From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep) From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <1ca81ad28cc4dac2df64c57a8ee4b980@collyer.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 07:08:24 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7555e5e2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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. That's on my list of things to source. The other, which I mentioned, is an IDE connector attached to a printed circuit board with two chips on it, I presume one is Flash RAM, the other ATA interfacing. But right now I need to use what I already have, which I mentioned in a previous message. But I am grateful for all suggestions, I may just not be able to pursue each and every one of them :-) ++L