Dr. Miro,
I don't think the CF cards will work as slaves - I use them as master on the Secondary
IDE channel.
I never got one to work as a slave but someone else may have....
I've switched over a PCMCIA adaptor which allows "dynamic" hard drive detection ( you
don't have to reboot to see the CF card). Also, I've had some luck with the Sandisk
Imagemate USB - CF card reader - acts as a dynamic SCSI drive.
"Dr Jaime V. Miro" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a Sandisk 32Mb. I've been trying to stick on it an embedded flavour of
>linux which I've got working from a HD partition. I've seen quite a few pointers in
>this mailing list about doing that, however, they ALL seem to assume that the CF is
>detected by the BIOS, whereas mine does not seem to, UNLESS is the master IDE, if it
>is the slave, I just can't see it, neither the BIOS, nor Linux. Which is not the
>ideal situation, because what I want to transfer is on my current master HD.
>
> Even booting from rescue disks get me to the same point: can't see the CF as hdb
>(slave), hence I can't fdisk the device or do anything on it.
>
> I've tried various PC's with different BIOS, and varios kernels too, with the same
>result.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jaime
>
> P.S. Additional note in case is important: I actually managed to install a small
>version of Linux in the CF I am working on a few months back. I can't remember how I
>did it, but it does work and it boots if it is the master device. What I am doing now
>is trying to intall another smaller version of Linux on it, but I'm stuck with the
>above problem.
>
BTW, that was the point of develloping our PeeWee Linux - the operations required to
build an embedded linux version are scripted and easily repeated...
http://www.peeweelinux.com
Good Luck,
Ralph Stickley
Datalux, Corp.
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