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Wade:

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CF-BOOTER-N&cat=CAM

I have a Mame cocktail with a minimal setup, about 12 games.  It has a small hard drive in it.

I saw this for $30 was was thinking I could put an old 8 or 16M smartmedia card to use, and run the cocktail diskless.  For doing updates or adding games, I could just pull the card out and stick it in my desktop machine.  The description says the card will be bootable just like a hard drive.

Has anyone used one of these?  I think I am going to buy one just to see how it works.  If it doesn't work for this purpose, I will use it on my desktop machine, which really needs it's own card reader anyway, instead of the USB reader I keep lugging around.

Opinions?

Wade



Wade:

Just saw that it can only boot on the CF card it appears.  Still, smaller CF cards can be picked up for $10 or so.

Wade

dag2000:

WORKING LINK

dabone:

I had my vertical cab running on a cf to ide adapter. It worked fine for about a week then it lost all the info on the card.
It didn't damage the card, but I had to redo everything.

Not sure what caused it, but I'd be leary of installing one for reliablilty reasons.


Later,
dabone


pointdablame:

Not sure what could have caused you to lose all your data, but depending on your setup, you could get everything up and running and simply drop a back up of the CF card onto a CD.  If the card ever loses the data, it'll only take a minute or two to get up and running, no?

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