Brian Hechinger wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:17:45PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > >> Has anyone here had any luck using a CF to SATA adapter? >> >> I've just tried an Addonics ADSACFW CF to SATA adaptor with an 8GB card that >> I wanted to use for a boot pool and even though the BIOS reports the disk, >> Solaris B95 (or the installer) doesn't see it. >> > > I tried this a while back with an IDE to CF adapter. Real nice looking one > too. > > It would constantly cause OpenBSD to panic. > > I would recommend against using this, unless you get real lucky. If you want > flash to boot from, buy one of the ones that is specifically made for it (not > CF, but industrial grade flash meant to be a HDD). Those things work a LOT > better. I can look up the details of the ones my friend uses if you'd like. > > I was looking to run some tests with a CF boot drive before we get an X4540, which has a CF slot. The installer did see the attached USB sticks...
Any further information welcome. Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
