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[ceratophyllum]

I had heard good things about 64GB msata MSA230S in the big cheap green "chenyang" msata-ide adapters from Amazon. So I thought I ordered one, but I goofed and got 220S instead.  I have no idea what the difference is, but I am pleased to report that it seems to work perfectly in my iBook G4 14" late 2004 1.33GHz. I'm running OS 9 on all my G3 and G4 laptops because OS X (and surprisingly OpenBSD) just run horribly on these machines. Even with the RAM maxed out, they are slow and super-thrashy. Unix just has too many little files...

I am tempted to test this adapter+drive combination in my most cursed Lombard, which locked up all the time with a short board "MOPFOL" adapter (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSWK82HK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title) and a 32GB Samsung msata drive I had laying around.  Not sure it is the Powerbook's fault as I also tested these devices in several hard disk music players and "vintage" Pentium laptops and nothing worked reliably.  Finally, I tried it in a Compaq Armada 1700 (running Windows ME just because I never had that OS back in the day) and it actually worked reliably.

[ceratophyllum]

I had heard good things about 64GB msata MSA230S in the big cheap green "chenyang" msata-ide adapters from Amazon. So I thought I ordered one, but I goofed and got 220S instead.  I have no idea what the difference is, but I am pleased to report that it seems to work perfectly in my iBook G4 14" late 2004 1.33GHz. I'm running OS 9 on all my G3 and G4 laptops because OS X (and surprisingly OpenBSD) just run horribly on these machines. Even with the RAM maxed out, they are slow and super-thrashy. Unix just has too many little files...

I am tempted to test this adapter+drive combination in my most cursed Lombard, which locked up all the time with a short board "MOPFOL" adapter (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSWK82HK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title) and a 32GB Samsung msata drive I had laying around.  Not sure it is the Powerbook's fault as I also tested these devices in several hard disk music players and "vintage" Pentium laptops and nothing worked reliably.  Finally, I tried it in a Compaq Armada 1700 (running Windows ME just because I never had that OS back in the day) and it actually worked reliably.

Just for fun, I decided to try  the green Chenyang + Transcend 230S msata with Lombard 333MHz.   It did not work reliably in the Cursed Lombard.  I was able to install (using the Mactron "Well-Tempered" 2013 OS 9.2.2 disk image to boot and restore) fine, but after less than half an hour it locked up.  I tried a few more times, but it locked up in less than half an hour every time. 

Went back to old spinner and the system is stable again.  It is very curious that the disk-intensive system restore usually succeeds w/o locking up (with all these cheap adapters) and then after a reboot, there's a crash usually but not always when writing to the flash/SSD.  Oh, well...it is generally a nicer experience using the ~1GHz iBooks anyway. (Oh well, taking them apart is not nice, LOL.)