From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:39:45 -0800 From: David Hinds To: Dan Malek Cc: Magnus Damm , dhinds@sourceforge.org, linuxppc-embedded , phr-pcmcia@nightsong.com, nknack@vikingcomponents.com Subject: Re: CompactFlash Viking problem Message-ID: <19991230103945.D30321@valinux.com> References: <386B5437.86F7449B@switchboard.ericsson.se> <386B855F.58D64F2B@netx4.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <386B855F.58D64F2B@netx4.com>; from Dan Malek on Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:16:31AM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:16:31AM -0500, Dan Malek wrote: > Magnus Damm wrote: > > > Another thing is that if I stick to access the ATA registers > > all CompactFlash cards (even the Viking) work. > > I haven't been very successful using Flash cards (PCMCIA or > Compact Flash) as pure memory devices. I have always ended up > using them as ATA disk drives. I don't know of any cards that can actually be used either way (either as a plain memory card, or as an ATA device). As far as I know, they are either one or the other. All PCMCIA ATA devices are supposed to support a memory mapped access mode, but that just puts the ATA registers in memory space instead of IO space. -- Dave ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/