Re: booting from CompactFlash Cards
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:35:44AM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: Where do you buy your CF cards that are bootable, and the IDE adapters? I would like to do the same thing and would really appreciate it if you would send me over your vendor information. Part numbers would be nice if you have them handy, too! I bought CF to IDE adapters from ACS (http://www.acscontrol.com). $20 each, you can order online. The CF cards I use are no-name 128 MB cards bought from a local retailer. I believe there's nothing special about them, except they were the cheapest around :) As stated on ACS website, if your application works with IDE drives, it will work with a CF card and our CF to IDE adapter. -- Nicolas BOUGUES Axialys Interactive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting from CompactFlash Cards
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:29:29PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello I plan to replace a Cisco by a Linux router and would like to use a compact flash card instead of a hard drive to minimize hardware outages. Can anybody recommend me a CompactFlash solution that allowes booting? As far as I learned those cards have build-in IDE adapters and are connected to the PC via a simple connector-adapter to a 40pin IDE cable. Sadly at least Verbatim do not think that their cards are able to present a correct master boot record to the BIOS although I can see no difference between requesting sector 0 on track 0 (MBR) and any other position. We use no name CF cards with ACS CF-IDE adapters (about $20 each), and it works fairly well, just like a normal IDE drive. The only thing is that the CF are PIO only, and thus are quite slow (about 1 Mb/sec), and use a lot of CPU bandwidth, just like any PIO drive. But it's fun and amazing :) -- Nicolas BOUGUES Axialys Interactive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
booting from CompactFlash Cards
Hello I plan to replace a Cisco by a Linux router and would like to use a compact flash card instead of a hard drive to minimize hardware outages. Can anybody recommend me a CompactFlash solution that allowes booting? As far as I learned those cards have build-in IDE adapters and are connected to the PC via a simple connector-adapter to a 40pin IDE cable. Sadly at least Verbatim do not think that their cards are able to present a correct master boot record to the BIOS although I can see no difference between requesting sector 0 on track 0 (MBR) and any other position. thanks, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
