On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 22:51 +0000, David Boucher wrote:
 Unlike many other types of memory card, CF cards do have wear
 levelling.
 
 A CF card also has all the electronics needed to operate as a
 parallel 
 ATA disk, all that's needed is a simple adapter to connect it up. The 
 host machine sees a perfectly normal (though small) ATA disk, no
 special 
 tricks required. 
Very good to know! I've got an IDE to CF adapter in-use myself, albeit
its working from a purely read-only environment at the minute, I may
consider it for SWMBO's laptop. :)
TOm