PCMCIA CF Card

[Austin Godber]

Yeah, these things work fairly well in a Linux machine (I am not sure
about that specific model, but I think that most of them are simply
treated like a PCMCIA IDE device (as stated)).  Linux, dd, and a hex
editor are very handy for retrieving filesystems "lost" by other less
friendly operating systems.  Granted it is a painful process.

-Austin

Bob George wrote:
> 
> "Eric Katherman" <vaiod@berloy.com> wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody know how (and if) I can get one of those PCMCIA Compact
> > Flash cards to work /w Linux.  I am using SuSE 8.0 PRO on a Gateway
> Solo
> > 2550 and the PCMCIA card is a BSA card.  Any pointers would be great!
> 
> As a matter of fact, I picked one up this afternoon. I'm running Debian
> 2.2 (unstable) with PCMCIA support working on Dell laptops. When I plug
> the card in, I get a message indicating it's been recognized by the
> PCMCIA subsystem. The message includes a reference to the device
> (/dev/hdi with a reference to IDE device 4 IIRC -- I'm not able to bring
> it up at the moment). Specifics on your system may vary.
> 
> After that:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdi1 /mnt/flash
> 
> (after mkdir /mnt/flash natch) works just fine. They come preformated
> with FAT, but cfdisk seems to have seen it just fine as /dev/hdi.
> 
> I'm using it to transfer data to/from logging probes I'm using at a
> client site with no outside network connectivity. Very slick and easy to
> use. I'm using the $20 Apacer adapter and budget $40 BSA 128MB CF card
> from Fry's... and despite all that, it STILL works! :)
> 
> - Bob
> 
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