Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:57:49 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM PC110 with CompactFlash Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812282350250.2125-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <3687F513.36B9DCD0@intercom.com>
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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Jason J. Horton wrote: > Has anyone had any luck getting a PC110 running FreeBSD from > the Compact Flash slot? Would anyone recommend a brand of > flash chip? Well, I hope someone will speak up, because I can offer only some general remarks, having no on-hands experience with CompactFlash: * if possible, use IDE flash - it's easiest to support on various OS-es. * then, try to use M-Systems' DiskOnChip - there is a driver for it. * if not, all devices which are accessible via BIOS INT13h will work as long as you only want to boot from them - once you start the kernel, they are inaccessible. Once upon a time some people (msmith) were trying to write a disk driver using BIOS INT13h and VM86, and failed (AFAIK they still have nightmares from that experience... ;-) * and finally, I have no idea what is the interface between the CompactFlash and the rest of the h/w and s/w. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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