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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> David Moberg wrote:
> > You need the ide_cs module.
>
> You also need to add "device" and "card"
> specifications to /etc/pcmcia/config
>
> ---------------------------
> device "ide_cs"
> class "ide" module "ide_cs"
> ---------------------------
> That configs ide_cs as a possible device.
>
> --------------------------------
> card "ACE DoubleFlash 20MB"
> version "IBM", "IBM17JSSFP20"
> bind "ide_cs"
>
> card "Simple Tech Compact Flash"
> version "STI Flash"
> bind "ide_cs"
> --------------------------------
> Those (examples) tell cardmgr to load ide_cs when it
> reads those ID strings from inserted cards.  You will
> need to substitue the ID string from your actual card
> -OR- use the manfid values from your card -OR- put in
> a function line (instead of version or manfid).

I got it working as follows.

Copied ide_cs.o to /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc in BL3 (via a floppy disk form 
a computer with a CD-ROM drive as I don't want to learn to use an external 
backpack parport CD-ROM drive yet).

Added insmod ide_cs.o to the /etc/pcmcia/start file.

Ran start and was predictably told that the card was not identified.

Did some web research and discovered you can type cardmgr (without the -o) 
for information on this card.

cardmgr:  product info "Sundisk", "SDP", "5/3 0.6"
        manfid: 0x0045, 0x0401   function:  4 (fixed disk)

I added to /etc/pcmcia/config

device "ide_cs"
class "ide"  module "ide_cs"

I then added:
card "Sundisk"
function 4 (fixed disk)
bind "ide_cs"

cardmgr -o complained about the line with 'fixed disk' so I tried removing 
that string but got some error message about the socket being busy.

I replaced the function line with
manfid 0x0045, 0x0401

got the same error message so I rebooted and that fixed something

(I tried later with function 4 instead of the manfid line and it worked).

so as middle line use:
function 4      or    manfid 0x0045, 0x0401 (for your particular card)

Rebooting got me info in dmesg that I now have an hdc, which is ide1.
(The laptop computer has one hard drive ide0, and now this compact flash 
memory in the PCMCIA adaptor as ide1)


I got the error message
executing:  ./ide start hdc
        +sh ./ide:  not found

I was able to mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt and it contained the photos.
I unmounted /mnt and tried to automate the process with cardmgr.

It apparently wants a file named start in ./ide so I made it one:
mount /dev/hdc1 /flash
chmod +x start

mkdir /flash  - the directory I will mount my flash memory to.

I ran start and it mounted my flash drive automatically this time
and I can cd /flash and there I find ./dcim with the subdirectory 
containing the photos.

If Xvesa were working on this computer in more than 4 colors I could view 
the photos with it.  I need to put on zgv from SW4.0.


Now I rebooted to try again and the 'start' command in ./ide still is not 
working:

executing  ./ide start hdc
+sh ./ide: permission denied   (instead of 'not found')

I checked and start is +x.

This is not important as I can easily mount /flash manually, but how do I 
fix it?

Should function 4 work for all PCMCIA flash card adaptors?
Would the user still have to modify the first line to match the card name?