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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Hale Landis wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:37:27 -0800 (PST), Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >OEMs are starting to put these on consumer products in master/slave pairs.
> >Is there a way to enforce host reporting rules of the device clase?
> >Since native laptop pcmcia->cfa is single ended mode, but w/ the security
> >aspect of SDA/CFA on booting devices is almost insane.
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> A CF device has that special CFA value in ID word 0 (848AH). What
> more do you need to identify a CF device? Are you talking to real CF
> devices -OR- to one of those SmartMedia (or other such device) to CF
> adapter things (those things that T13 added new command for a few
> months ago?). These SM-to-ATA adapter things are probably making up
> the ID data on the fly so you knows what they report. If someone does
> know they probably can't talk about it because it is all "secret".
Hale you missed the point.
mainboard host
primary channel
Master(40pin adapter to CFA)
Slave(40pin adapter to CFA)
secondary channel
Master(40pin adapter to CFA)
Slave(40pin adapter to CFA)
There are people out there putting a pair of CFA_2_ATA devices on a
mainboard.
--andre
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