CF card at IDE port: Removable drive !?!

Which is rather obviously true. It doesn't get much more removable than that, and even though there's no rotation involved in this CF card, by virtue of its interface it _is_ a drive.

So use something else than XP to do it.

I doubt you can.

The first two bytes of the IDE Identify information for a CompactFlash card are a signature (848Ah) designed to tell hosts that this is a CompactFlash card. I would guess XP is making its "removable" decision from this information.

If all else fails, use a Linux boot disk to partition the drive manually. Then use XP to format it if you wish.

Where to get this SanDisk utility?

Juergen

--Rocky

CompactFlash

the

Is there any other place to download this utility?

We could not find it in SanDisk website. We also emailed to oem but ther is still no response.

Can anyone send it via email if you have this utility.

Warning, it only works on Sandisk cards AFAIK. The file you need is atcfwchg.com or ndcfwchg.com according to which microcontroller is in the card, and it is not permissible to distribute this material (was made available under NDA).

FYI ALCON, there's a brief discussion of the CF "fixed disk" issues at .

We ended up using CF cards from Silicon Systems to host XPE and have been pretty happy with them. Can't say the same for XPE but that wasn't my choice ... ;-)