Re: SCSI-IDE-CF Experiment

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

"Alex Freed" <alex_news@mirrow.com> wrote 
in message news:gb8vta$2hn$1@aioe.org...
> pitz wrote:
> > Interestingly, the SCSI-IDE-CF setup seems 
> > to boot up slower than my external SCSI drive
>
> I don't find this unusual in any way. SCSI 
> protocol is entirely different from what CF 
> uses, in IDE mode or otherwise. The controller 
> has to read a SCSI command, issue an equivalent 
> to CF, read back the data to a buffer (most likely) 
> and then send the data back to the SCSI controller. 
> At boot time a real disk will take some time to spin 
> up, but in most cases the SCSI controller will wait 
> this time regardless of the presence of a physical 
> disk on the bus.
>
> -Alex. 

What I find 'MOST' interesting, and thought impossible, 
is that this setup has read a CF card removed from a CFFA, 
and directly installed into it without any repartitioning 
or formatting whatsoever. And it still works in the CFFA? 
That is most astonishing! 

Or, have I misinterpreted what was said? 

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
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