Re: VIA Mini-ITX mobo

[Andy Laurence <andy@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Poltorak wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:08:57AM +0100, Stuart Booth wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:58:23 +0100, John Poltorak
<jp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >I recently saw some mention of VIA mobo's here and wondered
if anyone is 
> > >using one...
> > 
> > Mine's in a Cubid 2677 case with an CF-EIDE adapter so that I can
boot
> > the IPCop firewall distribution of Linux from Compact Flash.
> 
> I got a Cubid 2688 case a couple of weeks ago. I'm running OS/2 on
mine, 
> and would give CF a try if I knew how to attach a CF card. I do have a
2MB 
> CF card on another system that boots up OK and would like to have the
same 
> option on the VIA. I just found a way of remote booting via a Token
Ring 
> card today so that gives me an alternative boot option if I need
one.

You can get IDE>CF adapters.  The CF card then plugs in just like a
hard 
disk.  Bear in mind that CF has limited write cycles before
failure.  
We're using CF for our nodes in the Consume project.

Andy
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