DOC vs. IDE
Steve M. Gehlbach
steve at nexpath.com
Mon Sep 30 01:23:00 CEST 2002
> 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.
-Steve
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