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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
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I read somewhere you need a specific brand of card reader to create a bootable CF card. Do you know the brand off the top of your head?
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Well, if you have a CF/SD/etc. reader that's IDE, then you don't need anything special. I have an Addonics IDE reader in my desktop, and if you put a card in before bootup, it can be recognized as a removable IDE device. I haven't tried booting, but the manual seems to imply it should work. Plus, a lot of notebooks have USB floppy/CDROM boot support - they could just add support for one or two special units.
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It seems to me it was a USB reader I read about that had that functionality. The writer of the article mentioned that he had tried several brands but it was just the one brand that would permit the card to be formatted as bootable. Of course he wasn't using the card to boot the machine the reader was attached to.
It may have been in the CerfCube Yahoo! group.
What I would like to see is a card reader (preferrably all six/four/three formats) that connects to a floppy ribbon cable as my IDE ports are currently maxed out.
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