On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote: > The CF readers can go up to 33 Mbps guaranteed and the HDDs well depends on > the machine :-) Some up to 133Mbps (like the 80gig Maxtor that I have on > the Aurora :-) Guess how long it took to format all the partitions :-)
It's a bit better than that, Phoebus. A CF card by definition supports three different interfacing modes: True IDE mode (uses IORW# and IORD# to access I/O locations) PC Card mode (uses IORW# and IORD# to access I/O locations) PC Card Memory mode (uses WE# and OE# to access memory locations) The CF is basically a solid state ATA device where one writes to task file registers (see www.t13.org) See, Phoebus, I've been studying ;P Dave
