreet.
=> So it seems one cannot use a G4 machine, that isn't able to boot into os9 natively, but only allows OSX+Classic, for disk-operations, even if CF/PCMCIA is otherwise recognized properly on e.g. my PB-G4-DLSD. That makes an os8.x or os9 installation-disk and a functioning optical-drive mandatory on the Wallstreet.
Or you'll need to have access to another os8/9 machine with either a PCMCIA-slot or an USB- or FireWire-connected CF-CardReader.
Total costs are reasonable (amounts include shipping):
44Pin-male CF-to-IDE-adapter: 3€ (I hope, it'll work - gonna let you know! My unsuccessful first attempt with the 40-Pin-female IDE-adapter came only at 1,50€ )
CF-to-PCMCIA-adapter: 3,50€
FireWire-CF-Card-Reader: 12€
16GB CF-Card: 10€
SD-To-CF-Card-Adapter: 8€
So next step is waiting for the CF-to-IDE-adapter, which is going to last a few weeks.
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