[SPARCbook] PCMCIA Compact Flash

Rainer Canavan rainer at canavan.de
Wed Oct 18 17:23:32 CDT 2000


> 
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:58:23 +0200 (MET DST), Rainer Canavan wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK, compact flash cards behave the same as ATA disks like the Calluna,
> > and thus should use the same devices as the calluna cards.


>From the pcata man page:
 
     The  PCMCIA ATA card device driver supports PCMCIA ATA  disk
     and flash cards that follow the following standards:

That's what you have there. SRAM cards are something completely different.
There's some info about the differences between SRAM, "SanDisk" (yes,
they renamed themselves) and intel-style flash cards at
http://www.bsn.com/Support/FAQS/pcmcia.html
and it has the benefit of beeing about solaris. Although it's a bit dated,
it's definitively worth reading

> Devices created when a SRAM PCMCIA is inserted:
> 
> /dev/dsk/c1t6d0s2
> /dev/rdsk/c1t6d0s2
> 
> Which point to:
> 
[...]



Rainer






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