Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:00:16 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Additional pccard.conf.sample entry Message-ID: <200003141800.LAA45155@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:47:27 PST." <38CE7B2F.DF103964@quack.kfu.com> References: <38CE7B2F.DF103964@quack.kfu.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003132127430.61957-100000@medusa.kfu.com> <200003140604.XAA42131@harmony.village.org>
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In message <38CE7B2F.DF103964@quack.kfu.com> Nick Sayer writes: : Not only does it work, but so does my camera's CF cards! Yes. We're using them here at Timing Solutions for a more reliable rarely written disk than IDE crap-drives that we were able to get. Given the failure rates of the IDE drives in the invoronments that we were putting them into, the CF cards are much much cheaper. So, we needed to have a reliable CF solution that can sit on our desks and can be hot plugged. Since I had the pccard slots on the desk, it also made it easier to test pccard patches and fixes since it is on a full debugging test gig. I fixed the sio eject while busy problem because the village had a flakey ISDN connection for a while and I needed a quick way to dial into home, and said test gig was the easiest way to go. Pop my modem in, call home, fix the line, pop it out. : For the first time ever, I believe an unpatched FreeBSD -RELEASE has : operated every PCCard peripheral I own! This is a proud moment. I : even believe that I would be able to do an install on a brand new : laptop with nothing but two floppies and an FA410TX, which is also : miraculous for a -RELEASE, especially one ending in a 0! That's the one weak point in the release right now. I didn't have time to fix the pccard irq selection mechanism at boot. Also, I didn't have time to do extensive testing of the install process. Some laptops will have problems with the install from pccard device :-(. : If no one else says it, I want to thank everyone involved for this : achievement. You are welcome. I couldn't have done what I did without the support of everyone who sent me fixes/patches/etc, nor w/o the support of the helpful Japanese people on the -nomads mailing list. There are about 20 messages in my "can't do it during the freeze" queue that I need to work through which originated from them. Also, there's e very experimental cardbus implementation floating around too from the nomads. Better in some ways than NetBSD's, not so good in some ways and still somewhat green. It shows enough promise that I think that I'll be giving it a tough look over the next few weeks in my spare time. yamamoto-san has done some good work here while I was busy trying to mop up the -current support for pccard for the release. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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