Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:46:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com>, <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The ultimate board! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104171728380.29273-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <200104172150.f3HLoSI38855@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104171610170.19198-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> Chris Dillon writes: > : types of CF cards... ones that are actually CF, and ones that have an > : ATA-Compatible interface. Which kind do we actually need, or will > : either type work? > > No. there is only one type of CF memory card. They all have the > ATA compatibility interface. There are CF cards for ethernet and > modems and such, but that shouldn't matter for tis. Aaah. I was confused when I saw a magazine selling different CF cards of the same brand with supposedly the only difference being the interface type. > : Does the board you will be making have both the MiniPCI and the > : regular PCI slot on them like the board on the website? I'm not sure > : what MiniPCI is supposed to look like, but the card edge connector > : hanging off the left side of the board in the picture on your website > : looks like it would be the regular 3.3V PCI slot, right? Is the area > : just below the CompactFlash slot (which looks somewhat like a pad for > : a PCMCIA slot) actually where the MiniPCI slot would go? If so, is > : MiniPCI similar to or even compatible with CardBus? Or is that for an > : actual PCMCIA/CardBus slot? :-) > > minipci is PCI bus in a different form factor than the traditional > edge connector that we see in PCs. Cardbus is also a different > form factor, but there are other differences for it. I figured MiniPCI was just a smaller PCI form factor, but I wasn't sure if they went so far as to use the physical PCMCIA-type slot or not. I was wondering since the description to the left of the picture of the board on the web site mentions that both a "right-angle" PCI slot and a MiniPCI slot were available on the board. I can only make out what looks like a regular PCI slot and then of course the CompactFlash slot. The only other place on the board for any other kind of slot is just below the CF slot, and it looks to me like it would be used for a PCMCIA slot, just judging by the silkscreen markings on the board and the layout of the solder pads. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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