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CenturionFive:

--- Quote from: dabone on November 10, 2004, 11:38:09 am ---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.


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The way the IDE bus reads and writes to a drive is vastly different from the way that  most flash drives a read from and written to.  There is a lot more and faster acivity on an IDE bus than what many CF cards were designed for.  Many of the newer CF cards will state that they are directly IDE accessible and they are OK but many older ones will lose data or even segments of memory when used in an IDE converter.

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