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

I copied over the parts related to this CF adaptor to the BL2 
/etc/pcmcia/config file in a desktop computer that I got working with two 
PCMCIA ethernet cards in a PCMCIA socket with ISA PCMCIA controller card.

The CF adaptor is recognized properly in a laptop computer as hdc (though 
there is only one hard drive, hdb) and ide1 (secondary IDE controller).

The desktop computer has:
hda - ide hard drive
hdb - ide hard drive   - ide0

hcd  and hdd - cd-rom and ide zip drives - ide1

Cardmgr is having problems with the pcmcia ide CF card (uses ide_cs 
module).

hde:  Micron ... (the card name)
hdf  probing, no response
(It varied the probe numbers and tried a few more times).
hde:  Micron 3MB irq3
        hde:  hde1
        ide2

This is not actually on an ide controller but cardmgr seems to think it is 
on a tertiary controller.  But it finds it as hde (secondary controller 
master) then also looks for hdf (can't find anything there).  The zip 
drive drivers were not loaded - should they be?  (Atapi floppy kernel 
needed, for internal IDE drive).  Zip I think is hdd.

Can I edit the config file somehow to make this PCMCIA drive work with CF 
cards in our desktop adaptor?

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I found cardctl in BL2 pcmcia.tgz but not in BL3.  I tried cardctl eject 
and insert (with a working ethernet card) and tried to rmmod and insmod 
the ethernet modules again but got errors from cardmgr.  Steven said to 
use cardctl to 'hot-swap' - how?

We can at least use the PCMCIA ethernet card now to transfer BL2 from this 
computer with the ISA PCMCIA controller to our laptop computers.  That 
part works (it is not IDE, not so confusing to cardmgr).

Still hoping someone can get the static Abiword working with BL2 and 
explain to me what I am doing wrong.

Netpbm did a lovely job of making 2x2" passport photos (jpegtopnm, pamcut 
to 600x600 pixels, combine six photos into 3 across and two down using 
pnmcat, pnmtojpeg) but the photo printer at K-Mart lopped off a margin 
all the way around so they are no longer square.  I may have to add a bit 
of white around the edge for it to lop off if a photo store can't do 
better.  Netpbm does not work at all on the computer with onboard AGP and 
shared RAM (which won't boot linux if I switch back to PCI and forget to 
change RAM from 4 to 2MB).  Floating point exception.  This might be what 
causes pictview not to work under dosemu on that computer.

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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?
>
>
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