Re: SanDisk technical information & Modified CompactFlash adapters

[Bernd Birkenbach <Z80@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rev. Jack Swindell wrote:
> Here is an interesting page on the SanDisk web site:

> http://www.sandisk.com/tech/oem_design/cf_dc.asp

> It includes a link
> (http://www.sandisk.com/tech/oem_design/cf/CF%20MemMode.ZIP) to a .ZIP file
> full of .PDF files about using their CompactFlash cards in "Memory Mapped"
> mode.  I've been sort of guessing that this is the mode that the DIPSSDP.SYS
> driver for the SanDisk uses, as the original Version 1 PCMCIA card slots
> were memory oriented and not so much I/O oriented.  Apparently also, the
> Memory Mapped mode is the initial power-on mode for their CompactFlash
> memory cards.

My analysis of the CF driver shows that it is working in memory map
and LBA mode.
More information about CF cards is available at http://www.compactflash.org/cfspc1_4.pdf
This is the CF+ and Compact Flash specification version 1.4