From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 23 10:26: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449AC37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA6043E31 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 17X3Q9-00033u-00 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:26:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:26:01 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcmcia card reader Message-ID: <20020723172601.GA11562@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020723001420.E6100-100000@ip134-053-131-078.s131.muohio.edu> <20020722212102.H63571-100000@thought.int.holo.org> <20020723.010714.07693686.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020723.010714.07693686.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "M. Warner Losh" probably said: > "Brian W. Buchanan" writes: > : I believe that most (all?) such devices have virtually no real logic on > : them, and merely provide a little hardware "glue" between the PCMCIA > : and the flash. The flash itself even provides the CIS manufacturer/card > : strings; they vary from CF to CF, but not from adapter to adapter. > Most of the actual readers (as opposed to the non-hot-swappable pci > cards for wireless) have real bridges on them. All the ones I've ever > tried work, modulo some pci issues with the 6729 based ones that I have. I think the question was about CF -> PCMCIA adaptors, not PCMCIA -> PCI adaptors. The SanDisk CF -> PCMCIA adaptors I have are just electrical adaptors, no logic on them, and it depends on the flash if they'll work and not on the adaptor (but every flash card I have works). P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message