Re: CompactFlash IDE - not recognized

Thanks. I did in fact have the card in. As a "passive' device would I need
to worry about the "removable" characteristic of the card. I have seen
folks discuss a utility to make the disk "fixed"... do you think that could
be it?


The "adapter" is transparent to the IDE hardware, you did have a card in
it when you powered the machine ? - the BIOS would need to see the card
during POST for it to work, some cards do not support the generic IDE mode
required.

Jon




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