Hi,
I have a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet II (PDQ). I've been playing with alternatives to using an internal IDE hard disk. I picked up an inexpensive JM20330 based adapter and tried it with a Lite-On LMT-64M6M mSATA SSD. However, if the CDROM drive module was installed it was REALLY SLOW. Far slower than the internal hard disk. An OS X install took an eternity. If I started up WITHOUT the CDROM drive module installed, it worked just fine and was very fast, at the expense of not having access to the CDROM.
Next, I tried an Ablecon IIDE-MSAT adapter, which uses the Marvell 88SA8052 chipset and the same Lite-On SSD. With this adapter installed, the CDROM module was completely unrecognized by the PowerBook. It is like that ATA interface didn't even exist in System Profiler. The PowerBook ran just fine with or without the CDROM module installed, though the CDROM was completely unrecognized. I briefly tried an Intel mSATA SSD with the Ablecon adapter, but it showed the same symptoms of a completely unrecognized CDROM module.
So... I'm trying to find a combo that works and allows me to use the CDROM module (I do need to read and boot from physical CDs now and then). I have tried CompactFlash cards in PCMCIA readers as well as in an IDE adapter. Even with a fast 800x UDMA card, these options were noticeably slower than the hard drive.
Anyone have any specific combos of adapters and SSDs they've used with this particular PowerBook with good success (and retained full functionality of the internal CDROM module)?
Thanks!
I have a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet II (PDQ). I've been playing with alternatives to using an internal IDE hard disk. I picked up an inexpensive JM20330 based adapter and tried it with a Lite-On LMT-64M6M mSATA SSD. However, if the CDROM drive module was installed it was REALLY SLOW. Far slower than the internal hard disk. An OS X install took an eternity. If I started up WITHOUT the CDROM drive module installed, it worked just fine and was very fast, at the expense of not having access to the CDROM.
Next, I tried an Ablecon IIDE-MSAT adapter, which uses the Marvell 88SA8052 chipset and the same Lite-On SSD. With this adapter installed, the CDROM module was completely unrecognized by the PowerBook. It is like that ATA interface didn't even exist in System Profiler. The PowerBook ran just fine with or without the CDROM module installed, though the CDROM was completely unrecognized. I briefly tried an Intel mSATA SSD with the Ablecon adapter, but it showed the same symptoms of a completely unrecognized CDROM module.
So... I'm trying to find a combo that works and allows me to use the CDROM module (I do need to read and boot from physical CDs now and then). I have tried CompactFlash cards in PCMCIA readers as well as in an IDE adapter. Even with a fast 800x UDMA card, these options were noticeably slower than the hard drive.
Anyone have any specific combos of adapters and SSDs they've used with this particular PowerBook with good success (and retained full functionality of the internal CDROM module)?
Thanks!