On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:02:23PM -0500, Ryan Brooks wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Matt Kelch wrote: > > > > > >> Doesn't CF use a modified IDE interface? That might be a large > >> part of > >> why its still around. > >> > > > > I'm not sure about CF using or being a modified IDE. > It is. In fact, there are even passive adapters for CF->IDE (being the > 40-pin sort found in desktop computers).
Yep. I've even heard of people booting systems directly off CF cards, using just an adapter cable. I was always rather tickled by the idea of a CF card being solid state memory pretending to be a hard drive; that meant a microdrive was really a hard drive which was pretending to be memory pretending to be a hard drive. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
