Re: cf card to ide adaptor will it work via vulcan controller?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug@no.spam.iinet> wrote in message
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: Patrick Schaefer wrote:
:
: > CF cards in True IDE mode can be used with anything that is able to
: > acces an IDE drive in LBA mode. Usually these cards do not work with
: > controllers that stick to the old Cylinder-Head-Sector scheme, though it
: > works sometimes.
:
: I'm yet to see evidence of this. The CompactFlash specification has full
: support for CHS mode...

The problem with the Vulcan doesn't lie with the CF card, but with the
firmware itself. It is designed to work with 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 MB
drives, and most CF cards either don't meet, or exceed these limits.

Bill Garber