No Bob, you didn't miss any messge of this thread. And I did _not_ find any trick which would make a CF card boot from a PCMCIA slot.
The idea I was droodling about was to put a CF _adapter_ (with the SFF connector) in the place of a died HD of a laptop, and have a bootable CF card there, including the card service/manager of whatever OS that would be; _then_ the usual two CF card slots on such laptops would be available to run more things than what can be put on the one CF card in the adapter, with its comparably restricted capacity. Just think that could be a comparably cheap work-around to keep the laptop going (and useful). BTW, that backpack adapter I bought two years ago isn't going to be completely useless when I finally put that direct-plugged adapter into the Linux box (it served there with the DOS partition to get digi-cam files onto the disk), as it came along with a DOS driver. Thus it may get yet another long life for file transfers from my DOS text-only boxes; like the par-port Zipdrive for instance but faster. I wouldn't be that afraid of the limits of rewriting to those cards. The manufacturing specification, even for the early ones, was already quite high, the present generation's one has gone up by factors. Used HD could be much more of a risk, in comparison. Apparently I had been just lucky hitherto, had precisely one only gone awry only weeks after installing it (and the one in this workhorse here, spinning ca.10 hours daily, has run for at least four years aleady without any sign of wear, yet.) But even if they test "good" in all aspects, you cannot even estimate further lifetime as you don't know how long they had been used before. It's just a risk, not calculable. And the _new_ HDs for laptops are still remaining comparably high priced. // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-08- The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net 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
