Settings won't stay following External drive snafu?

Hello.
I was excited to hear about the SATA PCMCIA cards available for PB's
Got one installed w/250gb. When I hooked my iPod up [fw800 port] and transferred music from the external...PB locked up hard a few times
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter has the iTunes/Safari/QT/iChat logs.
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x3b9c0031
Now those apps are unable to 'hold' their settings. I formatted the ext. disk again, diskutil on the internal 80gb + ran several cleaners.
Thanks in advance.
tony
PowerBook G4 15 [1.67/333] Mac OS X (10.4.5) SATA Cardbus

Tony,
It doesn't look like anyone answered your question. To be honest, I can't either. There doesn't seem to be a lot of info regarding the use of external SATA drives with the PowerBook. I've had a little trouble try to get info as well. What cardbus card are you using in your PB? Did you try to reload the driver for the card? You might want to check out the manufactures website, there maybe another or updated driver available for download. I have tried Granite Digitals cardbus card and couldn't get the PowerBook to even recognize the card was inserted. I sent it back, but have not bought another card as of yet. Please let me know if you have had any success and again which card you bought.
Thanks,
Eric
G4 Mirrored Door, PowerBook G4, G4 Digital Audio Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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