Boot your PC off a Compact Flash card.
This device is an IDE to Compact Flash adapter designed to fit directly into an open IDE controller port. Some uses for this device are taking an existing PC system and making it more appliance like by using a compact flash card to replace an IDE hard drive. Compact Flash has no moving parts and is a great choice for dedicated firewalls, routers and wireless access points.
It has one IDE connector for connecting to your systems IDE controller. It also has one floppy disk style power connector for power. In addition it provides status LED lights.
Features
- Directly plugged into IDE connector on the motherboard without an IDE cable
- No external power needed when used on VIA’s EPIA series motherboard
Applications
- Linux-based set-top boxes, routers, firewalls
- Diskless network clients
- Industrial computers
- Any other device requiring rugged solid-state storage
Specification
- Board size: 61mm x 52mm x 0.8mm (W, L, T)
- On-board LED indicators for power-on and compact flash access
- Voltage selection for +3.3V or +5V compact flash
- Master or slave mode selection
- Power input: +5V, floppy disk drive power connector
- Fully compatible with Compact Flash Type I, Type II, and Micro-drive
40-way (2.54mm) standard IDE connector
- This adapter does NOT support hot insertion of CF cards
System Requirement
- PC or Mac with one IDE connector
- MS Windows, Mac OS, BSD, Linux operating system
Included
- IDE to CF adapter
- User manual
