[Soekris] Linux IDE driver for CF card

[Jan Ceuleers]

Thorsten,

Thorsten M. wrote:
> I've set up a a Linux system with strpped down kernel on my net4501
> board. Now my problem is, that the CF card is really slow. hdparm shows
> ~2 MB/s transfer speed and UDMA is disabled.
> My Question is: Which kernel driver (2.6.26.5) do I have to use to get
> UDMA working?

In addition to the advice others have given, one thing that I have found 
necessary getting the 4801 IDE interface to work properly is that I've 
had to exclude the generic IDE driver from the initrd image such that it 
would not prevent the correct driver from being loaded.

HTH, Jan