StarTech.com 40/44 Pin IDE to Compact Flash SSD Adapter - IDE to CF Card reader - CF to IDE Converter (IDE2CF),Black

I needed to replace an old CF-to-IDE adapter. I have a really fast rugged CF card holding my OS on it. Everything like /tmp /log etc. is in RAM anyway, so it basically holds an embedded OS. This one keeps up with booting quickly, doesn't flake out, and I like the indicator lights.But what sysadmin doesn't like blinking lights?Difficult to hardware mount it though. I took some of the packaging material, cut it to fit on the underside, and mounted it inside the server it boots where the original HD was. My server has a major SATA raid setup but all I needed was something to boot it instead of a USB stick. It's awesome. Plugging it in and getting it to work with the case open was a snap. Getting it firmly to actually physically mount it was a brief challenge, not for a beginner. Getting it to mount the OS was a snap, no problems, totally transparent to the BIOS.

I've seen some reviews here and elsewhere report that their adapters have caught fire and the solder bridge on pins 41/42 was to blame. I don't think that's the case. I looked up the IDE spec and both of those pins are for +5V, one for the logic board and the other for a HDD motor (obviously not relevant here). It looks like Startech made the solder bridge intentionally to carry the 5V throughout the rest of the circuit board. I traced it out and don't see any reason why it would cause a short. I can't explain why some people have had fire issues with theirs, maybe the pins on the underside shorted on something metal while testing? Given the design of the unit it would be pretty easy, especially since there's really no means for mounting this in a case.But so far the adapter has been working great for me.

I bought this to replace a hard drive in a PowerMac G4 with a sawtooth motherboard. The machine has been running about 1 week and no issues. The install was easy and so far the software had no issues recognizing the drive. I’m using a Sandisk Extreme CF card and it is fast. I don’t have benchmarking software but booting and launching programs is 2-3x faster than using the hard drive.I took one star from the value because the back of the board is completely exposed. The hard drive tray for the Mac is all metal. I wish a plastic shield would have been stuck to the bottom of this board to provide extra protection from potential shorts. I have not had any issues but if this was not mounted and just laid inside a computer case I believe there is potential for the adapter to short out.I would buy this again in the future.

We bought this as a simple means to format CF Cards as IDE replacements for old DOS based testing equipment. We used a more expensive StarTech adapter for the front facing bays, but didn't need one for the infrequent setups/formats. This was perfectly suited for an old system using IDE/PATA, SATA, SCSCI and duplicating very old but very necessary system drives.

This adapter has worked wonders in converting my old 386 and 486 computers over to solid state drives. a 4 gig CF card can be formated with maxblast software ddo so that the whole 4 gigs can be recognized. Much better solution than trying to find a 4 gig ide hard drive. I bought several of these to upgrade my old machines with.The down side is that with SOME of the machines the master / slave isn't recognized properly. Sometimes you have to put the ide2cf on a different ide cable from the hard drive or cd-rom. But then you have to remember that machines of this vintage had personalities and even identical hardware would not perform exactly the same. All in all I'm very happy with it. It's allowed me to convert my old machines over to newer technology and keep them going. I highly recommend the ide2cf. One of the advantages this card has over other types is that it does plug into the ribbon cable so that you CAN have two devices on the same cable. That works most of the time. Only 1 out of 5 machines needed to have the ide2cf placed on a different cable from the cd-rom. I have gotten decent speed results with the sandisk 4gb 30mb/s cards. I'm very happy with this product and would recommend it to anyone.One down side is the back of the card has exposed circuitry. I used silicon to glue a small piece of wood to the back, then glued the wood to the top of the floppy drive. This lets me change cf cards without opening the case. works great.

Older semiconductor processing equipment running Win7 embedded off a CF card was down due to card corruption. installed this IDE to CF adapter in an older PC running Clonedisk, and with a new SanDisk CF card an an image from the vendor, created a new Win7 embedded boot disk for this 9 year old piece of equipment. We're back up and running!

This works as it should. I like that you can use 2 of these on a IDE master/slave setup as implied. I bought another one in 2022. I noticed the jumper that says pin 20 for ide 40 pin power can't be used because pin 20 has no pin by default. That is most likely why there is a solder bridge allowing power from the 4 pin floppy molex and the 44 pin ide connector on the same jumper setting.Typically the 44 pin would have power by itself and the 40 pin ide would have external power. So if you try to use the pin/key 20 on the ide 40 pin connector without a 4 pin floppy molex hooked up it won't get power. It should have been noted in the product description, but that important detail was left out. I can't see why one of these would burn up unless there was a short to chassis ground, or an inadvertent insertion of a 3.3volt card with +5volts applied , or by trying to hot swap the cf card.

El producto es bueno y llego rapido, me urgia. buen servicio

Great, high quality adapter - I use these a lot for upgrading old computers to solid-state CompactFlash when the old IDE disks fail. Can't really complain, these work great for that.

Der eine Stern Abzug eben wegen dem Nichtfunktionieren am Alesis. Dieses hat eine IDE-Schnittstelle, die mit den meisten alten 3.5 Zoll Festplatten kompatibel ist.Da steht "UDMA 66/100" gelabelt, und das war zu der Zeit (2002) Standard. Natürlich ist das HD-24 nicht 1000%iger PC-Standard. Dennoch sollte eine IDE-Platte aus der Zeit vom Interface simuliert werden.Auf meinem PC von damals funktioniert der Konverter problemlos, zumindest als zweite Primärplatte hab ich das mit einer 64er CF Karte von Sandisk, die ich extra dafür gekauft habe, getestet.

StarTech stuff is amazing, wouldn’t go with anyone else for parts like this. They’re expensive but worth it. There are a lot of cheap CF to IDE adapters out there but this one is almost guaranteed to work because it’s StarTech. Comes with a lot of options other adapters don’t, like whether your CF card is 5V or 3.3V. Two other jumpers, Master/Slave, and finally one for 40 pin or 44 pin (desktop or laptop IDE). There are solder pads to add an extra LED if you want more detailed information on what’s going on (whether it’s in Master or Slave, etc) but by default there’s a drive activity LED.Works great with my Power Mac G4. Only drawback is it requires a floppy power connector instead of Molex (LP4). Non beige Power Macs don’t have those so I needed to buy a separate adapter.

Acheté pour permettre de booter et installer! un serveur Ubuntu 16.04 sur une carte mère trop vieille (TUSL2-C avec PIIIs) n'ayant pas d'option de boot USB et se passer du fastidieux, et archaïque gravage de CD.Avec cet adaptateur: Téléchargement de l'image iso-> copie via Rufus sur une compact flash (30s avec une SanDisk Extreme III de 2Go!)-> connection (et alim !) sur la nappe IDE de la CM -> BIOS->setup choisir au boot sur l'adaptateur nommé comme le nom de Compactflash et c'est parti! (il y a une manip à faire en plus pour l'install server Ubuntu 14.04 LTS et 16.04 LTS (au moins) mais qui n'a rien à voir avec l'adaptateur)Un seul bemol (mais j'ai vraiment pas beaucoup cherché) car j'ai pas réussi à le faire tourner sans obligatoirement brancher une alim (type lecteur de disquette!) en plus de la nappe IDE, selon la notice avec les jumpers c'est pourtant possible... mais pas réussi (peut-être une nappe IDE non compatible avec cette option?)