"Anthony J. Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I have purchased an adaptor that does this quite nicely. Using an 8MB > CF card, and the adaptor, I was able to get my old 386 up and running > with DOS 6.22 in about 30 minutes. Most of the time was simply running > the DOS 6.22 install program, copying the files from the installation > floppies to the CF device. It boots amazingly quickly to a DOS prompt, > but it otherwise indistiguishable from an IDE drive. fdisk, format, > copy, etc., all work just like you'd expect. Hey, thanks for the review! I'd been worried after reading an article that implied they were not (somehow) compatible with Linux fdisk. Did you try that by any chance? > CF does have a limited life cycle of # or erases for each sector of the > physical media, but I believe this is generally over 10,000, and so > should not be a factor, except in the most extreme use. However, it's > no more work to pull and replace the CF device than it is a hard drive, > so that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Good point. I may consider buying two for my firewall. One with a "big" CF mounted for normal use, and another with a "small" CF for swap file and such that sees a lot of usage, or I'll want to put up a RAM disk for temp files and such. The box in question (P120) will host 96MB RAM, so I should be OK. > The company I purchased the adaptor from is PC Engines. A direct link > to their WWW site is: > http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm > > Cost is $20 + shipping for the adaptor. Compact Flash cards are > purchased separately, but are easy to find - even the local K-Mart has > them, in the camera department. > > Hope this helps, It helps a lot! Thanks! - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
