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> * der Mouse (mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA) wrote:
> > > Find an ide to compact flash adapter.  They're around and cost
> > > $10-30.  Compact flash's regular interface is very close,
> > > (identical?), to IDE to begin with so the "adapter" is really just
> > > traces on a board and a couple of connectors.
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> Usually a CF has 3 modes, one mode is "true-IDE" (pin 9 is set to gnd)=20
> where the CF behaves like a IDE drive
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> > > Once you plug it in, it looks like a disk drive to the bios and to
> > > netbsd.  From there, you just load it as you would a regular disk
> > > drive.
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> Yipp.
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> > That's been my experience.  I've never tried booting off one,=20
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> Me to, but it should work great.
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> > but I did
> > once end up with a cheap digital camera that wrote its pictures to CF.
> > I found a website (something that looked authoritative, a name along
> > the lines of compactflash.org) that said the interface was electrically
> > identical to IDE-on-PCMCIA.  I got an adapter (which was cheap, not
> > surprising if it's just two connectors, some wiring, and a housing) and
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> Once I built a CF-IDE adaptor for myself to use a CF as IDE drive,=20
> it consisted of 2 resistors, 2 capacitors, a LED, 2 connectors and a=20
> circuit board.=20
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> It's useful to download photos from CF but not hot pluggable.

Do you have a reference or a picture of the circuit diagram for such adapter?

cheerio Berndt