From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 9:58:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08FDB154F3; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:58:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA40632; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:58:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA15284; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:58:59 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001121758.KAA15284@harmony.village.org> To: Marcin Cieslak Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic) Cc: "Forrest W. Christian" , Mike Smith , Geff Hanoian , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:11:40 +0100." References: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:58:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Marcin Cieslak writes: : Once there I managed to read a flash card containing Cisco IOS : (it was M-Systems - or other manufacturer). However, the flash : was one of linear types - just plain of bytes, and no wd/ata emulation. : pccardd from PAO (3.2 then I guess) of course didn't detect : nor load the driver, but I read this using pccardc without any problem : (all filesystem structure, very simple at the moment and file contents). : I guess that some special operation would be required to program : the flash, but... Actually, I've toyed with the diea of adding support for the linear FLASH pccards. I have several, but no time to even think about this sort of project. The linear flash cards don't have an ata interface, so PAO and soon -current won't recognize them. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message