[olug] Compact Flash booting

[Eric Penne]

I did an ebay search for "compact flash ide".  They are not pcmcia
converters.  compact flash essentially uses ide commands but has an
extra pin or 2 for input power.  These are not hot swappable.

Eric


--- Dave Burchell <burchell at inebraska.com> wrote:
> Eric Penne says:
> > 
> > I'm going to try something new before the end of this year.  I
> > purchased a compact flash to IDE adapter.  I will install this in
> my
> > router PC.
> 
> > Has anybody used a compact flash card as the main hard drive
> instead of
> > booting from floppy or or other mechanical device?  Is it faster?
> > Cheaper is out of the question.  I think the solid state way would
> be
> > better since it could give you more room for things like seti :)
> > because 8MB in compact flash is cheap and these converters are
> under 15
> > bucks.
> 
> Could you point us to some links on the converters and cheap compact
> flash
> cards?  Do the converters work like a PCMCIA (PC Card) drive?
> 
> > Possibly another good OLUG presentation.  Somebody should start
> writing
> > these down so I can remember them and maybe give a presentation on
> > them.
> 
> > Eric
> 
> 
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