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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:26:01 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pcmcia card reader
Message-ID:  <20020723172601.GA11562@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020723.010714.07693686.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20020723001420.E6100-100000@ip134-053-131-078.s131.muohio.edu> <20020722212102.H63571-100000@thought.int.holo.org> <20020723.010714.07693686.imp@bsdimp.com>

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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> probably said:
>             "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> 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.

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