PCMCIA Interface
Using PCMCIA Cards
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SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
Memory cards
Memory cards are used as solid state disks and can be formatted and
mounted. For example, to format an SRAM card with a MS-DOS
filesystem the following command would be used:
# fdformat -t dos /dev/dsk/c2d0s0
(slot 0)
# fdformat -t dos /dev/dsk/c2d1s0
(slot 1)
To mount the card, the following command could be used:
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0s0:c /pcfs
(slot 0)
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d1s0:c /pcfs
(slot 1)
Before removing the card, you should select the
Eject
button in the
NCE PCMCIA panel. This executes a series of commands defined in
the NCE PCMCIA Eject Script.
PC Flash cards are used in a similar way but use different device files.
These are as follows:
/dev/dsk/c3d0s0
(slot 0)
/dev/dsk/c3d1s0
(slot 1)
Note
SRAM and PC Flash cards can only be formatted as 1.4MB devices by Solaris. To achieve
their full capacity, you can format them with a PC and mount them with the commands
shown above.
Hard disks
Note
Because of its physical thickness, a PCMCIA hard disk must be installed in slot 0. It
occupies both slots and so prevents a second PCMCIA card being fitted in slot 1.
A PCMCIA hard disk is used in a very similar way to a conventional
hard disk. It can be formatted, have a a file system created on it and can
be mounted in the conventionl way.
Your SPARCbook supports “hot plugging” of a PCMCIA hard disk.
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