[DuoList] 2400 CF upgrade!

[Ralph Mawyer]

Nice work Noah, it makes me feel like I'm reading the DuoList of 1999. ;-)



On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Noah Wood wrote:

> I had been putting this project off for forever, but I finally got
> around to doing it yesterday and I'm really happy with the results.  I
> bought a compact flash to 2.5 IDE adapter from amazon
> (http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SY-IDE2CF-NB25-Compact-Adapter-2-5-Inch/dp/B001B19HGA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295191835&sr=8-1
> this one to be exact) and a 2GB Transcend CF card
> (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VY2BC0/ref=ox_ya_os_product this
> one to be exact).  I took out the IDE drive (a 10gig travelstar I
> upgraded once before) and popped it in a PC card IDE adapter to my G3
> powerbook to do a backup of the boot partition.  Then I popped in the
> CF card to a PC card adapter and copied the boot partition back to the
> CF card.  I then popped the CF card in the adapter and into the 2400.
> Also, while I was knee deep into the machine I disconnected the two
> yellow wires to enable cardbus support.  Put the machine back together
> and pushed on.  It successfully booted and was completely silent.  The
> boot time is much faster as well, I can really see a speed increase in
> extracting archives.  Overall, despite losing a lot of extra space,
> I'm really happy with the results of the CF adapter, it really makes
> the machine quiet and more usable without worrying about an aging hard
> drive.  The cardbus mod went well too, and I can now use my usb key
> with my 2400, which is nice.
> 
> P.S. A shoutout to the mac 2400 site for helping me take the thing
> apart and put it back together without losing any screws!

Ralph Mawyer, Jr.
mac2400