On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:48:31 -0600 (MDT), Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>Well I for one would be interested in linuxbios loading from compact
>flash. I hate to think about all the IDE weirdness but maybe just using
>generic IDE it would work.
>
>Is IDE the only general purpose compact flash adapter you can get?
Most CFs only have 2 modes. Memory and what they call "True IDE".
True IDE is selected by a pin pulled low during power up. Basically
turns it into an ATA-2 device.
Many different types of adapters exist (IDE, PCMCIA, USB, Faked
Floppy) for dealing with CF but most all of them still treat the
device as an IDE device just across a different transport.
You could probally do something with memeory mode hooked to the ISA
bus but it would involve some glue logic.
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