Replacing HDD with CF or SSD on a 365 or 380

[JPOESQ]

Has anyone replaced the hard drive in a 365 or 380 with a CF and IDE adapter?

[vkim]

I am about to do it on my Transnote - the adapter just arrived today. Will post the results...

[emeu1]

Hello,

tried it on my 365XD two/three years ago.
Didn't work (365XD simply sees no hard disk).
I must admit that I only had one (cheap) CF/IDE adapter and cheap no-name 8Gb CF card to try.

Kind regards,

Erik

[vkim]

Well. I tried this on my Transnote.
With a 2GB A-Data CF, the laptop boots and works fine under MS-DOS. Didn't try any Windows (the disk is too small).
With a Silicon Power 16GB 200x Professional CF, I could see the HDD and even use Ghost, but the laptop won't boot from it.
I didn't get enough time to play more....

[Omineca]

The 365x/xd boot from a pcmcia slot (set the boot priority to do this in the BIOS). The other 365 models likely do as well.

I've been running slackware 11 (the older kernel plays nicely with the machine) on a 4 gb cf card in a pcmcia adapter ($4 or less on eBay, shipped) for at least a year. It runs beautifully -- and is completely silent.