From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 23 7:54:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D6DD37B41A for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:54:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32710 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Mar 2002 15:55:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Mar 2002 15:55:05 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 16:55:05 +0100 (CET) From: Attila Nagy To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eric_Hedstr=F6m?= Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , Subject: Re: ATA flash card under 4-STABLE In-Reply-To: <3C9CA134.5070407@ucsd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello, > Er, you're trying to boot from the compact flash? Nope, not this time. Although this is the final goal. > You're out of luck doing that from a PCCard slot. You'd have to have a > desktop PC with an ATA/CF connector. You can get it to mount etc. from a > PCCard slot, but only after the system has booted. Why? Because the kernel needs pccardd to recognize the device or because the BIOS isn't aware of the PCMCIA ATA card? If the latter, that's not problem. I've partitioned the disk and I could actually start the loader from it. Because of the problems stated previously (write timeouts) and the lack of time tomorrow, I could not copy the kernel into the flash, so I don't know whether the loader can load that or not. BTW, if the problem is that the kernel needs some kind of userspace activity to get the things up and ready, isn't there a workaround for this? For example when I inserted the flash I got kernel messages saying it found an ata controller with the following parameters [...]. What if I simply insert this into my kernel config? Will try on monday :) Thanks! ps: if this whole thing is not working with FreeBSD, what else should I try? Does NetBSD have better capabilities? Or maybe Linux? (bleh) The project itself is quite interesting (for me). The company wants to buy hundreds of PC104 machines and place them everywhere for monitoring purposes. I would like to say it runs FreeBSD! :) --------[ Free Software ISOs - ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/ ]------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415 (194) cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message