Re: [Thinkpad] CF adapters, again

On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:35, thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
> I thought I might chime in here. Donald, I would bypass the entire
> booting
> from a PCMCIA card thing by just getting one of these:
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/IDE-to-CF-Compact-Flash-Adaptor-for-Laptop-44-
> pins_W0QQitemZ150085532110QQihZ005QQcategoryZ41993QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>
> It is an IDE to CF adapter as you can tell from the title. It actually
> replaces the hard drive in the hard drive slot. I have one in an old
> Dell
> and it works just fine with DSL (Damn Small Linux) on it. The issue
> you may
> have is the limited amount of writes on a CF card but the cards tend
> to fail
> before that point anyhow. So, you may not want to have your swap
> partition
> on the CF card because of the limited writes. That's up to you. Good
> luck.

I've just got an adapter like the one linked above and intend to put a
4 Gb CF card into a 560X in place of the stock 4 Gb drive.
I've been running another 560X for 3 or 4 years with an OEM solid state
hard drive as C: running WIN98 lite.
It's 800 Mb and looks like a normal laptop drive only thinner.
After a few years it's still totally silent and I still get 1.5 hours
on the battery that was used when I got the computer.
I'm hopeful that the CF card will be as reliable.

Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?

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Received on Mon Jan 29 12:03:31 2007