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Compact Flash cards are indeed pretty useful in old PCs. One just needs to be careful to buy the "industrial" variants that present themselves as a fixed disk t
by accrual 5y ago
Compact Flash cards are indeed pretty useful in old PCs. One just needs to be careful to buy the "industrial" variants that present themselves as a fixed disk to the system. Some operating systems won't install to common consumer CF cards believing them to be removable disks.
A handy tool for booting from CD-ROM is Plop Boot Manager. It installs itself into the boot sector and can manage booting from the disk, CD drive, and even USB on systems that ordinarily wouldn't support it. Plus it can be configured to have a cool animated starfield background...
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- blueflow 5y agoThis sounds wrong. How can a CF card be recognized as "removable"? Do CF cards exist that support ATAPI?
- accrual 5y agoCF cards can operate in three modes: memory mode, PC Card/IO mode, and IDE/fixed disk mode. Since CF cards were originally a type of portable storage for cameras, etc., it makes sense for them to be treated as removable devices. One would plug it into a computer, download the files, then eject the card. The OS would like to know its removable so it can make any writes immediately and not buffer or cache them like it might do for a fixed disk. Some cards, usually marketed as "industrial", support a fixed disk mode. This one for example can be set to fixed disk by grounding pin 9 (output enable): [PDF] https://resources.winsystems.com/datasheets/cflash-g-xxxm-i-ds.pdf https://resources.winsystems.com/datasheets/cflash-g-xxxm-i-...