Date   : Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:05:28 +0100
From   : Eelco Huininga <eelco@...>
Subject: CompactFlash memory and the IDE interface (was:Connecting a BBC Micro

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> The 16-bit interface is stable. I have one working one here. It
> needs four modifications doing to the PCB. The earlier apparent
> problems were actually ADFS getting in the way. If a drive has
> never had an ADFS filesystem on it, then ADFS ignores any attempt
> to write to it, and gives no errors. I modified the HDInit program
> to write to the hardware directly.

Anyone ever tried hooking a CompactFlash memory card to an IDE 
interface? Since the CompactFlash bus can be set to 'True IDE' mode, it 
  becomes in fact an ordinary IDE device, and should be able to plug 
into the IDE interface.

Eelco