[SPARCbook] Re: Tadpole patched Solaris 7 for $350.

[Rainer Canavan]

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> 
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:30:20 -0400 (EDT), "Bob Krzaczek" wrote:
> 
> > I import photos quite a bit from digital cameras to my Solaris 2.6
> > Sparcbook by mounting the PCMCIA memory cards as "PC filesystems".
> > This works great; the camera formats the cards as a FAT disk and the
> > Sparcbook mounts them with no problem.
> 
> I'm totally unable to see a compact flash card (Sandisk 32Mb) on my 3GS
> running 2.6. The PCMCIA driver figures there is something there as the
> PCMCIA icon appears in the status LCD. I'm able to see PCMCIA hard discs
> (Callunacards) and a static RAM PCMCIA card (actually a REX). A
> laptop PC sees the compact flash card as just another windoze disc.
> 
> The pcmciad daemon does not create the devices for a compact flash like
> it does for SRAM or hard disc. According to the pcram(7D) manual page,
> different technology memory cards get different device entries (static
> RAM appears as /dev/dsk/c1t6d0sn - which does occur - and flash should
> appear as /dev/dsk/c1t5d0sn - which doesn't).
> 
> I can't figure what is going on here! I was thinking that perhaps I
> need to upgrade to Solaris 7, but from the sound of it 2.6 should be able
> to handle compact flash cards fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Chris.


AFAIK, compact flash cards behave the same as ATA disks like the Calluna,
and thus should use the same devices as the calluna cards.

Try modinfo to find out wether pcata or pcram is loaded when you insert
your cf adapter.


Rainer