Andrew, You should look for a product called "Disk On Module". They are composed of FLASH chips and are designed to be direct replacements for IDE hard drives. Unlike a lot of CF cards that can be used with an CF to IDE adapter but might not support CHS addressing, DOMs are designed as IDE replacements so they do proper wear leveling and will fully emulate an IDE device, including both CHS and LBA addressing. (A lot of newer CF cards only do LBA addressing.)
I replaced a dead 60MB laptop hard drive with a 512MB DOM. It was smaller, takes less power, has more capacity, and has no moving parts. DOMs come in both 40 and 44 pin varieties and range in size from 32MB to 4 or 8GB. Assuming the BIOS of your machine can autodetect hard drives, using a DOM as a replacement for a hard drive should be easy. Some early machines restrict the choice of hard drive by hard coding the BIOS to only accept certain models; those BIOSes need to be patched. But a conventional IDE BIOS should work fine with a DOM. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
