I did boot my PC with a CF card. The thing is NOT to let it swap on the CF otherwise, it will quickly go away. Otherwise it is VERY fast. I booted a small Linuw distro on a 32MB CF. The same OS on an IDE drive was quite a bit smaller.
2006/9/12, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
