Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 08:59:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: "Babkin, Serge" <sbabkin@dcn.att.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA disk cards Message-ID: <199807061559.IAA03530@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jul 1998 15:43:38 %2B0200." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980706154230.2620A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Babkin, Serge wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Andrzej Bialecki [SMTP:abial@nask.pl] > > > > > > Do we support them? I couldn't find any refrence to the cards other > > > than > > > ethernet/modem... > > > > > Are not they just simulating standard IDE disks ? > > Probably. But what with inserting and removing them... I guess removing > such a drive can panick your system. Yes. PCMCIA sucks. There are actually a couple of different ways of talking to PCCARD memory devices. The PAO people have driver support for some PCCARD ATA and CompactFlash devices. You should talk to Hosakawa-san (hosakawa@freebsd.org) and ask him why he hasn't committed these bits (he said he was going to quite a while back now...) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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