Re: [Devil-linux-develop] ATA flash?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>Dear mailing list,
>
Dear confused in Kalamazoo,

>I've been looking for something other than USB for a machine which won't
>boot from USB flash.  So I started browsing around for ATA flash.  I've
>never seen one before and don't really know anything about them.
>
You can't know everything. ;-)
The problem is, I could tell you, but then I'd have to shoot you....

>It appears from what I've seen on web sites that ATA flash has a PCMCIA
>interface???  I want to put this in a tower, not a laptop.  What am I
>missing here?  Do I need a PCMCIA PCI adapter in my tower or something?
>Are there other ATA flash cards that plug into a 40 pin IDE controller?
>  
>
So far I saw 3 types:
1) Card reader for the IDE bus, they seem to act as harddisks
2) Card reader for PCMCIA, I don't know how they behave, but I guess 
it's the same.
3) Card reader  for USB, ok everybody knows those. But there seem to be 
differences, at least the one I have doesn't work well under Linux.
    You need a special driver, which is always outdated. But I saw a 
couple of 6in1 readers (and those types), which seem to work fine (at 
least that's what they write).

I'm still hoping for a sponsor, who's paying the different readers and a 
big enough CF card, so we can include this functionality.

cya
  Heiko