Re: mounting CF card in Linux

  What I did was to get a compactflash -> IDE adapter and chuck the card
in one of the "spare" linux machines at work.  At that point no special
drivers are needed and you can access it transparently as an IDE drive.  I
then used dd to copy the contents of the raw block device to a file, so I
can then restore it at a later date if I need to.

  I ended up using Slackware instead of debian just because I found it
easier to strip down the Slackware system while still retaining
functionality.

  Hope that helps.

     -Lars Friend  [email protected]




On 23 May 2003, Dietrich Pescoller wrote:

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> Dear Sirs,
> i recently got an OpenBrick,with a preinstalled Debian OS.
> Now i have to install and tune some thinks but i don't want to damage
> the CF installation. So i would like to make a copy. I have an pcmcia
> adaptor for my notebook i see the card but i can't mount it. I have
> enabled PCMCIA IDE support in my linux-kernel but when i insert the
> PCMCIA adapter i get this error in syslog:
> get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> Have someone an idea how i can get things work??
> Thank you
> Pescoller Dietrich
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