Subject: Re: CompactFLASH support?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/30/1998 12:15:26
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 11:00:30AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > I am involved in a project which uses CompactFLASH memory cards. These
> > How hard would it be to add support for these cards in NetBSD?
>
> I don't know, but don't the sharks have such things?
> (see http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/iag/info/romcard.html or something)
That connector looks more like a PCMCIA connector to me. There are at least
two types of PCMCIA FLASH cards: plain memory cards (which look just like a
big FLASH ROM chip to the host) and IDE compatible cards (which have an
internal controller chip that looks like a regular IDE disk to the host).
AFAIK, Compact FLASH cards are all IDE type cards.
> Would be cool to have some support for these beasts... :)
Yeah.. especially with laptops / single board PC's..
-jm