Greetings--
My contact at WinSystems tells me that Sandisk has just about
completely broken the IDE interface and that's why you and I can't get
our Sandisks to have a happy master/slave relationship under any
circumstances.
My strategy for propagating installations is to use a boot/root
disk
combination that supports ethernet, and then I install my own
distribution from another server. I'd rather just cat /dev/hda >
/dev/hdb but /dev/hdb is invisible, as you say.
There are other CF vendors; my understanding is that at least
some of
them will support master/slave configurations. Anybody have any
experience with other brands of CF?
Cecil Ogg
ralph stickley wrote:
>
> 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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