[geeks] A few interesting products...

[Mark]

On 22 Jun 2008, at 20:09, Jonathan Groll wrote:

> 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?

I'd have thought so, I think what Joshua was saying is the physical  
chips themselves are not IDE compatible, CF cards likely have a small  
bridge chip and a large Flash chip inside them, that outputs to CFII  
(which is ATA, essentially).

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