From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 7:10:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37C637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C5743EC5 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:10:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jshenry@comcast.net) Received: from whitetower (bgp01561290bgs.gambrl01.md.comcast.net [68.50.33.221]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.07 (built Nov 25 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H7B00305M11WE@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:07:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:07:49 -0500 (EST) From: "J. Seth Henry" Subject: RE: compact flash use X-X-Sender: jshenry@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, randall@ucsb.edu Message-id: <20021218095640.O50604-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 Randall, I took a look at the adapter, and it appears to support multiple formats. This could be the source of your problem. I use a much simpler CF -> IDE adapter for programming FreeBSD images to CF devices for use in embedded systems. My adapter has an IDE header, CF slot and LED - that's it. CF devices can operate in true ATA mode. Perhaps your adapter is operating it in some other mode? Anyway, I have a copy of FreeBSD 4.7R booting from a CF card. I even NFS mounted the kernel source, and installed a new kernel last night. IOW - it should work. If it doesn't, I would tend to suspect your adapter. Unless you really need the other formats, I would go for an adapter that operates the CF device as a true ATA device. I got mine from Mesa. One thing to note, CF is not terribly fast. On my systems, it shows up as PIO1. It is also possible that the controller is getting hosed because your system is sending data too fast. Good luck, Seth Henry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message