Subject: Re: Microdrives in the CF slot?
To: None <matt@bodgit-n-scarper.com>
From: M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/20/2005 22:52:01
In message: <1108910868.3737.5.camel@lister.bodgit-n-scarper.com>
            Matt Dainty <matt@bodgit-n-scarper.com> writes:
: On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:34, Andy Ruhl wrote:
: > Note that it
: > might still work if you use a CF card reader in the PCMCIA slot...
: 
: ICBW but I thought that CF and PCMCIA are basically the same technology
: such that a CF->PCMCIA adapter is merely altering the connector.
: Certainly the two adapters I have were so cheap I can't believe they
: have any IDE/ATA logic in them.

That's correct.  CF has fewer I/O pins that PC Card, and the CF to PC
Card adapters just wire things up.

Warner