You can purchase compact flash drives that talk to your computer as any
normal IDE device would (you can also modify a standard compactflash
readerbay to do that, but it requires re-wiring of the cables.)

 If you got one of these, it would be identical to a IDE drive from the
point of view of the BIOS and NetBSD so I see no reason why it shoulden't
work.

regards


simian at replic d0t net

On Wed, 16 May 2001, John Maier wrote:

> I keep comming across jobs where they have some special need that either are
> VERY cost prohibative or there are no real solutions available where I think to
> myself, "Hey! NetBSD can do that."
>
> Has anyone run across a small computer (Intel/AMD or other) based computer that
> can boot off a PCMICIA memeory card?  I work with Bay and Cisco all the time and
> that PCMICIA boot it the best!  Not HD to die, low power, etc.
>
> I could build a small bootable kernel with a core number of tools (like the
> install Kernel) and configureations and be done with it.   Of course I'ld have
> to have PCMICIA in the kernel, if I ever wanted to talk to the memory card; like
> if I wanted to mount /etc latter from the card (just thinking...).
>
> Kind of take me back a few years, when a few people were considering porting
> NetBSD to a Cisco router (680x0 base model).
>
> Ideas?
>
> John Maier - Administrator
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