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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
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Date: Sat,  8 May 2004 22:50:36 -0700
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It's not too hard to find PCMCIA adapters for compact flash
cards that make them look like IDE disks, but what I found
(see the archives) was a family of adapters that make a compact
flash card emulate an IDE disk, complete with IDE connector,
or a complete IDE bus with one disk on it, and that plugs straight
into a motherboard IDE connector.  So far they have just worked
for booting my terminal and main cpu server.  We've just moved,
so as I set up machines again, more boot disks will get replaced
by compact flash cards, especially in the file servers.