From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 1:49:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCBE37B417 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:49:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0C9nUe00342 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:49:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:49:30 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, my initial euphoria upon seeing that the SanDisk ImageMate Compact Flash reader is "supported" by FreeBSD has dissipated. It seems that the CF reader produces errors after transferring a few tens of megabytes. Thereafter, the errors block all further access to the drive, and since nothing can stop or clear the errors (as far as I can tell), the only way to get out of the situation is to boot--but the only way to boot is to power-cycle the system, since the system refuses to shut down cleanly once this error (timeouts in umass) starts to occur. Since booting the system for each access to the CF card is unacceptable, especially when the system won't come down cleanly afterwards, it looks like I'm right back where I started--and FreeBSD offers no advantage over Windows in this respect, since it is just as defective in its reader support. For those interested, the error messages are: Jan 10 12:22:10 freebie /kernel: umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT Jan 10 12:22:10 freebie /kernel: umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT Jan 10 12:22:40 freebie /kernel: umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT I looked all over the Web for help, but there was none. As usual, the FreeBSD archives are down, and again as usual, although many people have encountered the same error as I have, nobody seems to have any clue as to why the error occurs, or how to fix it. Here again, there is obviously no advantage to FreeBSD over Windows in this respect, and it may even be at a disadvantage, since you can at least get answers to most questions from Microsoft, if you pay for them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message