No more "fixed" CompactFlash being made?

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The supplier we get our CF's from has warned us that in a matter of months,
CompactFlash flagged or flagable 'fixed' to the OS (as opposed to
removable) will no longer be manufactured.

He can provide us with another device from a different manufacturer after
stock runs out, but that would only be a temporary solution (for the same
reason).

The only alternative would be to switch from CF to solid state disks (at a
per-device cost that's a multiple).


I haven't been following the news too closely, so now I have two questions:

1) How much of what he's telling us is true?

2) Has anything changed at the software side that makes it possible to use
XP with EWF enabled on a CompactFlash with the configuration bit set to
"removable"? Hasn't anyone found a clever hack to make it work?

.

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