Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

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Date: Monday, September 3, 2007 - 3:53 am

I have gotten past all the problems I discussed in my original message
to this list.

On the AMD/Tyan motherboard with the Addonics CF to SATA converter,
what I did was purchase a Lexar Professional UDMA 300X CF card.
This card is faster, and provides the UDMA interface that the
motherboard and the OS likes to use.

I changed the cabling so that the flash card was the first disk (wd0
to OpenBSD),
and I moved the SATA hard drive to wd1.

For this first attempt, I put swap, /tmp, and /var onto partitions on wd1.
wd0 (the flash), has /, /usr, and /home

I was able to cleanly install OpenBSD and boot into it. It appears to
work fine.
I do get an error from savecore that wants to use wd0b, and I'll have
to tweak that.

On an older i386 machine, I used another CF (actually it provides a
PCMCIA) to IDE adaptor made by

http://www.prestico.com/prod-cardmaster.htm

I used the Sandisk drive I wrote about previously. The sandisk CF card
does not support UDMA. Again, made the CF card be wd0, and the hard drive be
wd1, the partitions were as described above. Again, no problems
installing OpenBSD,
and running it.

Thanks to Nick Holland for suggesting making the flash card be wd0,
and inspiring me to go try and find a UDMA CF card. And appologies to
Nick and everyone for the poorly worded subject line on my original
message.

Don

On 7/30/07, Don Jackson wrote:

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Messages in current thread:
How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD, Don Jackson, (Mon Jul 30, 4:13 pm)
Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD, Don Jackson, (Mon Sep 3, 3:53 am)
Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD, Nick Holland, (Wed Sep 5, 10:40 pm)
Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD, Nick Holland, (Mon Jul 30, 8:08 pm)
Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD, Nick Holland, (Mon Jul 30, 8:52 pm)