I have two of these type adapters. It has two connectors which show up
as master and slave. It works with 8Gb drives without issue and you
can boot from it. The only issue for a laptop is that it plugs into
the HD power connector. Make sure that the one you get is for laptop
drives with the integrated power and data connector (I think that's a
44 pin connector).
Mark
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On Feb 7, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Brad Franks <[email protected]> wrote:
Ray - I'm pretty sure you know more about this stuff than I do but I
think it's a moot point, isn't it?
The CF standard enforces that all cards have an ATA controller on
board. All this card is doing is acting as a pin-reference and
adapter from CF to IDE, the same 50 pins, just from small to large.
The ability to use two cards on a single adapter would likely mean
that the card is using cable-select to force the cards into a Master/
Slave arrangement.
Ray Ayala wrote:
Maybe I missed it but I didn't see anything that says this model
supports HD (>2GB) CF cards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert McElwee
To: MiataPower
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 11:53 AM
Subject: NPC: Poor man's solid state drive
Anyone ever use one of these? I'm wondering how an adapter and a
cheap CF memory card would perform (speed wise) compared to a
laptop hard drive. The drive I'd like to replace is an "old" "slow"
6GB drive so I'm guessing that this would be faster but I don't
have a clue.
http://www.startech.com/item/CF2X2IDE25-2.5-IDE-to-Dual-Compact-Flash-CF-Adapter-Solid-State-Dual-Compact-Flash.aspx
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