Neal Pollack wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: >> Brian Hechinger wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:17:45PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone here had any luck using a CF to SATA adapter? >>>> >>>> I've just tried an Addonics ADSACFW CF to SATA adaptor with an 8GB >>>> card that I wanted to use for a boot pool and even though the BIOS >>>> reports the disk, Solaris B95 (or the installer) doesn't see it. >>>> >> I was looking to run some tests with a CF boot drive before we get an >> X4540, which has a CF slot. The installer did see the attached USB >> sticks... > > My team does some of the testing inside Sun for the CF boot devices. > We've used a number of IDE attaced CF adapters, such as; > http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp > and also some random models from www.frys.com. > We also test the CF boot feature on various Sun rack servers and blades > that use a CF socket. > > I have not tested the SATA adapters but would not expect issues. > I'd like to know if you find issues. > Well the biggest was the device not being recognised!
The BIOS sees it and reports it as a SanDisk SDCFX3-008G whit I assume is the label from the card. The board is an nForce 4 Asus A8N-E. Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
