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New Message CF IDE Card reader (modified 0 times) BigDog

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There is a eBay seller who is selling desktop IDE compact flash drives. These drives are an options with the MoveMan MP3 players that this seller sells, I have two of these already and they work great to format and reload your CF card with a different OS using a desktop PC; as it fits in a 3 1/2 drive bay and connects to the computer 40 pin IDE interface. MoveMan wasn't very succesful selling these drives because the CF card is not hot swappable as the standard users prefer to load the CF card and remove it to use in the MP3 player with out shutting down their computer.
The drive does not permit hot swapping the CF card, you must shut down before inserting or removing the CF, the CF is detected in true IDE hard drive mode so there is no need for drivers or higher leval OS support such as the USB drives require. This is true IDE native support drive and it's much easier to format the CF card for other purposes!
The seller apparently has several of these... http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1323384714
(FYI - I have never bought from this seller yet, or know anything about him. But his feedback looks good)

01-17-2002 06:12:36

New Message RE:CF IDE Card reader (modified 0 times) SandyEggo

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Thanks for the info BigDog. I noticed this eBay'er has a web page and is selling the same units for $17.99. (He even uses the same picture!). The one that you mentioned went for over $30!!!
I paid using PayPal, so it was an easy transaction.
See:
http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/rwpage.htm
SandyEggo

01-21-2002 23:56:40

New Message RE:CF IDE Card reader (modified 0 times) BigDog

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Geez...
It even appears that $17.99 even includes shipping!!
I bought one from one of his ebay auctions for $19.99 + 6.20 shipping, eBay auctions are crazy! I once sold a APC SmartUPS without batterys for $100, I even got emails from others asking how I did it, sometimes folks get caught up in the "winning" concept a little too much!!
I wonder if the seller would discount the drives even more if we got a group buy togather??

01-22-2002 09:25:49

New Message RE:CF IDE Card reader (modified 0 times) djerikd

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The paypal shopping cart will add the $6.20 shipping when you go to checkout. Just ordered one myself.
- Erik

02-11-2002 08:56:57

New Message RE:CF IDE Card reader (modified 0 times) djerikd

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I see that the seller now has one that's hot swappable.
http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/display_product.cfm?product_id=25

02-19-2002 13:16:20

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