[WinMac] Re: PCCard hard disks
Walter W. Knapp(wwknapp[at]mindspring.com)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:00:25 -0500
> On 12/15/98 at 8:34 AM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > I haven't tried the Amacon Flip disk, but I just got a
> > MiniStor PCCard drive and it works on both my PB and my PC laptop!
> > What's even cooler on the Mac side is that it's BOOTABLE, so it's
> > great for having in case of a major crash.
>
> Is this simply a type III card with hard disk inside?
I have used a Calluna 170mb type III card for boot purposes on my 3400,
just to see if it would work. I loaded 8.5 on using the 8.5 CD installer
in the CD drive. I noticed two things: It's quite slow compared to
booting from the regular HD. The card itself gets quite warm, probably
because it's on and running continuously with no energy saving power downs.
On the plus side, yep, it works. Note that you do have to erase the card
and format it mac, these cards all come formatted dos. Otherwise it
cannot be made bootable.
I usually use my VST 230meg optical drive as the emergency boot disk on
my 3400. Not that I have used it much. To set that up, I simply do a
direct copy of the system on the HD to a 230meg optical, along with my
utilities folder to fix things.
Walt
wwknapp@mindspring.com
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