I think the issue is your CF card. You need a high quality one by Sandisk or Kingston. The low end/no-name ones are really hit or miss. I have a brand-less 1GB card that is crazy fast, another that is 4GB and it is slow. The average CF2IDE adapter is a purely passive adapter, there's no logic …

r.cade wrote: Cheap Chinese electronics are unreliable. That is the trade-off... 😀 Thats a fair point! But in that regard would it be the Adapter itself or the CF Card that should be replaced?

Anyone else with a CF2IDE setup get those random read\write drive failure errors? They started off pretty minimal but seem to be happening more as i do more operations with my new DOS-Rig. Tends to happen sometimes during file transfers, or when loading a bigger game like Quake. Has crashed the …