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In the CF empeg thread the page that snoopstah links to show the CF/IDE adapter been used in a laptop. Is this realistic? And if so what are the cons of such a setup?

That is actually what many of these CF-IDE adapters were first designed for. Quite feasible, if you don't mind tiny drive sizes (for now). Just be a bit wary when using Linux in this application, as it does like to timestamp the superblocks a bit too often, which will wear out the CF faster than one might like it to do. Running with "laptop-mode" on should alleviate that.

Oh, and on the "con" side, CF cards are *much* slower than real drives, *especially* when writing. Even for the fastest of them today. EDIT: well, okay, the newest fastest cards are about equal to average notebook drives, but only when using special timings that not many (not any?) notebooks actually support in hardware.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (05/04/2007 12:59)