compact flash woes

[Adi Linden]

Hi Bob,

The PCMCIA-CF adapter seem to work just fine. I worked with one just
briefly and never had any problems.

TTYL,
Adi

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Bob Blick wrote:

> >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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