Re: Flashdisk, M-Systems, Devicedriver, TrueFFS, Booting
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:46:02 +0000 (GMT)
> > i have a M-Systems Flashdisk PCD-896 (ISA) with 4 MB. With an
> Can you still get your money back?
>
> > I searched for a kernel-driver for this hardware, but i didn't found any.
> M-Systems informed me that for $50000(UDS) you get a license to their source
> which you can use to write a driver. Have you tried the IDE driver?
>
> Use a flash disk that has an IDE interface or one that gives hardware specs.
> I believe Sandisk works under Linux but I have not personally used them.
I have both 4Mbyte flash + controller on a chip sandisk and 15Mbyte sandisk
flash on my PC110's - it works faultlessly. Its also normally cheaper as
they can use flash with badblocks for IDE flash and remap them out