TB wrote: ... Is there a
widget that makes them act like a hard drive or something? ...
Yup. The CF spec requires that the card actually be able to speak IDE in addition to normal PCMCIA ATA Flash protocols! This means that there are CF<->IDE adapters that are completely passive (basicaly, a board with an IDE connector, CF connector, power connection, some caps and resistors, and sometimes a NAND gate, I believe to facilitate master/slave or possibly the status LEDs). All in all, they're VERY simple adapters.
Of course, using a CF card in a USB reader makes it look liek SCSI to linux, and usign it in a PCMCIA<->CF adapter (also purely passive as CF is just a stripped down PCMCIA spec) they'll show up as IDE hard drives.
The CF<->IDE converts allow you to use it as a normal hard drive. The BIOS thinks it's a hard drive and everything. You can boot off of them even! I just use lilo.
--MonMotha
