Hello, Michael, this is one of the CF card adapters that has a jumper, JP1, that has the Pin-20 power source option as you suggest below. The factory default position is external power (floppy disk power plug), and the alternative position is: "IDE Pin-20." The the settings for the three jumpers are on the jumper's printed circuit board under the CF Card. Sorry I didn't look at the one-sheet instruction sheet that I cannot find right now, but Michael's email reminded me to look under the CF Card. Tom --- On Sat, 1/8/11, Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: CF Card Adapter White List Candidate > To: "Robert Hancock" <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Tom Denchfield" <td_denchfield@xxxxxxxxx>, "Tejun Heo" <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 4:48 AM > 07.01.2011 07:22, Robert Hancock > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Tom Denchfield <td_denchfield@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> The reason that I mentioned powering my CF adapter > with a floppy drive power plug is that the first time I > booted after inserting the adapter, I forgot to plug the > floppy drive power plug into the adapter. The > adapter's power on LED did not light, and I think that > Ubuntu did not see the CF card. > >> > >> The reason that I mentioned the pin that was > intentionally left out of the motherboard IDE socket was > that I thought that the missing pin might have had something > to do with needing to power the adapter with the floppy > drive power plug given my experience with forgetting to plug > the floppy power plug into the adapter as mentioned in the > previous paragraph. > >> > >> The pin that is missing from the motherboard IDE > socket is very close to the middle of the IDE socket. > My guess is that the pin is in the in the range #18 to > #24. It is far away from pin #34. I am going by > memory here, but I clearly remember that the missing pin is > in the middle. Pin #34 is going into the CF card > adapter when I insert it. I do not know whether pin > #34 is grounded at the mainboard. > > > > If it's pin 20, that's a key pin that's always missing > and which has > > the corresponding hole filled in on the cable side > (from compliant > > connectors, anyway), to prevent plugging in the cable > the wrong way > > around. > > > > Not sure where the adapter would be potentially > drawing power from on > > the IDE connector - as far as I know there aren't any > pins on a > > standard IDE connector which provide continuous power. > The adapters > > I've seen all use an extra power connector. > > The 20th pin is actually used on some VIA EPIA (mini-itx) > motherboards, > exactly for this purpose: to provide power for CF cards > like this. > Some IDE to CF adaptors can be set up (with a jumper) to > ger power > to the card from there. > > /mjt > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html