From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 13:25:47 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 5979D37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:25:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFE743E75 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gADLPdFk074899 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id gADLPdfu074896 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:25:39 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:25:39 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete lockup when using Compact Flash via ATA mode. (followup) In-Reply-To: <20021111172014.A96391-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> Message-ID: <20021113132410.F63641-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 All - I got ahold of a USB external card reader and was able to write as much as I wanted to the card with both w2k and freebsd. This would make me believe there's a bug in the servers BIOS or something since when it's installed FreeBSD sees it as a typical IDE harddrive. Are my assumptions correct? -philip On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi - > I'm not sure I've got my terminology exactly right, but here's my > problem. I've got a small server that has a compact flash card slot > built-in so that it appears as a standard hard drive (the BIOS sees it as > HDD2 and FreeBSD as /dev/ad2). I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto this > drive from source cvsupped a day or two ago. > > However, part way through (and it's never at the same place) the entire > machine completely locks up. No messages to the console, nothing in log > files, zip. But the entire machine is completely frozen. > > Once I had it happen while doing a "rm -rf *" in the directory I'd mounted > it to. > > However, I've also used rawio to write a 220 meg file (the card is 256 and > freebsd says there's 222 available) without problems and set it to > randomly write 1 meg files all night long and it was still up in the > morning. > > So my question is do I have a flaky flash card? Or a bad controller of > some sort? Or something else? > > And is there any way to figure out what it is (without purchasing more > cards :) or map around the "bad spot" or? > > Server info: http://www.nexcom.com/product/ebc/ebs1569/1569ps.htm > > Thanks all! > > -philip > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message