David Winter wrote: > Dear All, > Anyone used a CF card as a hard drive? They are kind of slow. Not too bad to read, but still can be a couple megabytes a second, depending a lot on the adaptor. But, the write speed can be REALLY slow, vastly slower than a normal hard drive.
I think you can now get IDE to CF card adaptors, so any old BIOS can handle it. > I thought I read > here that someone has done it > but I searched the wiki and didn't find anything. I have a card and > adapter which I have partitioned > with fdisk and formatted using format c: /s ( DOS ) but my PC > won't boot from it. This is a USB CF card adaptor? Many older BIOSs will not boot from USB. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
