Re: snapshots are broken

[David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> Mmm, that's a nice thing.  I should check out more of the Compact Flash
> cards, see how easy it might be to whip up some generic support for
> some.  We do have some support for certain brands already IIRC.

Good news: in IDE emulation mode, they look and act just like IDE 
drives.  You need an adaptor; I grabbed one for $20 (which, for a 
mass-market item, would be overpriced -- this is literally a few 
resistors and diodes, maybe an LED or two if you want to get fancy, and 
the hardware to adapt the form factors -- but, sadly, this doesn't seem 
to be a mass-market item).

I think that I did see some ATAPI messages from the Linux kernel when 
using it... no functionality was amiss, though.

http://www.acscontrol.com/Index_ACS.asp?Page=/Pages/Products/CompactFlash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm 
is where I got mine from.  If you're feeling more hobbyist-inclined, the 
(very readable) standards can be downloaded for free from 
http://www.compactflash.org/ .


However, in IDE emulation mode, you cannot remove the card; it tends to 
make the IDE bus a tad angry.  For that, you would want to use a normal 
card reader.

Dave