Re: How to image duplicate a compact flash

From: Richard (RichardRapier_at_netscape.net)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: 22 Sep 2004 18:58:22 GMT

Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote in news:41519ac8$0$63271$a1866201
@newsreader.visi.com:

> On 2004-09-22, Rainer.Faulstich@web.de <Rainer.Faulstich@web.de> wrote:
>
>> does somebody know a (windows) tool to make a BINARY IMAGE
>> copy of a compact flash containing an operating system
>> together with some applications. The new flash disk must be
>> able to boot after the duplication. It might be possible under
>> unix/linux by "dd if=/dev/xxx of=/fileonsomedisk"
>
> It is. That works fine.
>
> Be warned that sizes of CF cards vary qutie a bit (not all
> 256MB flashes are the same size), so you'll get different size
> image files from different CF cards
>
> The folks I knew that were duplicating flashes never had much
> luck with windows solutions.
>

I have used Elan Memory Explorer software to duplicate PCMCIA memory card
images. You can get adapters for CF to PCMCIA that are supported by
their software, although I have never used them personally. Not the most
elegent solution by any means. 

-- 
Richard

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