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IBM X20 MicroDrive Slot (CF Card)

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IBM X20 MicroDrive Slot (CF Card)

#1 Post by mati5000 » Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:46 pm

Hello

I lost my original 1GB CF card aka microdrive :) it's possible to run another replacement ? I think about CF card from my camera. Card have a size 8GB.
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Re: IBM X20 MicroDrive Slot (CF Card)

#2 Post by Temetka » Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:06 pm

A CF card will work fine. You will need an adapter. I assume you just want to put this in the PCMCIA slot and use it for more storage to augment the space on the HDD.

If you want to boot from it, you will need an IDE to CF adapter. I don't know which model will work with your T20 as I have never tried this. I have read dozens of threads though concerning people booting from CF using an IDE adapter. I'd google that and go from there.

You might find this page useful: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/CompactFlash_boot_drive
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