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

[Ethan Dicks]

On 1/25/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2007 at 23:59, Jim Leonard wrote:
>
> > Yep!  There are only two drawbacks to microdrives:
> >
> > - Slower than real flash
> > - Can't use 6000+ feet above sea level (lack of air pressure can make
> > the drive go wonky or, rarely, break it)
>
> So, I guess that not many were sold in Flagstaff, AZ?  :)

Or at the South Pole ;-)  (9300 elev, 10000-12000 pressure altitude
due to temp/air density effects).

It's a real problem there - I wouldn't want to take a Microdrive to
that altitude.  Personally, my mp3 player was FLASH-based, on purpose,
even though it holds a fraction of the songs of any hard-drive-based
player.  In 2005, when I arrived in October, I heard that virtually
every iPod over the winter had a hard drive failure.  Those are, IIRC,
1.8" drives.  3.5" desktop and server drives last longer, but we
replaced about one per month in our experiment.

Naturally, I left my HP Kittyhawk at Sea Level.

-ethan