Re: [Thinkpad] CF adapters, again

From: Jonathan Berry <jberry_at_islandnet.com>
Date: Mon Jan 29 2007 - 12:20:05 EST

>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.

YMMV on this also. My old 701C machines cannot boot from
PCMCIA, so a few years ago I bought a similar device from
Australia. It did not work. The manufacturers thought that
the non-bootability might have been a property of the
particular CF cards that I had available and tried out.

-- 
happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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