From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 23 11: 3:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFC337B4CF for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9NI3En82517; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:03:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA09059; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:03:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010231803.MAA09059@harmony.village.org> To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: Boot off USB SanDisk? Cc: Wilko Bulte , David Miller , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:32:43 PDT." References: Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:03:13 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Luigi Rizzo writes: : > > You can use a IDE <-> CF adapter to boot off this device. You can't : > > boot it off via the USB device however. : > : > As a matter of curiosity: what does such an adapter cost (roughly) ? : : i bought one from TAPR (www.tapr.org i think) for some 59US$ : but it is really just a connector and a PCB so i suppose it is : just a matter of volumes to get a better price I've seen them in the $20-$50 range myself. If you are making 100s of these things, they cost in the ballpark of $20 each to make if you have the right infrastructure. The $20 ones are from one of the embedded PC houses. The ones we make for our own internal use have special mounting requirements that the commercially available ones did not fullfil. The board is dead simple. Two connectors, a pc board, some traces and a bypass cap (optional: M/S jumper and a led activity light). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message