From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_mynewroads.com)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 13:54:36 EST
Yes it is IDE, I have plugged a bare shark into the IDE cable in my
test desktop (old and wheezy) and it works fine. What probably would
not work is anything that needs drivers to function - how to load
drivers before bootup???
Bill
Bruce Markowitz wrote:
>
> I have managed to boot with a Shark drive, but I think it is straight IDE
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Van Tuyl" <wvantuyl_at_mynewroads.com>
> Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:36 AM
> Subject: Re: PCMCIA Compact disk boot.
>
> >
> > I just did some more playing with my 755CD. If the CF card is not
> > active - bootable - then no see as a boot device. I did the same
> > thing with a PCMCIA hard drive and an ATA flash card. Then I put the
> > CF card and the ATA card in the 755CD. The upper slot has priority
> > and the the lower slot was not recognized at all. I swapped the cards
> > to verify this. With only one card it was slot optional.
> >
> > As far as FDISK is concerned, when I tried to FDISK on my desktop in a
> > DOS window it would give "No fixed disks ..." or just bomb as long as
> > there was a card in the PCMCIA reader. Curious.
> >
> > So the secret may be - make the CF bootable - set active - etc. You
> > may have to use a disk editor that will see the Partition table.
> >
> > BTW, when I set the 755CD to boot off the PCMCIA slot and there was
> > nothing in it, it gave the insert floppy screen. When I set boot
> > sequence to be PCMCIA - Floppy - HDD1 it would boot to the first
> > available drive. Got to tell it what to do.
> >
> > Rots o' ruck, Rutenant.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > I believe that would be correct - only ATA cards would be bootable
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bert Haskins" <bhaskins_at_triton.net>
> > > To: "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
> > > Cc: "William Van Tuyl" <wvantuyl_at_mynewroads.com>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:20 AM
> > > Subject: Re: PCMCIA Compact disk boot.
> > >
> > > > What make/manufacture/brand is your card?
> > > > I'm beginning to think that the card must say ATA
> > > > to be able to boot.
> > > > So I'll need to know what to look for on eBay.
> > > > Oh well, It's still very useful just as it is, it just means
> > > > that my control apps must still have a floppy to boot up.
> > > > At least I can get rid of the somewhat fragile hard drive.
> > > > Unlike almost all of the rest of the world, I still write and
> > > > run lots of dos, embedded Linux, and CP/M (anybody remember that) apps
> > > > in control and data logging applications.
> > > > One of these is an marine autopilot that keeps the boat
> > > > on course when we get a double header (big salmon)
> > > > and have better things to do..
> > > > Thanks, Bert
> > > >
> > > > David Ross wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > then how can you format the card without FDISKing it first? Try
> > > > >
> > > > > CF usually comes preformatted. In my case (TP560X) all I had to do
> was
> > > copy system files
> > > > > onto the CF, change the BIOS to boot from pcmcia, and it booted.
> > > > >
> > > > > - David R.
> > > >
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