Jason,

Atleast from me, no offense taken.

It is my understanding that the BIOS thinks a CF card is a hard drive,
so there really shouldn't be an issue.

What kinds of problems are you experiencing, or was this just a query
for what works.

You can also search ebay for "compact flash adapter" "cf-to-ide
adapter" . I bought mine from ebay for less than $7 each, $11 with
shipping.

- Don

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jason Collins <jason at mammothcomputers dot com>
Date: Dec 9, 2005 7:53 PM
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Compact Flash Adapters for PC installation
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch


I did not mean to offend and do not want to freeload hence my request to be
pointed in the right direction.  I did search the archives, but did not know
about the wiki.  Perhaps I searched for the wrong terms / criteria.  Most of
what I found had to do with embedded installations, not generic PC.  But,
maybe my question to the list was not focused enough -- I seem to be having
trouble specifically with the Intel boards.  Perhaps I should ask, "Has
anyone had success with CF to IDE adapters on Intel boards D865 and higher?"


-----Original Message-----
From: Holger Bauer [mailto:Holger dot Bauer at citec dash ag dot de]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 5:51 PM
To: Jason Collins; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: AW: [m0n0wall] Compact Flash Adapters for PC installation

search the mailinglist, this has been asked many times before.

Holger

        -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
        Von: Jason Collins [mailto:jason at mammothcomputers dot com]
        Gesendet: Fr 09.12.2005 23:07
        An: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
        Cc:
        Betreff: [m0n0wall] Compact Flash Adapters for PC installation



        Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a compact flash
to
        IDE adapter that will work with the generic PC image using newer
Intel
        mainboards?  I've tried a few different ones from Addonics which
crash
        the system at various stages during boot and a generic one which
would
        not boot at all in an Intel motherboard.  Alternatively, suggestions
for
        properly configuring a CF to IDE adapter and getting it to work
without
        crashing would be appreciated as well.  We've settled for now on
using
        an Adaptec USB floppy/CF reader, but have found the boot time in
newer
        motherboards to be excessively long -- + 7 minutes.  We'd assumed
that
        was because FreeBSD 4 did not have USB 2.0 drivers for the newer
        chipsets from Intel (915 and higher).  Anyway, assistance, thoughts,
        commentary would be most welcome.





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