There are two potential issues with CF cards in IDE adapters. Some adapters don't implement UDMA correctly which can cause problems. With windows you get intermittent read and write errors. With Linux the kernel usually crashes when it tries to mount the drive. Also some cards report themselves as removable storage. Windows won't install on a removable drive. You can however get around this by installing on a hard drive then making an image of the hard drive and copying it on to the CF card. You then need to use a boot manager such as Grub or the one that comes with xfdisk.
Les Dave wrote: > I have some Windows based systems running off CF cards. I found that > some low dollar IDE to CF adapters simply would not work to boot windows > reliably. I ended up buying some more expensive Addonics SATA to CF > adapters and that solved the boot issues that I ran into. I used > Transcend 133X CF cards and the systems I did have been running for > about 1 1/2 years now - with zero failures. I used part of the > Windows XP embedded OS software so I could turn off the random disk > writes entirely. Some CF cards simply cannot boot an OS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
