Re: 2.4 series IDE troubles

From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 14:02:53 EST


On 21 Feb 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> > And without that information there is no way to fix it. At a first guess
> > > you've stuck an IDE master and a flash slave via an adapter on the same
> > > cable.
> >
> > Didn't he say it worked in 2.2? If that's true then perhaps it should in
> > 2.4 and later.
>
> Did I say otherwise ? But if he isnt using 2.4.21pre-ac then it wont

Will this not migrate into mainline? Or is there some objection to it?

>
> > I've given up a bought a USB flash adaptor, my ISA bus PCMCIA adaptor
> > hasn't worked for flash since about 2.4.16 or so. Not a complaint, but
> > there may be issues in that support, I just didn't have time to fight with
> > the problem.
>
> With 2.4.21pre (the firs 2.4 IDE I hacked on seriously) pcmcia flash works on
> my test setups, and gets used fairly hard for digital cameras

I suppose I should stick a media in again and try 2.4.21-pre4-ac5 and
2.5.61-ac1, which are what I have moderately working in other ways. The
digital camera is exactly what drive my use.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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