On Mar 3, 2004, at 11:06 PM, <EXT dash Mike dot Bradshaw at nokia dot com> wrote:

> The continuing saga of attempting to get this Verbatim 32M CF card to 
> work.
> Due to having NO current working Un*x boxes, everything has been done 
> on MS Windows.
>
> what i tried last night:

Mike,

One suggestion that I would give is to use a bootable livecd (if you 
want a gui) or a floppy distribution (which I have not explored yet). 
You don't have to touch your windows installation and it's a quick and 
easy way to keep a linux distribution around.

I used slax from http://slax.linux-live.org/ and it worked just fine 
once once I got over some human typing error. It boots just fine and 
gives me a linux machine without having to install it to my HD.

Once it's was booted, just type...
gunzip -c wrap-1.0.img | dd of=/dev/<your flash device here> bs=16k

For figuring out what device it is, you might find the e-mail below 
written by Jim Gifford of use...

Oh, and I am using 20MB Sandisks in a linnix.com (cheap, functional) CF 
IDE adapter.

I hope this is helpful,
Aaron

> Is your CF-IDE adapter on the primary or secondary bus, master or 
> slave?
> The first thing you have to do is make sure the CF card is being seen 
> by
> your linux machine before you can write to it.
>
> Try using hdparm -i on the devices /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, and
> /dev/hdd and look for the drive information that matches your CF.  Then
> use that device name for your dd command.  You can also do
> 'dmesg | grep hd' and look for your CF media in that output.  If you
> don't find it this way, it isn't being recognized.
>
> You won't need to blank the media, as dd does a direct write to the
> media.
>
> hope this helps,
> jim