Hi everyone,
I bought a Siemens Futro S300 thin client (transmeta TM5800, 128MB ram, onboard CF card slot as IDE and another empty 40pin IDE socket) (like this one: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/Futro/s300/).
I researched a little bit on this forum and found that most of the new commercial-grade CF card don't support fixed IDE mode and even don't allow you to flip the removable bit using software...
I plan to do dual boot (win98 and winXP) on two separate CF card, I already bought a Sandisk extreme 32GB (which doesn't support the fixed ide mode at all, I regret it but it was relatively cheap) and will install win98 on it and slide it into the onboard CF slot (I searched some posts stating that win98,DOS, non-NT OS don't check this fix/removable bit and allows you to boot).

But now comes the problem of installing WinXP (SP3 32bit). I heard that there are the hitachi driver or modifications of registry table and all those software tricks, but I really wanted to buy a fix-ide-mode enabled CF card on the hardware level to avoid any future problem. I searched for some industrial cards like transcend CF200I, CF170 (>=32GB) but those were slow (200*0.15KB/S=30MB/s max) and very expensive for which I don't want to shell out a lot of money.

I also found this Transcend 400x 32GB (https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Transcend-32GB-400x-C … ZQAAOSwKulesBk7), which seems to be genuine (ouch, I bought a fake one from aliexpress and regretted it again...), is there anyone who used this as winXP boot drive and could shed some light on whether it supports fix-ide-mode as default?

If not, what will be my choices?
Thanks.
Ivan