Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-09-05 Thread Nick Holland
Don Jackson wrote: I have gotten past all the problems I discussed in my original message to this list. On the AMD/Tyan motherboard with the Addonics CF to SATA converter, what I did was purchase a Lexar Professional UDMA 300X CF card. This card is faster, and provides the UDMA interface

Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-09-03 Thread Don Jackson
I have gotten past all the problems I discussed in my original message to this list. On the AMD/Tyan motherboard with the Addonics CF to SATA converter, what I did was purchase a Lexar Professional UDMA 300X CF card. This card is faster, and provides the UDMA interface that the motherboard and

How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-07-30 Thread Don Jackson
I have a Tyan S2881 Thunder K8SR motherboard (Opteron), and wd0 is a SATA hard disk (Western Digital), but I want to boot and run off a flash card. I have an Addonics SATA to CF adaptor, Model ADSACF) http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adsacf.asp The OpenBSD 4.1 installer

Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-07-30 Thread Nick Holland
First of all, a fine point of English: How to should be followed by an explanation of how to do something, not a question, 'specially if not followed by a question mark. The phrase you are probably looking for is how do I . . . ?. (yes, strange thing for me, who has mangled English in many a

Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-07-30 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: ... 2) I see the thing is picking up as a DMA mode 2 device. I've not seen that with the CF devices and adapters I've used...might want to try disabling the DMA on that device. man 4 wd 3) Try another OS on your adapter/MoBo combo. You may find your CF adapter and CF