Focus Utilities vs CF to IDE adaptor?

[Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au>]

Hi there,

My 20MB drive on my Focus card died (no surprises there), but I hadn't 
gotten to the point of imaging the drive (nothing valuable on it).

I've seen that some people have had success with CF to IDE adaptors - 
picked up one from eBay, and a 512Mb CF card and a 128MB CF catd from 
local distributors. Neither card is being recognised by the Focus 
Formatter (or whatever it's called). I know the card's OK, coz I had a 
20GB 2.5" HD in it and it formatted fine with the same utility.

So... has anyone had success formatting CF cards with the Focus 
Formatter, or do I need to use CiderPress to physically clone a drive 
onto the CF cards?

If the latter, does anyone have a suitably sized (128 or 512MB) set of 
blank partitions I could perhaps lay my hands on so I can do the 
transfer?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Sean

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