PCMICA with the New Little G4 PowerBook

[Jake Luck]

Ivan:

On the 2400, one can currently boot from an external PCMCIA drive, OS9 is
known to work. I haven't experimented with booting OS10 externally, though
the drive is mountable since 10.2. I believe one can boot from an external
USB and FW drives with the New World firmware. Would someone please verify
this?

http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/pocket_udd.asp

Here is a link of such a product. It supports both USB and Firewire. So
this might just give enough incentive for one to migrate from a 2400 to
the new 12" Powerbook.

jake

> I have no idea about these things -- I didn't know they existed. But I'd
> be quite confident that you can't boot off of a PCMCIA drive, because you
> can't boot off of any USB drive. You can of course boot from FireWire.
>
> As for Ethernet, etc, while I won't get into what the point might be, how
> would they work? Ethernet cards don't work as is without a driver, so
> you'd need some driver that knows about the USB thingy AND about your
> Ethernet card. I mean, maybe I just don't understand and the adapter
> magically gives you PCMCIA slots which the computer natively sees as
> such, but I cannot imagine, technically, how that would work. Does
> someone have a URL for such a product that I could check out?
>
> Ivan.