[geeks] A few interesting products...

[Jonathan Groll]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:23:28PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:10:52AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> > I was under the impression that nearly all "modern" CF chips have some
> > sort of internal write management to "balance" the writes to memory
> > across the device... 
> 
> That is my understanding.
> 
> And even if they don't, no form of flash is directly IDE compatible, so
> they all need some sort of translator chip.

The little IDE-CF converter that I have is mighty simple - one wire to
each pin of the CF, and there is no chip on it. Is there a translator
chip inside the actual CF unit then?

Cheers,
Jonathan.