[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

[Roy Lofthouse]

On 02/03/2008, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
>  > I was wondering...will any CF-to-IDE adapter work under linux or only
>  >  certain brands/models?
>
>
> Any CF-to-IDE adapter will work, as the CompactFlash standard is, at
>  it's heart, IDE. All a CF-to-IDE adapter has to do is to convert the
>  electrical connections from 40-pin 3mm IEC + Molex power to CF. The
>  rest is handled by the card itself, which presents itself as a small
>  hard-drive. Some newer CF cards even support UDMA like hard-drives.
>
>  However, the CF-to-SATA adapters I'm not so sure about. I don't have
>  any experience with those, so I can't tell you what compatibility they
>  have. But given they are just presenting a standard hard-drive-like
>  interface to the computer, I don't see any issue there either.
>
> --
>  Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
>
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I've been running Minimyth on a CF for at least two years..no probs
whatsoever.  Excellent distro for frontends.