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CF Card Recommendations for ASUS P2B-D + Syba IDE/PATA to CF Adapter

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First post, by AntiRevisionism

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I'm adding a Syba IDE/PATA to CF Adapter to my ASUS P2B-D based system. I'd like to use it to have a pure DOS and W3X option.

Would anyone be able to recommend a reliable CF card to go with this setup? It will just be used to boot up into DOS; no other OSes.

Reply 1 of 3, by effy

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I'd like to know people's experiences too. I had a Verbatim 2GB cf card just up and die on me, suddenly stopped being detected in anything.

Reply 2 of 3, by Joseph_Joestar

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I had good experiences with a Transcend 4GB 133x card.

Works great for DOS 6.22 but it feels a bit slow under Win9x.

My retro builds

Reply 3 of 3, by AntiRevisionism

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I ended up using a Transcend TS2GCF133 2 GB card.

On my first attempt DOS 6.22 installed, but would not boot. I then used a 98SE boot disk, wiped the partition and then did an fdisk /mbr. Installed DOS again (this time letting it configure the 'hard disk' itself) and now no problems booting.

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