ide compact flash adapters

[alexh]

rkauer wrote:
First your Amiga will burn something, more likely the IDE controller (Gayle).

Dunno how it will set fire to his Gayle when the card is plugged into a Zorro II Buddha board? ;-)

While it is not good practice, all that will really happen is you will corrupt the contents of your card if you have written to it while it was removed or you plugged in a different card.

[alexh]

blanning wrote:
I was hoping the ide adapters were smart enough to disconnect the "drive" upon removal.

Why? They are just wires, nothing else. CF cards are little more than IDE devices and the adapters just change the connector shape.

blanning wrote:
Thanks for the info.  I didn't realize there was more than just memory in a CF card.

There is a PCMCIA PC-Card to NAND flash controller chip.