[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/23/2005 10:18:03 AM:
> Follow up on this problem. I have progress of a sort. I attached my
> cardreader to yet another computer. The cardreader was attached as
> secondary master. This computer had a more modern BIOS which allowed
> booting from a LS/ZIP drive. And YES,YES,YES I saw the Bering logo. The
> kernel booted but then the IDE driver started to muck things up again.
That means you're past the BIOS stage...
> It did find the card reader at hdc but then it decided that it was a
> floppy.
>
> hdc: IOMEGAIDE CARD READER, ATAPI cdrom or floppy?, assuming FLOPPY drive
Interesting.
This won't help much for your current situation, but here's what I'd
recommend to everyone trying this:
http://www.globalamericaninc.com/other/dom.php
The term you're looking for is Disk on Module. I buy 32MB DOM's (which are
30MB bigger than they need to be) for $35. It's far cheaper than buying a
piece of CF and a separate IDE adapter. They make just about any size you
want. And they work perfectly: the computer sees a 32MB hard drive.
I use those in concert with a VIA EDEN MiniITX motherboard. Zero moving
parts: no CPU fan, not PS fan, no rotating storage. It's like a (somewhat
expensive) Linksys, but much more powerful: expandable to GB's of flash
and 512MB of RAM. I use it for a number of applications, most of them
LEAF-based.
Tim Massey
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