Editing CompactFlash (section)

====Use in place of a hard disk drive====
[[File:CompactFlash to SATA adapter with card.jpg|thumb|CompactFlash to [[SATA]] adapter with a card inserted]]

In early 2008, the CFA demonstrated CompactFlash cards with a built in [[SATA]] interface.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2007/11/17/submerged-camera-holds-functional-memory-card-two-years-after-ac/|title=Submerged camera holds functional memory card two years after accident|website=engadget.com|date=17 November 2007 |access-date=18 March 2018}}</ref> Several companies make adapters that allow CF cards to be connected to [[Peripheral Component Interconnect|PCI]], [[PCMCIA]], [[Parallel ATA|IDE]] and [[SATA]] connections,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.addonics.com/products/cf_adapter/|title=Compact Flash and Secure Digital Adapters|publisher=Addonics|access-date=2008-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509161613/http://www.addonics.com/products/cf_adapter/|archive-date=2008-05-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> allowing a CF card to act as a [[solid-state drive]] with virtually any operating system or BIOS, and even in a [[RAID]] configuration.

CF cards may perform the function of the master or slave drive on the IDE bus, but have issues sharing the bus. Moreover, late-model cards that provide [[Direct memory access|DMA]] (using UDMA or MWDMA) may present problems when used through a passive adapter that does not support DMA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/cf.html|title=CompactFlash cards and DMA/UDMA support in True IDE (tm) mode|website=www.fccps.cz|access-date=18 March 2018}}</ref>