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

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

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>So far I saw 3 types:
>>1) Card reader for the IDE bus, they seem to act as harddisks
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>What driver under Linux?  
>Do the drives show up as /dev/hdxx or /dev/sdxx ?
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I don't know, I would think they show up as /dev/hdxx .

>>2) Card reader for PCMCIA, I don't know how they behave, but I guess 
>>it's the same.
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>I don't like the thought of running the PCMCIA drivers on a server.
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I agree.

>>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.
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>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.
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>>    You need a special driver, which is always outdated.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).
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>The one I have uses the standard usb-storage driver, just like flash.
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That's the way it should be.

>>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.
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>If you can tell me what to buy, I can get my employer to spring for one
>for our proxy server.
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I can't tell you, but what I had in my mind are 2 things:
1) improve the USB boot stuff by using a 6in1 USB card reader and CF or 
other cards
2) use an IDE CF card reader for the OS and the configuration

cya
  Heiko