On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, PicDude wrote:

*>Thinking of putting my OS on a CF card in my PC, using a CF to IDE adapter.
*>But apparently some CF cards can be made bootable, and others cannot.  Any
*>ideas how to tell which ones will boot and which ones won't?

The ones that support ATA are bootable (ATA = IDE emulation, with
(re)writable sector 0). Apparently there are cards that have sector 0
hardwired somehow. Of course this is not advertised anywhere.

Peter

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