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Good for running lightweight Linux distro on 9-year old Acer laptop. I was able try to try out Tiny Core Linux on a 512MB SD card by substituting this adapter for the hard drive, whose contents I did not wish to disturb. Don't try to run Windows from SD card as it will run very slowly. You may see articles on the web that suggest that you can use very cheap IDE to CF card adapters for this, but I think the laptops that were used were very old, they probably ran Windows 95 or 98. I tried one of these, but my laptop's BIOS wouldn't recognise the CF adapter.
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Looks like it's made well, but I can't get it to work. I Installed a Linux distro on an SD card, which I inserted into the IDE to SD adaptor and then put it in an older Packard Bell laptop instead of its IDE harddrive. The BIOS recognizes the IDE to SD adaptor, but flashes a warning because of the software version of the chip on the IDE to SD card adaptor (version 1.2), and doesn't do anything more. So I can't get it to work. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can get this IDE to SD card adaptor to work, please let me know...
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Brilliant, Not only can I used it on a laptop, but bought a 2.5" IDE *Laptop* to 3.5" IDE *Desktop* adapter for it to use on my desktop retro build also. Ruining Dos and win 98 gaming from a sd is a joy.
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Works perfectly, and with a half decent SD card it actually gives far better performance than the old IDE hard drive it replaced. Even better, it works perfectly with a 64GB MicroSD card, despite saying it's limited to 32 GB cards.
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Bought a Korg D16 with a noisy 2Gb hard disk. This little miracle was the perfect replacement and has been trouble free with a 32Gb SD card. Very impressed!
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