[lug] compact flash leveling in ubuntu (9.04)?

[bgiles]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> There are two possible situations here:
>
>  - You have a flash drive which has been disguised as a normal ATA (or
>    SATA) drive.  In this case, you're not really talking to the drive,
>    you're talking to a flash translation layer which tries to make the
>    drive look like something it's not.  One of the things the FTL does
>    is wear leveling.  Some of them do a rather better job at it than
>    others.  But it's not something you have any control over once
>    you've made your purchasing decision.
>   
It's identifying itself as '/dev/sda', so it does look like it's 
masquerading as a SATA drive.  It should be fine then since it's a 
netbook MB, not a standard MB that somebody stuck a CF drive on.

Bear