Monday, September 10, 2007, 5:39:12 AM, you wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> CF should work. There are problems with some combinations of CF card and >> adapter as newer cards often do MWDMA or UDMA but the older adapters >> don't support this - a fact you can't autodetect. >> >> It's also important to understand CF cards have two modes. When plugged >> into an IDE cable via a convertor they act as if they were disk devices >> and you should be able to install onto them without problem. If you plug >> them into a PCMCIA card they appear as removable media and I suspect >> Anaconda won't consider them a viable install target. >> >> Alan >> > Thanks for the info regarding the newer cards and the Maximum Multi Word > DMA (MWDMA) mode and Ultra DMA mode newer CF devices may use. The > embedded devices have ide=nodma for SanDisk 64 MB cards and 128 MB cards > to prevent lockups. Newer CF cards fail to work in these devices. I'll > try removing the parameter to see if it allows newer and larger capacity > CF cards to work on the power PC devices. > Your point regarding Anaconda seeing the card as a removable device > sounds like it is causing no media to be detected. For USB hard disks > running the installer in expert mode allowed detection of USB connected > hard disks, maybe expert mode will allow detection of the CF adapter > mounted devices. The original poster mentioned something to the effect > that BIOS recognized the cards as 4 GB, a point I overlooked when > "reading" and overlooking the original post content. > Jim Now I didn't get it. Should it work or should it not? And what shall I do in order to make it work? Unfortunately I don't have that machine in front of me at the moment. But I hope I remember it right that the CF card was detected in UDMA mode. And I use a CF-IDE adapter, not a PCMCIA card or some other card reader. So it *should* work as a plain IDE HDD. But for some reason installer doesn't detect it... Thanks!
