From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 26 13:29:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24194 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:29:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neuron.hippocampus.net (neuron.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24144 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@hippocampus.net) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by neuron.hippocampus.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA22423; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:28:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:28:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > I'm using M-Systems PC-IDE flash drives. They look EXACTLY like an IDE > > drive to your system. All I did was newfs the drive and mount it. > > 8-O !!! > > That's very good news! I'll try to do it myself (tomorrow). :-) The biggest problem I had was that the IDE-FD18-20 is a 2.5" form factor, just like the drive in a notebook. I was connecting it to a a regular IDE bus and needed to get a 2.5" IDE to 3.5" connection kit. There is *no* mention that you need this in the documentation... I presume you have the DiskOnChip eval board? Bear in mind that the eval board is really intended for development of systems that use the DiskOnChip -- this requires a 30-pin DiskOnChip socket on the motherboard and BIOS support. Boards that support DiskOnChip generally make it appear like an IDE drive from within the BIOS... Generic systems requiring flash should really opt for something like M-Systems flash ATA cards or the IDE-FD13 or IDE-FD18 series... -marc -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message