From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Nov 28 03:38:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA02297 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 03:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02279 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 03:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from kim.ispra.webweaving.org (va-83.skylink.it [194.177.113.83]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA32393; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:36:24 +0100 Received: from webweaving.org (brunte.ispra.webweaving.org [10.0.0.5]) by kim.ispra.webweaving.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA17744; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:27:07 GMT X-Passed: MX on Ispra.WebWeaving.org Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:27:07 GMT and masked X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Posted-Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:27:07 GMT Message-ID: <347F18AA.90271FE5@webweaving.org> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:16:59 -0800 From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Reply-To: dirk.vangulik@jrc.it Organization: WebWeaving X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: nl,en,de,it,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, dirk.vangulik@jrc.it Subject: Re: Flash card support References: <199811280007.RAA14667@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh wrote: > What's the current level of flash card support in FreeBSD? A quick grep > of the kernel shows nothing interesting.... If with flash-card you mean 'CompactFlash' card, then with PAO, it works like a dream. With the unpatched 3.0 kernel it works too; but you have to be little more careful when taking out the card; i.e. anything mounted and it hangs hard. Likewise for a pccardc power down. But with PAO, no problems at all. Though my exprience is limitited to just 6 cards from Sandisk, Kodak, Hitatchi and an IBM card (5, 5, 10, 35Mb and 128Mb) they are so similar that I really would be surprized if it could not be generalized. Judging from the list of entries in PAO's /etc/pccardc.conf this is a general thing. (Or it is because everyone OEMs of sandisk it seems :-) They appear as a WDC1770 controller; i.e just compile in a wdc2. On a desktop machine you obviously need to compile cdr0 etc in as well. I use them with my kodak camera, my Psion 5 and with a plastic adaptor thing on a Vaio laptop and, with a ISA/PCMCIA adaptor from kento on two desktop machines. To ensure compatibility with the kodak camera and the psion I use a normal dos file system on them. It mounts right away. The only catch is that the camera gets unhappy if you fiddle with upper and lower case file names; and when there is a space in the name. But apparently the latest firmware upgrade from kodak fixes this. But I've not tried this. So I modified the msdos fs to always write un uppercase and be a little less strickt when matching in unix. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message