Re: Focus HD -> CF Questions

["John" <zzzjoki@yahoo.com>]

On Mar 6, 11:37 am, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 6, 7:55 am, "John" <zzzj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Problem - the CF disk will not warm boot with a Control-OA-Reset I also
> > have this problem with another Focus card & HD which I formatted.
>
> I had this problem with my Focus (before it killed itself)...
>
> Pressing control-reset sends a reset to the card...  during reset, the
> hard drive power is removed.  When you release the keys, the HD goes
> through its startup procedure (spin up, move the head)...  This
> startup
> procedure takes too long on ?some? HD's, and the card is already
> trying
> to boot the drive even though the drive isn't ready to go yet.  When
> the
> HD is done with its startup procedure, the computer is locked up ?
> looking
> at the focus card?...  Solution:  control reset to get to a prompt.
> if you get
> to ] prompt, type PR# (whatever slot the focus is in)... if you get to
> the * prompt,
> type CX00G, where X = slot you have your focus in.
>
> > Speed - the CF card seems about as fast as the HD. It's an old 8 meg
> > card from a Camera. I wonder if a faster CF card would speed things up
> > more, or is the 1MHz //e the bottleneck?
>
> ??  less than 10 seconds boot is too slow for you ??  I imagine a HD
> would be
> faster than a CF card...
>
> I think all you can do is get better media device with a faster seek
> time...
>
> Rich


Thanks for the CX00g hint. Glad I'm not alone on the Focus issue.

The current CF speed is great, but I've heard of dramatic improvements
with faster flash cards on the HP 50g, for example.

Almost too quiet - not even a floppy sound now and then. There's no
visible drive indication either, unless I can bring out the LED
signal. Maybe a wire, or a light pipe. I need a clear case.

BTW, I got the IDE-CF adapter from a vendor on ebay, mobilesupply.
Asian offshore source. Very affordable. So far so good (just one
night).