compact flash woes

[Bob Blick]

>I have used the CF-IDE adapter quite successfully for installing syslinux
>on a DOS formatted CF card. However, formatting a CF using the CF-IDE
>adapter using linux fdisk seems to have its problems.
>
>The trouble is very specific to using fdisk and the CF-IDE adapter. Once
>the partitions are done I have never had a problem with the CF-IDE
>adapter. I.e. running mke2fs, mkdosfs, lilo, syslinux, etc all works fine.

Hi Adi,

How about doing development on a laptop and using a PCMCIA-CF adapter, does
fdisk work OK in that configuration?

Cheers,

Bob Blick
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