From owner-freebsd-small Thu Dec 23 2:51: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10786155EB for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:50:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA12483; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:52:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199912231152.MAA12483@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: any way to boot from compactflash ? To: small@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:52:19 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, does any of you know of hardware that can be used to boot a standard desktop system from a compactflash module ? The idea is to replace the (unreliable and small) floppies in the various picobsd boxes we have around. Most compactflash readers i have seen hook to the parallel port, plus i have no idea on how to program them. On the other hand, when i read advertisement of compactflash devices, they say things like "ATA compatible" which makes me think there must be a relatively simple way to emulate a disk with them... thanks luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message