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blaznc
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 Posted - 03/12/2008 : 16:31:18
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So I have been using a CF-1.8" IDE adapter for about a year now since my Sony U101 see here;
http://home.comcast.net/~blin408/vaio2.html
I replaced the home made version with one from china off ebay. When I bought my 1610 and replaced the HDD with the CF adapter I realized that there is a recess in the drive bay to allow for 8mm thick drives. The CF-IDE adapter is only as thick as the standard 5mm drive so I figured I could stack another CF card on the adapter and run it as the slave on the primary IDE channel.
Back to the toaster to get the CF plug off another adapter I had
Then stacked it on top of the CF plug on the 1.8" IDE adapter, attached it with some screws and ran about 40 wires to connect it all....
And it works... sort of. The slave device on the primary channel is not enumerated by the BIOS so the first time you boot with it plugged in you must run the BIOS diagnostic to get it to boot off the original master CF. Then in windows it is recognized but only operates at a max of multi-word DMA 2 even with a UDMA-5 enabled card. Still fiddling with the IDE registers to get it to work perfectly but it does work and it allows me now to upgrade my main boot drive and secondary drive seperately with cheaper CF cards. Currently running a 8GB Lexar 300x as my main boot drive and a 8GB PNY 266x as the slave.
Final thoughts... I don't recommend doing this, just spend the $$ to get a reliable factory SSD that works, but I am cheap so decided to give it a shot! |
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