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

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> So far I saw 3 types:
> 1) Card reader for the IDE bus, they seem to act as harddisks

What driver under Linux?  
Do the drives show up as /dev/hdxx or /dev/sdxx ?

> 2) Card reader for PCMCIA, I don't know how they behave, but I guess 
> it's the same.

I don't like the thought of running the PCMCIA drivers on a server.

> 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.

Yes, I have one of those to read smartmedia card (digital camera).
The one I has seems to work exactly like a USB flash drive.

>     You need a special driver, which is always outdated.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).

The one I have uses the standard usb-storage driver, just like flash.

> 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.

If you can tell me what to buy, I can get my employer to spring for one
for our proxy server.

 - BS