Re: OpenBrick

[David Rio <is04607@salleURL.edu>]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Joseph W. Shaw II wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Saad Kadhi wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Anyone tried to run OpenBSD on an OpenBrick box (http://www.openbrick.org) ? I'd
> > like to buy one if it can run OpenBSD.
>
> It runs FreeBSD, which only support i386 platforms last I checked, so I
> would assume OpenBSD would work on it.  Looking at the docs
> (http://www.openbrick.org/Members/jp/manual.pdf), it's using a i386
> compatible National Semiconductor GX1-300B 300Mhz processor, and checking
> OpenBSD.org's i386 platform page, the "NS Geode GX1" processor is listed
> as supported.  The RealTek 8139C ethernet adapter should be supported with
> the rl driver.  The AC97 audio controller is supported via the auich
> driver.  The PCMCIA interface is supported, as is the compact flash
> interface.  Looks to me like it should work on paper.  The only way to
> know for sure is to try it.

I would like to make a question regarding to compact flash interface.  If
you have a compact flash and you buy a little PCMCIA adaptor, can you
use your compactflash as "hard disk". Is this supported on openbsd? I mean
has anyone tried this compactFlash-PCMCIA adaptor with openbsd? Can you
mount your compactflash as any other block device?