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Use a PCMCIA card or Type II CF with your Iopener? It may not be that far fetched.

New MessageUse a PCMCIA card or Type II CF with your Iopener? It may not be that far fetched. (modified 1 times) Kudzu
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I know a few of you took the time to integrate the compact flash socket into your system board, and it strikes me that these two devices might be a welcome addition to those systems.

Whilst surfing my favorite PDA site, I came across the Sycard compact flash to pc card extender, which will work with various network and other PCMCIA devices.

Also of interest was the "CF Pocket" Compact Flash Type I to Type II Adapter which may allow you to use an IBM Microdrive with the Iopener, if you'd prefer not to use a standard laptop drive, or want something small enough to take it with you.

10-18-2001 07:49:54

New MessageRE:Use a PCMCIA card or Type II CF with your Iopener? It may not be that far fetched. (modified 0 times) Linuxguru
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The crash in Compact Flash card prices in recent months (80 MB for $34.95 at Fry's) gives an added impetus to perform the CF connector hack. One could have a solid-state disk system running Peanut Linux or similar.
10-18-2001 19:57:16

New MessageRE:Use a PCMCIA card or Type II CF with your Iopener? It may not be that far fetched. (modified 0 times) froo
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Here's something I happened on the other day, and I don't think I've seen it here on the boards. It's an IDE to CompactFlash adapter, which would apparently allow you to use a CF card as a drive in the IO:

http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm

10-20-2001 16:08:07

New MessageRE:Use a PCMCIA card or Type II CF with your Iopener? It may not be that far fetched. (modified 0 times) Mitchell
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wow, and well priced!
Very tempting.

IDE to CompactFlash adapter CFDISK.2A, 2.5" form factor, 44 pin IDE connector
(in stock)

$20 each

10-20-2001 18:48:15

New MessageRE:Use a PCMCIA card or Type II CF with your Iopener? It may not be that far fetched. (modified 1 times) Kudzu
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Spectrum, a poster on the MSN companion board, found a powered CF to PCMCIA adapter that will work with all cards.

If you've got a CF slot and this card, you can run all the things that make laptops worthwhile.

11-12-2001 15:59:34

New MessageRE:Use a PCMCIA card or Type II CF with your Iopener? It may not be that far fetched. (modified 0 times) Programmer
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I still haven't seen anyone affirm that you can use one of these things with anything but an IDE type device when connected to the IDE->CompactFlash or IO CompactFlash connector.

Can anyone verify that it does work? for instance a cf lan card in a ide->cflash adapter?

11-14-2001 08:17:19

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