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

The error message when this card did not work was something about 
/dev/hde1 not existing.  My partner suggested we made /dev/hde1 and then 
it worked.
hda and hdb - hard drives
hdc - CD-ROM drive
hdd - IDE zip drive
hde - pcmcia-slot mass storage device (compact flash card adaptor).
hdf - same controller

Has anyone else needed hde with BL?    What do external floppy or hard or 
CD-ROM drives act like?  Would it help to have hde* in BL?

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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)  (with hdf)
> 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

This is wrong - I got confused with E: - hda and hdb are primary, hdc and 
hdd secondary, and hde and hdf tertiary.  Maybe the PCMCIA controller card
can control two such drives one of which is hdf?

> 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.