my ide to cf mod

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mylise
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my ide to cf mod

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I used my soldering skills to solder primary ide port to internal cf connector that was desoldered from webdt board. I used #28 wirewrap wires. I used black tape to isolate each pins from each other and the board. I have 2 silicon power cf cards, one with xp and the other with puppy linux. I just pop in the cf card I want to boot from. Everything is self contained. I know that I have no more cf card slot to ti cardbus but I really do not need it.

Search for "CTAN007-TrueIDE pdf" for pin connections.
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Nice Work!With the tiny DOM gone you can have any OS,cool!
I had never been inspired to try what you did.It never occured to me.
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mylise wrote: Search for "CTAN007-TrueIDE pdf" for pin connections.
I have found this http://www.cactus-tech.com/download/CTAN007-TrueIDE-20080603.pdf document. If this is the one you refer to it shows "a sample schematic of how to connect the pins from a CF Card socket to a 40 pin ATA connector on a typical host motherboard so that the CF Card can be used in TrueIDE mode". The DT366 has a 44 pin connector. Did you wire the DT366 up as per the 40 pin drawing? If I did not get the proper document could you kindly post the one you used?

Have you actually tested this setup and found it working?

Bruce
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Would it be possible to get some more high res pictures?

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Re: my ide to cf mod

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Yes, that is the right document, Bruce

Sorry ... the last 4 pins are
41      +3.3VDC                      42      +3.3VDC
43      GND                              44      Type (0==ATA)


Connect pins 41 and 42 together to where VCC is identified on pcmcia_cf connector.
Pin 43 is connect to gnd
Pin 44 is NOT connected anywhere

Please note that CF connector has all pins in a row on the motherboard. You must be careful with the assignments
1 26 2 27 3 28 ... 24 49 25 50

For the primary IDE you have
2 4 6 ... 42 44
1 3 5 ... 41 43

Use the following jumper settings seen in the document
Master ... short 1,2
DMA support ... short 7,8
DMA support ... short 9,10
NOTE: I did not use an IDC header but directly connected these wires together!           


for additional pictures,click http://imgur.com/TVwVb.jpg
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Sorry for the limits on pictures. I ask that you link to external galleries. Over the past two years I have been out of work twice due to injury, relocated three times and generally cant afford much in the form of bandwidth. I wont allow advertisements here out of principle and often disappear of the map for a month or so at a time when I do go out of work or relocate. As I cant maintain the site like I want to external links make sense.

By the way congrats on your mod! Nice job.

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I wonder if somebody els make this mod. and post if it is working oke and some pictures from the mod.
I own a dt366 and i use it for Homeseer HStouch as a touchpanel for my homecontol.
The problem with CE5.0 is it supports no transparency. :'(
With tinyxp the problem i get is the program Hstouch.exe for windows crasht.
So if this mod. is working fine, i can get a full windows xp version running.

Thanks in advance
John
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