On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 14:01, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:51, Hyrum Wright wrote: > > I'm trying to build a compact flash to IDE adapter for an embedded > > application. Does anybody know how I can get the compact flash card to > > behave and look like an IDE drive to the system? > > Compact Flash *is* IDE already. You just need to adapt the pinout. You > can buy such an adapter, or just get lots of little wires to connect the > thing to an IDE cable. My bet is to go buy a simple adapter (much like > the 2.5" to 3.5" ide adapters).
Hmm, guess I was wrong... but it's not really just IDE from what I can tell. It /is/, however, PCMCIA and PCMCIA is mostly just ATA. I feel a little confused. Anyway you can download the spec from <http://www.compactflash.org/>. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
