Interesting, I did not know that.
In the Old '486 days, the older '486 PCMCIA Slots were 8bit while Pentiums introduced the 16bit PCMCIAs. And in those days, though you could not get a 16bit card into an 8bit slot, you can get an 8bit card into a 16bit slot and but it will run in 8bit mode. I thought it was this mode you were speaking of. My old '486 Toshibas keep reminding me of this as the many 16 but cards I own does not fit into their slots.
The behavior however, as I stated above, booting a CF on PCMCIA is a lot faster than booting it off the IDE. About twice as fast.
In the Old '486 days, the older '486 PCMCIA Slots were 8bit while Pentiums introduced the 16bit PCMCIAs. And in those days, though you could not get a 16bit card into an 8bit slot, you can get an 8bit card into a 16bit slot and but it will run in 8bit mode. I thought it was this mode you were speaking of. My old '486 Toshibas keep reminding me of this as the many 16 but cards I own does not fit into their slots.
The behavior however, as I stated above, booting a CF on PCMCIA is a lot faster than booting it off the IDE. About twice as fast.