Is there a reference? 

Forum: PCMCIA ATA/IDE Device Issues
Re: Compact Flash Hangs old Laptop (Rui-Tao Dong)
Re: It is a hardware incompatibility (David Hinds)
Date: 2000, Jul 14
From: Rui-Tao Dong rdong

Thanks for the quick reply. Do you have a reference? I haven't had any success with deja and Alta-Vista yet. The hardware work around seems to be my only way out (short of buying a new machine.) I am also wondering if I could do the hack on the adapter? Mistake will cost me only $10.

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Again, I don't recommend this at all Re: Is there a reference? (Rui-Tao Dong) Date: 2000, Jul 14 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

I'm not sure what sort of reference you want to see. I certainly don't know of anything documenting how to do the hardware mod, if that is what you want. Looking at the general PCMCIA specs I have, I'm not even sure how I figured out which was the right pin to cut. Even getting the laptop disassembled is not trivial. I do not recommend this and I'm kind of sorry I mentioned it. I don't know what your CF adapter looks like so I don't know if it might be easier to do the mod there. It would be less risky than cutting wires in your laptop, for sure. -- Dave

Almost worked Re: Again, I don't recommend this at all (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Jul 19 From: Rui-Tao Dong rdong

Using a multimeter, I found the pin on the adapter which connects to pin 43. I pushed the pin back and forth with a small screwdriver until it breaks. I popped it into the laptop, and it didn't freeze! Instead the cardmgr says, Jul 14 18:48:19 Alpha cardmgr[394]: initializing socket 0 Jul 14 18:48:19 Alpha cardmgr[394]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk Jul 14 18:48:19 Alpha cardmgr[394]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/ide_cs.o' Jul 14 18:49:07 Alpha kernel: hda: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50) Jul 14 18:49:07 Alpha kernel: hda: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50) Jul 14 18:49:07 Alpha kernel: hda: no response (status = 0xff), resetting drive Jul 14 18:49:07 Alpha kernel: hda: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50) Jul 14 18:49:07 Alpha kernel: hda: no response (status = 0xff) Jul 14 18:49:31 Alpha kernel: ide_cs: ide_register() at 0x140 & 0x14e, irq 7 failed Jul 14 18:49:32 Alpha cardmgr[394]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Jul 14 18:49:32 Alpha cardmgr[394]: shutting down socket 0 Jul 14 18:49:32 Alpha cardmgr[394]: executing: 'rmmod ide_cs' Looks like if I can get it to pass through the probing phase, then I'll be in a good shape.

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