{"id":9231,"date":"2008-02-09T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/compact-flash-in-the-trashwall\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:37","slug":"compact-flash-in-the-trashwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/compact-flash-in-the-trashwall\/","title":{"rendered":"Compact Flash in the Trashwall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I won this eBay auction for some Compact Flash to IDE adapters<\/a>. As you can see in the image, those adapters are supposed to plug right into a 40-pin ATA port. In the Trashwall<\/a> I was hoping to plug one of these right into the main board and use it for booting the OS from a compact flash<\/a> card.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the seller instead sent me a normal end-of-cable mount adapter, similar to the one used in my MAME Cabinet<\/a>, except without the second slot. At least it was the newer version which supports DMA transfers, which was one of the big things I wanted.<\/p>\n

This evening I took the adapter<\/a>, screwed some old motherboard standoffs into it<\/a>, then screwed it into one of the Power Mac G4 AGP’s drive trays<\/a>. Despite being something other than what I wanted to use, it has worked out pretty well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the two fastest (specification) cards I have are my Sandisk Ultra II 2GB and the el-cheapo Micro Center<\/a>-branded 2GB card, which are both DMA Mode 2 devices. While this isn’t too slow, it’s not as nice as what I’d get if I were to shove one of the newer Transcend 133x<\/a> as did with his IBM z50<\/a>. But, being cheap and trying to keep with the spirit of the Trashwall<\/a>, I’ll use the spare, leftover Micro Center card.<\/p>\n

Now, I just need to install OpenBSD on it again, fit it in the rack, and get it integrated into the network here. Hopefully I can do that tomorrow. For now, beer and relaxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I won this eBay auction for some Compact Flash to IDE adapters. As you can see in the image, those adapters are supposed to plug right into a 40-pin ATA port. In the Trashwall I was hoping to plug one of these right into the main board and use it for booting the OS\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24701,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions\/24701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}