Re: fs reliability

[Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:29:04PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:22:07PM +0000, Pedro la Peu wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Nathan Binkert wrote: 
> > > yep.  There is the option of getting one of the flash devices that has an
> > > IDE interface.
> > Thanks Nathan, Henning.
> > I'm stuck with PCMCIA or USB (it's a laptop) and I understand that CF
> > adapters that present themselves as IDE are generally PCI based? Otherwise
> > this would be ideal.
> 
> To may understanding they are IDE -> compact flash.

Yes, there are.  I have one, in fact.  It's a smallish circuit board
with an IDE connector and a CF socket.  This particular model doesn't
support hot-plug, but it's quite nice if you're looking for some
solid-state storage with a simple interface.

If you're curious, I have a picture at
http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/ide-cf.jpg

I haven't bothered to see if I can make a PC boot off it yet.

> There are PCMCIA-CF adapters, though I dunno wether one can boot off them.

In theory the manufacturer could put a PCMCIA-ATA chip and an ATA-CF
adapter together to make a PCMCIA-CF adapter, but I believe that this is
not what is commonly sold as a PCMCIA-CF adapter.  Not having one of
these, I can't check.

-andy