My 386 laptop HD is dead. The solution: an IDE to CF adapter

[David Hunt]

> Alexandre Souza wrote:
> >>> CF has unlimited (or almost nearly-ish) reads. Limited *writes*. 
> >>> Most of
> >> ...with the exception of IBM Microdrives, which are indeed 
> tiny hard 
> >> drives.  I have a 340MB one from 4 years ago still going strong.
> > 
> >    A microdrive shouldn't be called a compactFLASH card, 
> since it has 
> > no flash memory :o)
> 
> Not my problem :-)  It's a CFII card and behaves like it 
> (although reads are slower than true flash)

I've got a 1GB IBM Microdrive in a digital camera that has been around the
world, taken over 75,000 pictures and that's over five years old, still no
bad sectors. A bit of slowcoach compared to SanDisk UltraIII CF cards, but
the old snapper sits in the glovebox of the car (temps between -10C and
45C), sweet as a nut still.

Dave ;)