Hello Ian, Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 8:57:33 AM, you wrote:
IC> Brian Hechinger wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:17:45PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: >> >>> Has anyone here had any luck using a CF to SATA adapter? >>> >>> I've just tried an Addonics ADSACFW CF to SATA adaptor with an 8GB card >>> that I wanted to use for a boot pool and even though the BIOS reports the >>> disk, Solaris B95 (or the installer) doesn't see it. >>> >> >> I tried this a while back with an IDE to CF adapter. Real nice looking one >> too. >> >> It would constantly cause OpenBSD to panic. >> >> I would recommend against using this, unless you get real lucky. If you want >> flash to boot from, buy one of the ones that is specifically made for it (not >> CF, but industrial grade flash meant to be a HDD). Those things work a LOT >> better. I can look up the details of the ones my friend uses if you'd like. >> >> IC> I was looking to run some tests with a CF boot drive before we get an IC> X4540, which has a CF slot. The installer did see the attached USB sticks... IC> Any further information welcome. When it comes to x4540 and booting from CF card - it just works. It is slow for writes but it doesn't matter that much. Just make sure you put core dumps, cores, etc somewhere else than CF card. -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
