jetsetter
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This family of unique CF-IDE Hard Drive Adapters is designed to enable one or two Compact Flash (CFI/II) media to be used as direct replacement for the 2.5" IDE hard drive. As a result, any equipment, such as Notebook computer, that uses a 2.5" IDE hard drive can be easily converted to use the low power and shock resistant CF media. Once installed, the CF appears as an ordinary hard drive to any OS and can be configured as a boot device. The Dual CF-IDE Hard Drive Adapter contains a second CF slot for the slave position of the IDE channel, allowing increased storage capacity with the same low power consumption and solid state benefits of the CF card.
Key Features
Enable Compact Flash (CF) to be used like ordinary 2.5" IDE hard drive
Compatible with CFI/II?
Choice of single slot or dual slots CF adapter
Drive access LED
IDE interface
Mini 44-pin IDE male connector (2.5" IDE hard drive connector)
Bootable
Compatible* with DOS, Windows 3.1, NT4, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac or Linux
Supports DMA and Ultra DMA modes (only on flash media card with such features)
*Media must be in the device during boot up. Media is not hot swappable
For fast boot performance, we recommend installing in the master slot with CF that supports fixed disk mode. Also due to limitation of the BIOS on most of the Notebook computers, only CF with removable disk mode can be detected in the slave slot.
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp
(photos at the site)
With higher capacity cards coming out this could be a cheaper way to get into the solid state hard drive world.