[iPAQ] PC card IDE adapter

Hi all,

I recently purchased a PC card IDE adapter from eBay, in the hope that I might
(with the addition of a suitable external power supply) be able to connect an
IDE hard drive or CD-ROM drive to my iPAQ. The card was pretty cheap and
claimed it was a 16-bit PCMCIA card so I decided to purchase it and try it
out.

The card is labelled "Zip 250" and "Model No. Z250PCMCIA". One would assume
that it was once supplied with an external laptop Zip drive. In my laptop it
is identified as follows:

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# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "ARC", "ATAPI", "V2", "(C) ARCHOS S.A.1999-99 Fax +86 - 85 96
2707"
  manfid: 0x5241, 0x0043
  function: 4 (fixed disk)
# cardctl status
  5V 16-bit PC Card
  function 0: [ready], [wp]
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When the card is inserted on my laptop, the ide-cs module is loaded and a hard
drive connected to the card can be mounted and read. My laptop is running
kernel 2.6.7 and pcmcia-cs 3.2.5.

However, it seems that it does not work on my iPAQ h3970/PC card plus sleeve
running Familiar unstable (kernel hh36.11, pcmcia-cs 3.2.7). "cardctl status"
tells me it is a 5V 16-bit PC card, but "cardctl ident" and "cardctl info"
look the same as they would if there were no card in the slot.

cardmgr has this to say:

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Oct 13 03:57:09 familiar daemon.info cardmgr[442]: socket 0: Anonymous Memory
Oct 13 03:57:10 familiar daemon.info cardmgr[442]: executing: 'modprobe
memory_cs 2>&1'
Oct 13 03:57:10 familiar daemon.info cardmgr[442]: + insmod: memory_cs.o: no
module by that name found
Oct 13 03:57:10 familiar daemon.info cardmgr[442]: + modprobe: failed to load
module memory_cs
Oct 13 03:57:10 familiar daemon.notice cardmgr[442]: modprobe exited with
status 1
Oct 13 03:57:10 familiar daemon.notice cardmgr[442]:
module /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk6-pxa1-hh36/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not available
Oct 13 03:57:11 familiar daemon.err cardmgr[442]: get dev info on socket 0
failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
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Is this perhaps a weirdo PCMCIA card that the iPAQ hardware doesn't support?
Or is there something else I'm missing?

Cheers,
Paul
Received on Tue Oct 12 07:20:04 2004