NeXT
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It's a little out of the "vintage" field as it's not an original Pentium but it's so small I'm just dying to use it.
The original 2gb drive has kicked the bucket and I could not switch to a 4gb Travelstar as it's a tiny bit thicker than the caddy will allow so I tried to fit a 4gb Compact Flash card into the unit using a pin adapter and a 4gb SanDisk card.
With the adapter in it behaved like any laptop would with a missing hard drive but with the card installed it would either hang at POST or still not see the card. I then tried numerous other cards in sizes ranging from 4gb to 32mb and it showed the same problem on all of them. The laptop would only behave if you put a real hard drive in it.
What gives? I thought Compact Flash was pretty much ATA compatible?
The original 2gb drive has kicked the bucket and I could not switch to a 4gb Travelstar as it's a tiny bit thicker than the caddy will allow so I tried to fit a 4gb Compact Flash card into the unit using a pin adapter and a 4gb SanDisk card.
With the adapter in it behaved like any laptop would with a missing hard drive but with the card installed it would either hang at POST or still not see the card. I then tried numerous other cards in sizes ranging from 4gb to 32mb and it showed the same problem on all of them. The laptop would only behave if you put a real hard drive in it.
What gives? I thought Compact Flash was pretty much ATA compatible?
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