[Ti] SRAM cards in a PowerBook

[Chris Olson]

On Jul 17, 2004, at 1:31 AM, zefred wrote:

> Have you tried the idisk drivers ?

I'm not sure where those are.  PCMCIA cards should use Card and Socket 
Services.

> And if you can't read the card from osx, have you tried with classic 
> on ?

Yes.  If I put the card in the slot with Classic running, then check 
the OS 9 Desktop folder, an icon is never mounted there.  That's 
because Card Services is direct hardware access.  It's always been the 
OS vendor's responsibility to provide drivers for Card Services.  
Evidently OS X support for SRAM memory cards was discontinued.

> And with virtual PC running ?

To my knowledge, VPC does not access the PCMCIA card drive.  And 
Windows 2000/XP no longer support SRAM cards either.  There's drivers 
available for Windows 2000 from various places on the 'net, and some 
workarounds for XP, but Windows 98 was the last Windows OS to fully 
support them.  I imagine Apple figured SRAM cards are old technology, 
so they dropped it too in favor of the newer ATA flash cards.  I was 
just hoping to find an OS X driver like what's available for Windows 
2000.
--
Chris