compact flash to ide adapter

[Soybomb]

Anyone bought a compact flash to ide adapter like for use in a machine as a drive? If so where'd you get it? Newegg doesn't seem to have any and past that I don't know where to look thats trustworthy 😀

 

[beer]

Couldn't you buy a 6-in-1 reader or something and use USB? It'd probably be cheaper too. I'd imagine the frequencies used on IDE versus USB would require some significant hardware. You can get internal ones and external ones, I think. Wouldn't an internal one be what you're lookign for?

 

[PowerMacG5]

I would never want to use a CF card as a HDD. The limited read-write's will come up on you very fast if you host the page-file on the CF card, or if the machine is in high use.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: KraziKid
I would never want to use a CF card as a HDD. The limited read-write's will come up on you very fast if you host the page-file on the CF card, or if the machine is in high use.

Why the fsck would you put a page file on a removable medai drive? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard IN MY LIFE!

And I doubt it's for permenent use, probably just for music or something, and that only gets accessed a few times a day.

 

[aircooled]

This sounds like what you are looking for.
Personally I never knew they made them with IDE connections. I just have a 6 in 1 USB device.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Elemental007

Originally posted by: KraziKid
I would never want to use a CF card as a HDD. The limited read-write's will come up on you very fast if you host the page-file on the CF card, or if the machine is in high use.

Why the fsck would you put a page file on a removable medai drive? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard IN MY LIFE!

And I doubt it's for permenent use, probably just for music or something, and that only gets accessed a few times a day.

I must have misunderstood him. I thought he was trying to use the CF card as the main HDD. This is done in a lot of computers that are needed in very low sound environments.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Elemental007

Originally posted by: KraziKid
I would never want to use a CF card as a HDD. The limited read-write's will come up on you very fast if you host the page-file on the CF card, or if the machine is in high use.

Why the fsck would you put a page file on a removable medai drive? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard IN MY LIFE!

And I doubt it's for permenent use, probably just for music or something, and that only gets accessed a few times a day.

I must have misunderstood him. I thought he was trying to use the CF card as the main HDD. This is done in a lot of computers that are needed in very low sound environments.

If that's what he meant, I'd be shocked. But you may be right, I didn't even consider that angle. What you're saying sounds like a good idea for an embedded-system, but I doubt it is used frequently in general-purpose computers.

 

[Soybomb]

Yup the ones at ituner are like what I'm looking for.

heh no paging off it or anything, its going to be as part of a freebsd router/firewall/wirelessap/whatever else box 🙂 I'll write it on my desktop then just boot off it and it shouldn't be written to again except when changing rules and the like.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
Yup the ones at ituner are like what I'm looking for.

hehe not not main drive or paging or anything, its going to be as part of a freebsd router/firewall/wirelessap/whatever else box 🙂

Ahh, okay. My mistake.