So there is no any? I have CDROM PCMCIA boot disk, so I thought that there is one for CF adapters.

It can work, just need to find the correct driver for it, I'll test some this week.

Any luck? Trying to achieve the same thing, even the adapter is exactly the same.

Great question. I'm looking for the same thing for a couple of my pcmcia to cf adapters as well. I hope someone can shed some light on this. As a workaround you can use win98 on another partition and move your files within win98 and then make the dos partition bootable after the fact...I wouldn't know exactly how to do it but I'm sure it is possible....just a thought.

For DOS you can try CardSoft. I had it running on my old DOS laptop. You do need info on your PCMCIA hardware though, as there are a lot of CardSoft packages out there, made for specific hardware/laptops.

Niezgodka wrote:

So there is no any? I have CDROM PCMCIA boot disk, so I thought that there is one for CF adapters.

Hi, any chance of sharing that boot disk image'?
I have an old HP PCMCIA connected CDROM but I was only able to use it in Windows, would love to give it a try with Dos.

Thanks

For the PCMCIA-CF card adapter, here you go:
http://www.tssc.de/site/default.aspx#http://w … ab/default.aspx
Tested with a noname PCMCIA-CF adapter and cards ranging from 32MB to 2GB, in pure DOS of course, you don't even need to load Card&Socket services in your config.sys.

Yes it's a 14 days trial version with a waiting screen, but if it works fine, might as well spend a bit, right?

Thanks lolo799...might be worth a try. I will have to give it a shot when I get some time.

The drivers provided in the usual Cardsoft services are either for really old flash ram pcmcia cards or type-III hdd, so those there are your best bet.

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Niezgodka wrote:

So there is no any? I have CDROM PCMCIA boot disk, so I thought that there is one for CF adapters.

Hi, any chance of sharing that boot disk image'?
I have an old HP PCMCIA connected CDROM but I was only able to use it in Windows, would love to give it a try with Dos.

Thanks

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Why don't you check the Vendor and Device ID of the adapter? That might help you find a driver.

mockingbird wrote:

Why don't you check the Vendor and Device ID of the adapter? That might help you find a driver.

The adapters are very generic and only connect lines, it's the PCMCIA part of the notebook that needs drivers.

lolo799 wrote:

For the PCMCIA-CF card adapter, here you go: http://www.tssc.de/site/default.aspx#http://w … ab/default.aspx Tested with a nonam […]
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For the PCMCIA-CF card adapter, here you go:
http://www.tssc.de/site/default.aspx#http://w … ab/default.aspx
Tested with a noname PCMCIA-CF adapter and cards ranging from 32MB to 2GB, in pure DOS of course, you don't even need to load Card&Socket services in your config.sys.

Yes it's a 14 days trial version with a waiting screen, but if it works fine, might as well spend a bit, right?

Thank you very much! ATAENAB works well for me, I can access my CF card via PCMCIA.

UNATA should work too.

lolo799 wrote:

UNATA should work too.

Unfortunately, it does not 🙁

I made a batch file to surpass the trial period limitations. It consists of two lines and with it ATAENAB will work forever:
date 09-11-2015
ataenab

I don't care about the broken date, at least not on a DOS gaming machine 😀 I'd love to buy the product, but 40 euros +20 for shipping is way too much, I bought the libretto for less.

I have an almost exactly the same PCMCIA CF adapter on a Toshiba Tecra 710CDT.

However, trying to use ATAENAB and UNATA, I cant seem to get it working with my 4GB CF card.

I tried also changing the PCMCIA chip to CARDBUS /16-bit mode, but it did not work with UNATA and CBATA.

What could be going wrong?

It is not too high chance, but I would check setup settings for boot options. My IBM Thinkpad 340 can boot from PCMCIA, which means that no drivers are needed if I make the CF card bootable and boot system from it. In this case the internal HDD becomes drive D:
Another option to consider for large amounts of data, is to build paralel to SD card interface. It is quite easy to solder and driver works on XT (altough it is slow) and it can serve as a quite universal way to transfer data between old machines.

Many thanks for your suggestions!

I will check boot options as well, and I have in the mean time bought some other smaller 1GB CF cards.

I am also making a serial-to-wifi adapter.

xnplater wrote on 2025-04-13, 09:43:

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I have an almost exactly the same PCMCIA CF adapter on a Toshiba Tecra 710CDT.

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However, trying to use ATAENAB and UNATA, I cant seem to get it working with my 4GB CF card.

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I tried also changing the PCMCIA chip to CARDBUS /16-bit mode, but it did not work with UNATA and CBATA.

What could be going wrong?

For anyone who ran into the same or similar issue, in my case it was necessary to exclude the range D000-D0FF from EMM386! Now ATAENAB and UNATA both work (did not try CBATA).