Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 15:34:10 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.COM> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISA-bus flash "IDE disks" sought Message-ID: <199712060504.PAA01814@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Dec 1997 11:01:54 -0800." <199712051901.LAA21422@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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> If anyone knows of a good source for ISA-bus flash cards that look > like an IDE disk drive to software, I'd like to hear about it. Tried Industrial Computer Source? > I'm looking for a card that is: > > * ISA-bus based (as noted); > * ca 10 MB of flash; > * works as is with FreeBSD's wd driver and the BIOS (I'd > like to boot off it); > * cheap, reliable, fast, etc. Most flash cards are floppy-emulators, and usually at the BIOS, not register level. There are a couple of solid-state disk emulators with IDE interfaces, but these are pretty expensive, not to mention bulky. You might consider a PCMCIA adapter card and a PCCARD flash card (you'd need to integrate some of the PAO work to have this happen properly). Still not cheap, unfortunately. mikehome | help
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