Hello everybody,
I'm trying to install LabVIEW Real Time 8.5.1 in a Desktop PC using a compact flash, with an adaptor for IDE - my compact flash behaves as a normal HDD.
All the rest of my hardware is compatible with RT, because before this I installed this same system with a normal Hard Disk and it worked fine.
Now I want to use a Compact Flash instead of the Hard Disk, and I'm running into problems. I tried several brands of compact flashes, and some work well, but some just don't work - I cannot install the OS.
My problem is that I don't know what are the characteristics that determine if the card will work or not.
It works well with a TWINMOS 4GB - UltraX 140X and with a CFC (64MB) that I removed from an old NI PXI controller I have.
It does not work with a SanDisk Extreme IV 4GB and with a Silicon Power 4GB 45X.
I thought that it would be the way the card is mapped in the BIOS (removable device or HDD), that I could not boot with a removable device, but the card from the PXI controller is "seen" as a removable device, also speed doesn't seem to be the problem.
I tried to get help from SanDisk, but of course they said that they don't have the knowledge to support such a strange usage...
I tried to install Win XP in one of the cards whare I cannot install RT and I succeeded.
Does anyone know what are the CFC characteristics I have to look to, before buying another card?
Thanks,
Paulo
