[Peeweelinux] Re: compact flash woes

[Steven Merrifield]

Hi,

I have no experience with CF yet, but I want to get started. Are the
problems
with the CF-IDE adapters due to people hot-swapping them? What if I *only*
insert or remove the CF when the power is off? Am I still likely to have
problems? Is this what others have done, or are you inserting/removing when 
the power is applied?

Many thanks,
steve


>Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:48:02 -0500 (CDT) 

>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. 
>
>I have not come across any CF-IDE adapters that are hotswap yet.