I was looking through Slashdot the other day (as you do) and found this link to some guys who had made a homebrew half width 1U web server.

The intriguing thing was that instead of a hard drive, they used a CompactFlash card which can behave as an ATA drive if wired up just so.

It got me thinking...

Take a Mk1 with two IDE channels going spare (and no room for another HD) or a single drive Mk2. Hack in one of these modified CompactFlash cards (say 48MB) Now it isn't going to be any great shakes for storing music, but it would make a nifty shock-resistant permanent RW partition for some cool projects...

Is this even remotely feasible, or am I suffering from sleep-deprivation induced fantasies???

Just a thought...

Geoff
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Got one of the first Mark 2 empegs...
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Geoff
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Mk1 Blue - was 4GB, now 16GB
Mk2 Red - was 12GB, now 60GB