Charles wrote:
In article <WZGdnaGKjZvG3u3enZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@comcast.com>, willy46pa@comcast.net says..."brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net> wrote in message 11n0d8lkbatk197@corp.supernews.com">news:11n0d8lkbatk197@corp.supernews.com...bill g. replies to my quesion below quote The Vulcan controller is IDE. Any CF to 40 pin IDE adapter will work, but you must find 5v and ground on the controller, (not hard), and hook it to a standard floppy power plug. end guote duh? technology marches on...they have stuff called a " CF to IDE adaptor" duh.i had no idea where can i get such a beast (compuguys?/ etc?)http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/homeskit.htmlI know you guys also are familiar with windows pc's. Is there a way to use one of these to make the boot disk for a pc and store all the operating system of windows xp on the CF card (how big do they get?) and load xp lickety split (like 2 secs), like back in the day with the AE Ramkeeper?
Modern drives, particularly SATA drives, are _very_ much faster than flash memory. Moving the boot image to flash would not speed things up, it would slow them down. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."