[NTLK] Flash card direct backup?

Woo vitcitylb at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 1 15:12:19 EST 2010


try this, it's a serial conn. speed enhancement by Paul Guyot, IIRC.
http://www.unna.org/view.php?/utilites/system_enhancements/Ser57600

-----Original Message-----
>From: Brett Feinblatt <bafein at mac.com>
>Sent: Feb 1, 2010 9:53 AM
>To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
>Subject: [NTLK] Flash card direct backup?
>
>Just wondering, I've never seen any mention of it, but for the  
>external flash memory cards - particularly the larger ones - is there  
>by any chance a bit of software for the Classic MacOS that would  
>allow you to just pop the PC memory card into the the slot on an old  
>Powerbook and do a direct backup/wipe/restore from there?
>
>I've been using the serial connection, but for whatever reason, the  
>system starts to hang after a little while when I try to backup, and  
>so far I haven't been able to do a full one. I could probably do it  
>piecemeal - back up this bit one time, that part later, etc. until I  
>get it all, but I'm not entirely happy with that plan.
>
>The card, incidentally, is fairly large - 24 MB.
>
>Thanks
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>he does.
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