> I can confirm Mark's observation that the access speeds are slower - around 
> half the speed of the earlier Linux PIO driver, and a quarter the performance 
> of WinXP. Test CF card was a SanDisk UltraII as the target, with CB1410 
> (Yenta compatible TI clone) as the host CB32 controller.
> 
> The driver works, but appears to use PIO only (PIO 4 is reported, actual 
> performance is nearer PIO 0)
> Should the UDMA modes of the CF be usable?

Due to lack of documentation - not at the moment. Even the BSD folks
haven't managed to get that bit going. Pulling the card registers for the
device in Windows PIO4 would be most useful.

> Linux throughput of 'dd bs=100MD' writing to FAT16 (Dell 3GHz P4 x86 32bit, 
> kernel 2.6.23):
> 
>  3.1MB/sec for Linux PCMCIA     (legacy delkin_cb.c )
>  1.8MB/sec for Linux CardBus 32 (libata pata_ninja32.c)

Yes. I've not had time to go back and do more investigating.

Alan
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