Thomas Burgess wrote:
that's strange...it works for me.....at least the ones i've used have
worked with opensolaris freebsd and linux.
It just shows up as a normal sata drive. did you try more than one
type of compactflash card?
with the IDE unit, it was ALWAYS due to the card....most of them would
work SOMEWHAT but not all of them would boot...but i've had no
problems at all with the sata versions.
Same card works in an IDE adapter. The issues must have been fixed in
later builds, I'll try again.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com
<mailto:i...@ianshome.com>> wrote:
Adam Sherman wrote:
On 6-Aug-09, at 11:32 , Thomas Burgess wrote:
i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it
works on SOME machines. The biggest difference is that
the bios has to allow for usb booting. Most of todays
computers DO. Personally i like compact flash because it
is fairly easy to use as a cheap alternative to a hard
drive. I mirror the cf drives exactly like they are hard
drives so if one fails i just replace it. USB is a little
harder to do that with because they are just not as
consistent as compact flash. But honestly it should work
and many people do this.
This product looks really interesting:
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad2sahdcf.asp
Take care, the SATA model didn't work with Solaris. I have
haven't tried the current builds (I last tried with nv_101). The
IDE model works fine.
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Ian.
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