Syba IDE/PATA to CF Adapter with Bracket Connects Compact Flash to 2.5 3.5-Inch IDE Host Interface Hard Drive SD-CF-IDE-BR

First off, I ordered both the Syba and Startech version of the same product. To my surprise they are exactly the same. See in the photo. My guess is they're made by the same manufacturer and the only differentiator is the company's sticker on the back.As such, both work equally -- DMA mode cannot be enabled in Windows 98 SE, however, UDMA mode works by default in Windows 2000. My guess is W98 is just more picky with regards to mainboard drivers for the IDE BUS. No hassles otherwise. Works as advertised.

Utilizado para usar CF como disco duro en máquinas antiguas. Si se desea se puede quitar el braquet metalico y colocarlo dentro del gabinete.

used a few of these on old msdos machines with 2g ino disk cards, work well

It's been 6 months about. The computer with this in it has been running 24/7 for 6 months! Still working great! Yes it reads from the CF card constantly and super fast no issues. I'm pretty sure this device will outlive the CF card.

I've purchased about a dozen StarTech CF-IDE adapters for various retro computers but I decided to try the Syba since it was half the cost and I didn't need a drive bay.I'm happy to say it works perfectly in my 20 year-old retro computer (an old AMD computer from 1997). I'm using this card with a SanDisk 16 GB CF and, unlike some of the super-cheap cards, this DOES send the HDD activity indicator to the motherboard so the LED does work properly. The overall build quality seems good and the CF card rails are deep enough so I don't feel like I'm going to bend the pins. Inserting and removing the card is smooth. The slot opening does come rather close to the edge of my case's back bracket but I didn't run into any clearance issues with my particular PC case.