I was actually looking for something that converted from SmartMedia to
IDE, and not CompactFlash to IDE. SM and CF are similar technologies,
but different standards.
Victor's earlier comment about needing either a BIOS to support the
FlashPath or a standard floppy drive to hold a kernel and driver for it
ring true here. BIOS support for this is very doubtful, especially for
the near future. And considering LRP is useful for recycling older
hardware, BIOS support for the FlashPath is a non-issue.
After second thought about this, I really can't see the use in a
standard floppy to load the kernel/driver and the FlashPath. I can't
imagine the need to have so many packages/daemons/files running on the
LRP itself that you'd need all this space. Especially since the goal
is to put the daemons BEHIND the firewall,and not ON it.
For this reason, I have ordered a nice, cheap 8MB Compact Flash and the
$20 CF-IDE converter as seen at http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm.
Thanks for the comments everyone.
Billy
--- "Bao C. Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is it any differences from the following?
>
> http://www.dansdata.com/cfide.htm
>
> Bao
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:11 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] FlashPath / 2.2.16 Kernel
> > Importance: High
> >
> >
> >
> > May be this is what you are looking for
> > It uses compact flash, and it seem to look as a hard drive!!!!
> >
> > http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fcfa.html
> >
> > There is an article on Linux Journal about using this
> > www.linuxjournal.com
> >
> > Please report on this if used!!
> >
> > Sergio Morilla
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Enviado el: Thursday, June 14, 2001 15:40
> > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Asunto: Re: [Leaf-user] FlashPath / 2.2.16 Kernel
> >
> > Question!
> > How do you boot off a smart media device - since the kernel is not
> yet
> > present and no modules extensions are available. It seems to
> > me that the
> > BIOS of the computer would have to support this device in
> > order to boot.
> > The page you pointed to says you are not allowed to write to
> > the device with
> > something like lilo - and presumably syslinux.
> >
> > I am sure you could boot off a standard 1.44 floppy and then
> > change and
> > mount the new media.
> >
> > Billy Jacobs wrote:
> >
> > > Hi--
> > >
> > > I was looking into moving from a diskette based Eiger
> > router to a solid
> > > state system. The compact flash solution seems like its the only
> > > "mainstream" method of doing this, going by what I have read in
> the
> > > various LRP docs.. I would like to use SmartMedia,
> > however, and have
> > > been looking into how this could be accomplished.
> > >
> > > I have found a device called a FlashPath, which is
> > basically an adapter
> > > which allows you to put the SmartMedia card into the diskette
> drive,
> > > and access it as /dev/fd0. SmartDisk has a beta release
> > linux driver
> > > for the FlashPath which will work with any 2.2 and later
> > based kernel.
> > > Info can be found via PDF file at:
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.smartdisk.com/Downloads/Software/LinuxInstallandUse
> rGuide.pdf
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has compiled this flashpath.o driver for
> LRP,
> > and if so, where I could find it. I assume this would be compiled
> as a
> > loadable module, therefore no kernel changes would be needed.
> >
> > Besides the few minor shortcomings of using this product (sleep
> mode on
> > disk, not RO filesystem), I think there could be some very good
> > benefits to using this device.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Billy
>
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