David J Taylor wrote:
"Uwe Klein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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There are these nice little USB Adapters available for small money
that provide a 40pin/44pin pata and an sata interface and come with
a "fitting" powersupply. ( forex : Digitus DA-70148-1 )
Very usefull for systems that have been reduced to USB only.
the SuSE install is rather refined these days.
uwe
Thanks, Uwe. Yes, that might have been another approach - I can imagine
a USB DVD drive being quite handy. I haven't seen that particular
device before - very neat! On checking, though, it only says it
supports HDD and not CD/DVD drives.
it does, at least with bios access ( for booting) or a linux kernel
( for the installed system later on ).
I have found that the only thing they balk on
are "flash disks" with IDE interface for (pc104) embedded systems.
Like: http://www.dpie.com/storage/chipdisk.html
Aside from needing a male/male 44pin adapter
slave access on that bus returns absurd information.
something that probably could be worked around with
some determination applied.
( My idea at the time was loading up a flash disk with
a complete system on my workbox and then just move it over
to the embedded system. I dumped the flash disk and replaced
them with a run of the mill CF Card ( that can actually behave
like an ide drive too). works well and happens to be a lot
cheaper too ;-)
uwe
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