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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
To:        freebsd-small@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>
Subject:   Re: the fla driver definitely has bugs ...
Message-ID:  <200104052057.QAA69722@gta.com>
In-Reply-To: <3ACCA8FD.CD45F7FA@gta.com>

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> While one can get it to work somehow and sometimes and for so
> long, something is definitely wrong with the fla driver (DiskOnChip).
> This stray interrupt 7 shouldn't happen at all in the first place. 
> And it also seems as if after several writes it somehow goes bad and
> once it starts with these stray interrupts there is no other way
> than redoing the disklabel, filesystem, etc. 
I hae thousands of systems installed using the fla driver and
8MB DOCs without any problem.  Initially based upon FreeBSD 3.5.,
now based upon 4.2.   I have had DOCs forget everything and
need to be flashed after shipping.  After installation the DOCs
have been very reliable.  They just are expensive, single source
and can be hard to get as compared to compact flash.

> This is not right. Is the fla driver being maintained by someone
> or have we inherited it from the M-Systems guys AS IS?
Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.ORG) is the author and I assume the
maintainer.

Larry

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