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Opening up these compact flash cards. Smaller ones have 2 large chips on the front and some have an additional 3 chips covering the entire back. The bigger cards have a large button battery and a small one. The connection is rows of gold plated receptacles for pins. Oscar has said high peripheral to high grade non sata had which is right?

I think you’re fairly safe going with non-sata hard drives on these considering M2 and EPE cards also go there

please remove the batteries first

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Thank you lostinlodos that me confused. That answer clears up some other ones I was on the same boat in.

One more question on these smaller guys Lost. Working my way through a bunch of ThinkPad,s and each has one of these by itself. What is it? And where would it go?

looks like pin socket Wi-Fi cards

hi telco

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I tacked the compact flash cards onto an email to Chris about other boards. He said these go into high telecom once you crack the shell off. There are others that go into high non sata hdd but not these.

Like I always warn those that ask, I make mistakes.
I learned something today

CF is a very old and mature format. Originally an extension/hop on to ATA and then SATA. Older cards have multiple non-storage ICs.
I wasn’t quite sure on the Samsung.
I figured the memory controller on the inno was enough.

New conclusion: you need population of memory, memory controller, AND bus controller. ;)

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Thank you Lost! You are a wealth of information. I've moved them all over to the appropriate box and just wanted to post up what Chris said for others to find