Re: Off Topic -- CF hard disk in PC?

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <y46dnWk8YdfcHOvenZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
 "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> 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.html
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I 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.

Shhh!!!  Don't tell Microsoft!

<http://www.everythingusb.com/windows_vista.html>

Greg B.

PS.  Yea, I know flash is supposed to get faster, but I couldn't resist 
after a straight line like that...

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