Hi,
I have two CF adapters. A front side floppy size Startech one in an Athlon XP
system that had an AsRock VIA motherboard until
a few days ago when I upgraded it to an EPoX nForce 2 motherboard. Then I have
another chinese one that is mounted
on the back in an extension bracket on an IBM
Remember FAT16 partitions are limited to 2GiB in MS/PC-DOS.
So, drives are limited to 8GiB.
Check out industrial Flash modules or DiskOnModule.
Read a little about them here: http://www.glitchwrks.com/2010/12/16/xtide
Note: Expensive compared to more modern SATA devices.
The other day I decided to do some experimenting with the parallel port on
my FreeDos machine, so I built an adapter with 8 LEDs connected to the
output bits. It didn’t take too long to figure out how to turn the LEDs
on/off using QBASIC.
But I wanted to get a little closer to machine level
I have bought about 25 of these and have only had an issue with one not
working. Not a compatibility issue but a bad solder point on the connector.
Hi! This indeed is a fun topic. CF "disks" are supposed to
understand IDE and you can have purely mechanical adapters
to use them with IDE controllers in your PC. But be aware
that CF were originally popular in good digital photographic,
so they are tuned towards writing a few, large files
IDE <-> Compact Flash adapters seem to be popular for extending the life
of old computing hardware, and I'm looking at replacing the magnetic
disks on my old machines with CF.
However, there seem to be issues with ensuring that the motherboard <->
adapter <-> CF card chain is all compatible.
>> googling "Andreas Bauer", first hit:
>> https://www.bauer-kirch.de/kontakt/details/andreas-bauer/
>>
>> which is about as plausible author as it goes.
>
> At least, it's a trace. We'll see. :-)
>
>> has anybody tried to contact him?
>
> I'll do so now.
Got a reply today. Wrong Andreas.
