From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 30 0: 5: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB5137B724 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrestc@imach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08005; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:05:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:05:49 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Schematic for CF adapter. In-Reply-To: <200006300422.WAA38583@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message "Forrest W. Christian" writes: > : Does someone have a schematic for what those CF adapters really do? Most > : that I've seen appear to have some "active" components (meaning in this > : context something other than a trace on a circuit board and sockets) > > They are just traces. There are no active components. Well, you are > supposed to have a bias cap between power and ground, but that's > literally it. Thats what I guessed... However, I was looking at http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm and it looks like they have a few more caps on the board, etc. etc. However, it DOES look like they are just bypass caps like you said. > : Or a source for *REALLY* cheap adapters? > > Define really cheak. There was a URL posted here a while ago with > them, but I can't find it now. The TARP ones work, but are pricy. We > make our own for about $25, but now you can get them from somewhere > (and I can't find it) for about that. Is that cheap enough? the above is about $20.00. I don't have one in my hand, but there is *something* I don't like about this one and I can't put my finger on it - maybe it's the mounting or something. I *REALLY* need to buy one of these and figure out what it is that I don't like so I can figure out if it is really critical. What would be really cool is one which just stuck directly in the IDE jack on the motherboard and the cf stuck in it. No cables and likely light enough to not need mounting. > : (I'd also be interested in sources for cheap CF cards). If flash were only as cheap as sdram... - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message