PCMCIA/CF flash cards as boot devices (was Re: Modern replica/implementation of a dumb terminal?)

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Wed Nov 27 17:56:00 2002

Rumor has it that John Allain may have mentioned these words:
> > Well, I can find a *little* cheaper than $25 -- Cloud9 has a CFIDE
> > adapter for $20 -- will plug straight into the IDE port from the looks
> > of it...
> > http://www.cloud9tech.com/Hardware/CFIDE.html
>
>On the site it states:
>"all CompactFlash cards from 8MB up to 512MB"
>I wonder if that's a CoCo limitation?
>Adaptors I've seen like this are completely passive
>with nearly 1:1 connection mappings and no logic at
>all.

This is MHO, but I honestly don't think there's a limitation at all --
anything less than 8MB would be near pointless to monkey with as a "HD" for
the CoCo, and >512MB prolly didn't exist at the time...

-- Unless, of course, there's the possibility that there were some
flashcards that were smaller than 8MB that didn't have the full ATA spec
built-in - these might not work - not due to the adapter, but due to the
drivers for the CoCo IDE interface...

'Course, you could zing him off an email - he'd be the best one to talk to
about that...

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch_at_30below.com
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and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Received on Wed Nov 27 2002 - 17:56:00 GMT

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