[Ti] PCMCIA card for Ti - any success stories out there?

[Macintosh info]

I have the FinePix PC card adapter which handles the Fuji/Olympus jointly
developed XD-Picture Card as well as SmartMedia.  I have had the occasional
kernel panic, but only when my system has been in need of maintenance, or
there was some badness (i.e., bug-ridden) software installed.  If the
computer is behaving strangely, I'd say you have chances for a kernel panic
anyway, card or not.  At least repair permissions.

I always make a point to properly eject the card through the OS, rather than
just manually eject it when I'm done with its contents.

Anyway, I have a TiBook 400 running Panter 10.3.2 and this card has behaved
beautifully since even before Jaguar.  I have never tried a SmartMedia card
in it though, only the XD.

Bill


BTW, the XD format very small (the size of a large thumb nail) and is slated
to go to 5 gig in the same form factor. It will be very cool to install an
entire OS on one that could be used in situations requiring battery power,
so that the internal HD could be unmounted and not used, thereby conserving
battery by not having any power-consuming read-write actions.  Very cool...


On 2/18/04 09:26, "Bob Bergey" <rb at dprint.com> wrote:

> At 9:37 AM -0500 on 2-18-04, Malcolm Hamilton wrote:
> 
>> Are some of you successfully using PCMCIA cards for the purpose I've
>> described?  If so, what kind of cards, and what operating system are
>> you running.  Are you following any special instructions for using
>> the card?
>> (My computer is a 400MHz Ti, by the way; 768MB of RAM).
> 
> I also have the TiBook/400, and use PCMCIA adapter cards all the time
> to read compact flash. I currently use Panther (10.3.2), but it
> worked just as well with every OS since 9.2.2. I have two different
> adapters (off brands) and several compact flash chips, all work just
> as well. I never use the menu that pops up, but the card does show in
> Finder windows, also. I have my system configured not to show drives
> or cars on the desktop itself. Not sure if that would make any
> difference or not. For the last year or so I've been using
> GraphicConverter to download and save photos from cards, and have it
> configured to start up automatically as soon as I insert the card. It
> just always works; I use it almost every day.
> 
> Bob