PCMCIA Support

[Adam Agnew]

No plans that I know of to add PCMCIA support. And if I may make a
recommendation, why not get a compact flash on ide adapter? Our friends
at cwlinux.com still sell such a beast i believe. And plenty of us on the
list use this solution.
- Adam Agnew


On Thu, 1 May 2003 tcc_linuxbios at thinkthink.com wrote:

>     The reason I'm interested in linuxbios is that I'd like to create a
> self-contained (not remote booted) no-moving-parts system for
> ruggetized use.
>
>     I'd be open to a better idea - but so far I'm thinking of putting
> an OpenBSD fs on a pcmcia ATA flash card and access it through one of
> those PCI<->pcmcia cards. This should make for a neat off-the-shelf
> system for firewalls, gateways, etc. Most bios's don't support pcmcia
> because most mb's don't have pcmcia hw... Therefore my linuxbios
> interest. Has anyone considered putting in PCMCIA support? A grep of
> sources and mail archive comes up blank, except for booting off of CF.
> CF would work but I suspect I have to buy a special (read expensive) mb
> that has CF support.
>
>     Am I getting myself into a project? :)
>
>     tom.c
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