I used in a project a (SanDisk) Pc Card ATA flash disk in a PCMCIA socket
where we reported the IDE signals from the PC IDE Controller. With this
configuration this type of media is like a normal IDE magnetic disk and so
can be supported by any standard driver. This because this kind of cards has
internally a microcontroller which implements the IDE/ATA protocol although
the memory technology is flash.
Other kinds of flash disks have directly the IDE interface and so you can
substitute directly with them a normal IDE magnetic disk without changing
the software drivers.
As I told I tried the SanDisk flash disk and I never had problems, but with
other supplier I had boot problems.
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> Sent: giovedì 6 maggio 1999 18.53
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [rtl] ATA and SSFDC or "Smart Media"
>
> Has anyone worked with "Smart Media" or SSFDC (Solid State Floppy Device
> Chip
> ?)
>
> These are the credit card shaped memory devices used in newer cell phones
> and
> digital cameras. A co-worker of mine is looking at using these cards in
> an
> embedded design and needs to know how to interface to these cards. I
> assume
> from some initial investigation they support the ATA standard protocal
> (which
> linux supports)... Is this true? Are there any catches?
>
>
> Thanks
> Kirk Smith
> Micro Systems Engineering
>
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