Re: [Elphel-support] CFAST cards with SATA adapter compatible

2012-02-04 Thread Sebastian Pichelhofer
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 21:24, Andrey Filippov wrote: > Sebastian, > > Let's hope that the new standard cards support DMA. Standard itself is not > sufficient to find out if these cards will or will not work - as I described > or prior experience, manufacturers of one of the most popular CF card >

Re: [Elphel-support] CFAST cards with SATA adapter compatible

2012-02-04 Thread Andrey Filippov
Sebastian, Let's hope that the new standard cards support DMA. Standard itself is not sufficient to find out if these cards will or will not work - as I described or prior experience, manufacturers of one of the most popular CF card controllers made it incorrectly respond about the capabilities. S

Re: [Elphel-support] CFAST cards with SATA adapter compatible

2012-02-04 Thread Sebastian Pichelhofer
Thanks for the details, but CFAST is a completely new standard that has little in common with CF cards and also requires totally different adapters. Regarding the UDMA work around hints: Could you help me collect all information together we currently have about it (info from axis developer, etc.)

[Elphel-support] CFAST cards with SATA adapter compatible

2012-02-04 Thread Andrey Filippov
Sebastian, I just replied Carlos and wrote that the only problem with SATA devices was with the old SSD made actually from the CF cards. Adapter is transparent, so if the CF card does not work in the camera directly, it will not work with the adapter. For slow applications it is possible to disa

Re: [Elphel-support] the problems from the hdd (in short)

2012-02-04 Thread Andrey Filippov
Carlos, >From you photos it does not look that any pins are broken, no pads from the PCB are peeled off, so any computer/electronics repair shop (or hobbyist with the fine parts soldering skills) can easily put the connector back. SATA external disk - we did not have problems with any, except the

Re: [Elphel-support] the problems from the hdd (in short)

2012-02-04 Thread Oleg
Carlos, > So you are saying its posible to reuse the black conector soldering > back to the 10369? wouldn't it be better to find a new black piece > (from the diagram i supose its the one called J6 CF/HDD adapter) i > mean because of the broken pins. > The pins looked fine on your P1110893-50q.j

[Elphel-support] CFAST cards with SATA adapter compatible

2012-02-04 Thread Sebastian Pichelhofer
Do you think that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFast#CFast CFast Cards could work with this adapter: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/b003r4ifmg/geizhals1-21/ref=nosim?m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF connected to the Elphel camera over SATA. To my understanding the card itself acts like a drive and needs no

Re: [Elphel-support] the problems from the hdd (in short)

2012-02-04 Thread Carlos Padial
hi oleg Ok, i have removed the black piece from the 103692, now i see it like in the wiki So you are saying its posible to reuse the black conector soldering back to the 10369? wouldn't it be better to find a new black piece (from the diagram i supose its the one called J6 CF/HDD adapter) i mean