i've essentially never had any luck whatsoever with IDE to CF card adapters. all the retro tech people swear by them but i've tried 4 different types of adapters with 5 different CF cards (tiny, huge, normal, industrial etc) in 4 different PCs and laptops and i've literally never had any kind of success whatsoever getting them to boot or even recognize them as a disk. whereas, every SD to IDE adapter i've owned has worked flawlessly on everything with any sized SD card i try
@mavica_again throwback to 'fond' memories of using an sd card that'd been in a raspberry pi in my camera
@mavica_again maybe i'm too dumb to work out the heads/cylinder config or something. that CF cards are just an IDE device seems elegant to me, and i'd love to use them, but the SD card solution has always just worked, with no real overhead since the machines are so slow to begin with i guess. although i do have to buy industrial cards so they don't get immediately annihilated by all the random writes