Re: [Thinkpad] CF adapters, again

It depends a lot more on the BIOS. I would be surprised if it would work in
a 701C.

On 1/29/07, Jonathan Berry < jberry@islandnet.com> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
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