[geeks] CF as IDE

[Nate]

On Aug 2, 2009, at 8:53 AM, tom at borton.info wrote:

> There is a critical difference between them: most off-the-shelf CF  
> cards do not support any form of DMA.

Well...

Pretty much all Transcends do, and you can rely on their website to  
say whether a given CF model does or doesn't.

SanDisk on the other hand, heh, well, they have a couple of software  
tools that they used to make available to customers if they signed an  
NDA that could turn DMA on/off and also flip the "removable" flag on  
the media (some operating systems like Windows have issues installing  
and running the OS from media flagged as removable).

I managed to track both those SanDisk tools down, so they are out  
there, FYI.  Otherwise, if you go the CF route, I'd recommend sticking  
with Transcend and reading their spec pages.

- Nate