Some things to be aware of.

None of the cheap IDE/CF adapters support hot swapping.  It might work if
your motherboard IDE controller did, but none I have do.

They are just a pin conversion - 40 pins of IDE plus four pins of power  is
44 pins on the CF card.

The dual card holders are just that - two slots that can take two cards and
show up as a master and a slave drive to the OS.

Cheap is porbably fine - as long as you're careful.  I never change the card
in mine, but if you did want to then spend some more for a robust oen, or
just be careful.



-----Original Message-----
From: David [mailto:dlawley at gmail dot com] 
Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:13 a.m.
To: m0n0wall mailing list
Subject: [m0n0wall] What's the best to look for in CF to ide? Or ones to
avoid?


Looking thru ebay at various cf to ide devices which seem to be avail at
some decent prices. Have to check shipping of course. But as I understand it
ide to cf is fairly straight forward pin to pin conx without any chip needed
for interfacing.

So with it being a somewhat simple interface, are you getting what you pay
for?  I know I did see a few online for dual CF but not needed for what we
need..

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