On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:50, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine Steve? How so? How did you physically connect the CF card to your IDE bus? I know a number of adapters exist to enable that feature, and I know that the 2.4 series contains the MTD (Memory Technology Drivers) functions directly, but after that, I'm lost.
CF is electrically IDE compatible, but not physically. It requires an adaptor, but the adaptor is completely passive except for the power connector. I bought mine from from this site a while ago: http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm. Otherwise, you use CF just like a regular HDD, no special drivers required.
CF is less than 1/2 the price of DOC, so I have never really understood why DOC became popular.
Most wear-leveling algorithm in CF or DOM are rather stupid (if they do have) which result in unreliable parts. The algorithm in DOC's NFTL is a little bit better.
Ollie