I don't, which is why I'm asking. I do know that the older PCMCIA/CF adapters
do not support more than 2GB CF cards. But AFAIK it's simply a matter of not
all pins being passed through, so I figured that the same may apply to IDE
adapters.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Franks
To: Ray Ayala
Cc: Robert McElwee ; MiataPower
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Poor man's solid state drive
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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