I use them on either a pcmcia adapter (cheap but fast) or a USB dongle. Both show up as removable hard disks. Compact Flash is now available up to 1gb.
I use the IBM Microdrive (1gb) to do the same.....the Mini-ITX motherboards I'm using for my embedded linux project also allows a boot from compact flash.... In many cases, I like using flash more than the older "disk on chip" flash memory standard. I get more write cycles (well more than the old disk on chips) and a bit faster access without the special hardware necessary....any pcmcia type II slot can use an adapter, and any USB Master port can use the dongle. Flash comes in MANY flavors.....I use the MultiMediaCard (aka MMC) since one of my embedded linux platforms accomodate that flavor....but my Nikon camera uses Compact Flash....many other cameras use either smartmedia or memory stick.... Almost all of the different flavors of flash memory have been implemented using a subset of the ATA disk standard....linux I believe makes pretend the flash memory is a scsi driver and handles it that way. /brian chee University of Hawaii ICS Dept Advanced Network Computing Lab 1680 East West Road, POST rm 311 Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "TB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "luau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:26 AM Subject: [luau] compact flash > Hate to let my ignorance show, but what are people > using flash cards for besides camera stuff? Is there a > widget that makes them act like a hard drive or > something? I've seen those USB flash "disks" like > diskonkey, but we're talking about the plain flash > cards used in cameras, right? What sort of interface > is used? How much twiddling to make linux recognize > it? Could I use it with RH9 or Mandrake out of the > box? > > I googled on this, but don't understand the results. > Maybe a pointer to a faq or newsgroup? > Compactflash.org has a faq, but it doesn't say much > about use in a desktop environment. > > thanks, > TB > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
