Subject: Re: CompactFlash and PCMCIA
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/18/1999 17:04:08
Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 02:55:08PM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> > I too, tried a bunch of (Kingston) CF cards in my laptop a few weeks
> > ago.  It's an IBM ThinkPad 760EL, running 1.4-ish.
> >
> > I couldn't ever get it to do anything but hang when a CF card was
> > inserted at run time or detected at boot time.
>
> Same thing on my TP 310E laptop.  It's been the same since 1.3F (which was
> the first version I tried on the laptop).  I was told this happens because
> NetBSD doesn't configure the CardBus controller properly (or something like
> that).

And it's the same on my Sony Vaio 505.  I'm using the CardBus patches and
I still have the same problem...
Someone needs to take a good look at the pcmcia code, for this and other
reasons.

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        -- Lennart