---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:08:04 +1100 From: Bruce McFarling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: tomsrtbt: CompactFlash cards
I just wanted to drop a line to confirm that the laptops built-in save/resume must be the problem with accessing the flash card, since after turning off the save/resume, it has worked fine for several weeks. Steps to set it up: (1) To make space, I got rid of vi/elvis and replaced it with e3 (16K). (2) Copied the expanded pcmcia files from the add-ons. (3) To make space, edited down the main config file for pcmcia, getting rid of all the devices that I did not need to support. All that I require (since I do not have a PCMCIA modem) is the ide, and the basic ide card definition based on the function specification is all that is needed. That gets rids of quite a large number of lines. (4) Instead of fiddling with automated mounting, I just added mountpoints to the root filesystem and put scripts called "flash" and "loop" to mount the flash card and loop filesystem respectively. I have been too busy using it to double check, but it now does look like ide_info can simply be commented out of the ide config script, eliminating the missing binary problem. I am more a forth/awk programmer than a shell script programmer, and since it fits and lets me into 32M on the flash memory, I am not worrying about removing the ide_info binary.
