From owner-freebsd-small Mon Dec 28 14:52:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06140 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06134 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA23993; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:57:49 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:57:49 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Jason J. Horton" cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM PC110 with CompactFlash In-Reply-To: <3687F513.36B9DCD0@intercom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Jason J. Horton wrote: > Has anyone had any luck getting a PC110 running FreeBSD from > the Compact Flash slot? Would anyone recommend a brand of > flash chip? Well, I hope someone will speak up, because I can offer only some general remarks, having no on-hands experience with CompactFlash: * if possible, use IDE flash - it's easiest to support on various OS-es. * then, try to use M-Systems' DiskOnChip - there is a driver for it. * if not, all devices which are accessible via BIOS INT13h will work as long as you only want to boot from them - once you start the kernel, they are inaccessible. Once upon a time some people (msmith) were trying to write a disk driver using BIOS INT13h and VM86, and failed (AFAIK they still have nightmares from that experience... ;-) * and finally, I have no idea what is the interface between the CompactFlash and the rest of the h/w and s/w. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message