32MB SanDisk and Siemens OEM Reader Oppurtunity

[RJ Scarbeary]

I apologize, these babies run off the IDE bus on a normal ribbon cable and
require a floppy drive type power connector.
Hello all!

I have an opurtunity to pickup brand new Siemens OEM Compact Flash card readers
including 1, 32MB SanDisk
if anyone is interested please respond because I am packing up and moving to
Phoenix from Germany starting Friday!

I already have one of these babies for my Audrey project and it works great,
good quality, works in Linux of course! Also works on other OS. Runs from an
IDE cable and floppy drive type power plug. The only drawback is they are just
on
plain circuit boards it is up to the creative mind to decide how to mount them.

I am not going to post a price on the board. If people are interested just drop
me an email and how many you need and I will shoot you a price and give you
instructions on how to pay.

support@generationxcomputing.com

(under $30.00$ depending how many people want them)

I have 5 left and can get maybe 10 more.



Havent had time to do much of anything with Audrey yet other than hunt down
these CF Readers, when I get to AZ I will hook up and get the shell update.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Rutledge" <e_cloud@yahoo.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: 32MB SanDisk and Siemens OEM Reader Oppurtunity


| On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:42:02PM +0200, RJ Scarbeary wrote:
| > I already have one of these babies for my Audrey project and it works great,
|
| You're into Audreys too huh?  What have you done so far?
|
| So far I haven't done much; have tried playing MP3s, which mostly sucks
| (when streaming, there are dropouts; and there is always some noise on
| the line-out) but just having a touchscreen web browser is quite useful.
| I have PHP scripts to control my lights, stream voicemail messages, and a
| few other odds and ends.
|
| I want to write a Photon caller ID GUI which will wake up the Audrey and
| show a popup dialog.  Gotta build up a spare PC for QNX development
| first.
|
| I didn't have the guts to re-flash it but after getting the shell
| working, being able to copy new programs on there is mostly good enough.
| And maybe someday I'll be able to NFS-mount more stuff too.
|
| I would like to have Java support.
|
| > good quality, works in Linux of course! Also works on other OS. Runs from a
| > floppy cable and floppy power wires. The only draw back is they are just on
|
| That seems strange; it must require special drivers, if it's on the
| floppy connector? IDE is very direct, because IDE and PCMCIA (and
| consequently CF) are pretty much the same signalling standard (just
| different pin arrangement). I found an adapter board online which plugs
| directly onto a motherboard IDE header, and accepts a CF card.  I like
| those for embedded stuff.
|
| After finding the Audrey was such a lousy audio device, I wanted to build
| a very quiet machine whose main purpose would be to run NAS or esd or
| something like that, in the bedroom.  I can use an Audrey to run a web
| GUI to select files, and the web server will decode the MP3 and stream
| audio to the audio server.  The CF will be great for that purpose.  I had
| it booting Linux from the card.  Also my CNC controller machine runs DOS
| from a CF card.  In that application it's just like a hard drive (small
| is OK, and DOS isn't constantly writing to the root filesystem so no need
| to play games with ramdisks).  So far with Linux, it seems to me your
| root fs should be a ramdisk if you're using FLASH instead of a hard
| drive, because when you mount drives it has to write to /etc/mtab; and
| utmp gets written to a lot; there are log files; etc.  Anybody know
| workarounds for this stuff so Linux can run on a read-only fs?
|
| Ah here's where I got those adapters, I think:
|
| http://www.pcengines.com/testordr.htm
|
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