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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:05:49 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Schematic for CF adapter. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006292357110.7775-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006300422.WAA38583@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006291824140.3926-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> "Forrest W. Christian" writes:
> : Does someone have a schematic for what those CF adapters really do?  Most
> : that I've seen appear to have some "active" components (meaning in this
> : context something other than a trace on a circuit board and sockets)
> 
> They are just traces.  There are no active components. Well, you are
> supposed to have a bias cap between power and ground, but that's
> literally it.

Thats what I guessed... However, I was looking at
http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm and it looks like they have a few more
caps on the board, etc. etc.    However, it DOES look like they are just
bypass caps like you said.


> : Or a source for *REALLY* cheap adapters?
> 
> Define really cheak.  There was a URL posted here a while ago with
> them, but I can't find it now.  The TARP ones work, but are pricy.  We 
> make our own for about $25, but now you can get them from somewhere
> (and I can't find it) for about that.  Is that cheap enough?

the above is about $20.00.   I don't have one in my hand, but there is
*something* I don't like about this one and I can't put my finger on it -
maybe it's the mounting or something.  I *REALLY* need to buy one of these
and figure out what it is that I don't like so I can figure out if it is
really critical.

What would be really cool is one which just stuck directly in the IDE jack
on the motherboard and the cf stuck in it.  No cables and likely light
enough to not need mounting.

> : (I'd also be interested in sources for cheap CF cards).

If flash were only as cheap as sdram...

- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE
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