[Coco] cloud 9 SuperIDE with CF

[Frank Pittel]

I use a USB attached card reader. You can get them at any computer
store, radio shack, camera store, etc.

Frank


On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:12:55PM -0500, John T Chasteen wrote:
> Frank
> Did you have to add a connector to your LINUX box  
>  to be able to connect the CF unit?  I have PC with XP that is
> only 10 months old and I can't see any connectors that looks
> compatable for a CF unit. my hp notebook is a dv9010us.
> 
> Cloud9 told me about a solution but I don't understand
> the details yet. 
> 
> I need to read the Cloud9 doc for SuperIDE and get more
> familiar with the hardware.
> 
> Thank for any help you offer
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:47:00 -0500 Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>
> writes:
> > John,
> > 
> > I have to admit I cheat and plug the card into a card reader on
> > my linux box. I then use the dd command to read the data off of
> > the card. When I need to restore I use dd to put the data back on!
> > 
> > This solution works because dd simply reads bytes of data off of 
> > the
> > device. It doesn't care about filesystems. I don't know of anything 
> > like
> > it in the windows world though.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:03:55PM -0500, John T Chasteen wrote:
> > > Hello Coco Friends
> > > 
> > > I finally have all my equipment to start
> > > learning how to use RSDOS and NitrOS9
> > > with my new IDE drive.
> > > 
> > > My question is how to backup the CF unit?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
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