that's strange...it works for me.....at least the ones i've used have worked with opensolaris freebsd and linux. It just shows up as a normal sata drive. did you try more than one type of compactflash card? with the IDE unit, it was ALWAYS due to the card....most of them would work SOMEWHAT but not all of them would boot...but i've had no problems at all with the sata versions.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > Adam Sherman wrote: > >> On 6-Aug-09, at 11:32 , Thomas Burgess wrote: >> >>> i've seen some people use usb sticks, and in practice it works on SOME >>> machines. The biggest difference is that the bios has to allow for usb >>> booting. Most of todays computers DO. Personally i like compact flash >>> because it is fairly easy to use as a cheap alternative to a hard drive. I >>> mirror the cf drives exactly like they are hard drives so if one fails i >>> just replace it. USB is a little harder to do that with because they are >>> just not as consistent as compact flash. But honestly it should work and >>> many people do this. >>> >> >> >> This product looks really interesting: >> >> http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad2sahdcf.asp >> >> Take care, the SATA model didn't work with Solaris. I have haven't tried > the current builds (I last tried with nv_101). The IDE model works fine. > > -- > Ian. > >
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