Re: ATA flash card under 4-STABLE

Er, you're trying to boot from the compact flash? You're out of luck 
doing that from a PCCard slot. You'd have to have a desktop PC with an 
ATA/CF connector.

You can get it to mount etc. from a PCCard slot, but only after the 
system has booted.

Eric


Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
>>: Mar 22 23:11:02 keksz /kernel: pccard: card inserted, slot 0
>>: Mar 22 23:11:07 keksz pccardd[40]: Card "128MB"("       ") [5.0] [(null)] has function ID 4
>>: Mar 22 23:11:12 keksz pccardd[40]: driver allocation failed for (null)((null)): Device not configured
>>You likely need to create a custom entry for the card then, because the
>>default one doesn't work on your machine due to resource conflicts.
> 
> Could you please help me in this?
> This is my first encounter with PCMCIA related stuff, so I don't really
> know what should I do.
> I tried to place some ATA related entries from /etc/defaults/pccard.conf
> to /etc/pccard.conf with the card "128MB" "       " line, but got similar
> errors like the above.
> What else should I do?
> 
> Another question is if I can access the card with a good pccard.conf
> entry, how will it be possible to boot from that? The machine has a BIOS
> extension which is able to boot from the flash, but I don't understand how
> will this boot a FreeBSD system? Say, I can load the kernel, it executes,
> but right after that I can't access the flash for the root FS, because the
> kernel doesn't recognize the ATA flashcard as a valid ATA device. And
> pccardd comes into picture later...
> 
> Thanks a lot!
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