Luis + et al.-
>The PCMCIA flash card you have is unusable as a boot device.
>I had several of those also from Cisco routers but until now I had no
>success using them.
I did some research this morning and I have been able to reformat and
use one of these Intel cards as a regular drive (under Win98). Also the
good news is that the hardware write-protect switch *DOES* work. What I
did to get this bad boy working under win98 is as follows:
1)downloaded TrueFFS from http://www.pretec.com/ftp/TrueFFS-9x.zip (this
is probably an illegal and very old version, so you might want to try
going to http://www.m-sys.com to see if you can download a newer copy
there.)
2)followed the install directions provided
3)used the DOS TFORMAT utility, or use the windows shell integrated
Flash disk format command and format it...
I don't know much about trying to boot off of this device as I don't
have a PCMCIA to IDE adapter (do these exist? similar to CF->IDE except
for pin-outs), so I don't know if you can force the device into the IDE
compatible mode automatically on power up. But if you could then I think
this document might help us understand how to prepare it for booting
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/mtd/cvs/mtd/mtd-jffs-HOWTO.txt I
am still reading through this article but if anyone has any insights, I
would love to hear them! The main Linux-MTD page is located at:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
Thanks again,
Zack
P.S. I think that I may be confusing ATA-Flash with some other kind of
flash memory, but please help straighten me out if I am... This may be
obvious to some, but I am new to the flash memory, PCMCIA, all that
crap...
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