I am using the adaptor from SanDisk and a CompactFlash 32 on my Red Hat 6.1 PC. I had some problem because I forgot to drop the jumper from the adaptor, so there was two IDE masters on the same connector. Now it works, I formatted it as minix fx.
Now I'm trying to boot from the flash, but until now I only received kernel panic. When I succeed I write an HOWTO. Does anybody has some experience on booting from CompactFlash?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Stickley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 4:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Anyone using Compact Flash cards ?
>
>
> Hello,
> I just got an IDE adaptor for compact flash cards with a few different
> compact flash cards (Sandisk 32MB and PQI 32MB).
>
> Is there a special driver needed to make these work with
> Linux 2.2.12 ?
>
> When I try to fdisk the device:
> fdisk /dev/hdb
>
> I get the error message
> hdb: drive cmd: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hdb: drive cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatus Error }
>
> It seems like these are slower than the IDE driver expects or
> something like that maybe...
>
> I can Fdisk the device, then when I format it as ext2, the partition
> table gets trashed. My BIOS settings are set to AUTO detect and
> the drive information is read when I reboot. However, If I change
> these settings and play with the LBA / BLOCK mode / CHS stuff
> - setting
> these to the values detected by the BIOS, *sometimes* it just hangs
> the system.
>
> Any clues on what to do next ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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