[mythtv-users] CF card adapter Hard Drive

[Andre]

On 8 Sep 2010, at 23:52, Tortise wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre" <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk>
> To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] CF card adapter Hard Drive
> 
> 
>>>> I have an IDE to CF adaptor but I discovered that not all CF cards can be made bootable, the only one I have that's bootable is 8MB, barely big enough for a modern kernel and guaranteed bootable CF cards are rather expensive.
>> 
>>> I thought all CF drives can be made to boot as they are mere passive devices storing data, including boot files.  Not all CF adapters are bootable though, although I think most are.
> 
>> That's what I thought, I know my adaptor can boot because I pulled it out of an old firewall machine which had the whole system on an 8MB CF. It will boot with a 1GB CF I have but that's very small and also very slow, the 4GB 133x CF I have doesn't boot but seems entirely readable once the system is booted from CD or HDD. Very odd as the adaptor is entirely passive, maybe there is some PC bios mode issue, I thought I had it working with the bios forced to PIO4 and no DMA but although the install seemed to go ok it didn't boot.
> 
>> Strangely Amazon paired the same Kingston Elite Pro 133x card I have with the Startech adaptor, I guess they don't know any better either.
> 
> I use a number of 8G Kingston 133x Elite Pro's, which you imply you are using and failing

4G Kingston 133x Elite Pro, which people on mp3car and various other places seem to also be having trouble with. No trouble at all with a PQI hi speed 40 1GB card in the same adaptor & MB.

If you are having success with ostensibly the same card I'll persist, I'd really rather use the supposedly perfectly good card in my hand than go shopping.

Thanks


> - I suggest a clean re-install deleting the existing image and also not installing swap space, and other measures - search the mythtvnz list for further instructions. 
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