[ltp] PCMCIA Compact Flash Cards ??

[Eric Jorgensen]

On Mon, 13 May 2002 12:17:21 +0100 (BST)
"J.J.Green" <J.J.Green@sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> > I am wondering, well hoping actually that someone can lead me to where I
> > can find out how to make a PCMCIA compact flash card work with a Linux
> > laptop (Red Hat 7.2)
> 
> It should behave like a scsi disk -- just add a line like 
> 
>   /dev/sda1 /media/cf auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
> 
> to your fstab. Then try mounting /media/cf
> 
> You may need to use sdb, sdc, ... if you have other
> scsi devices attatched.
> 
> Good luck!

	GAH! No they shouldn't!

	USB card readers will behave like SCSI, but compact flash cards *plugged *into
*a *notebook are going to behave like an IDE hard drive. Because they are,
indeed, ATA devices. You can even directly address them as ATA w/o a pcmcia
controller. I'm serious, with nothing but passive logic you can plug them
directly into an ide controller. 

	Of course, in this golden age of ACPI, I can't make both the pcmcia slot and
the CF slot on my X21 work at the same time. 

- eric

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