From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 21:58:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E50637B416 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:58:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 13 Jan 2002 00:58:21 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 00:58:09 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> In-Reply-To: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0235a2158050d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> 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 On Saturday 12 January 2002 04:49 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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. Surely if it fails under both FreeBSD and Windows there's a very strong suggestion that it's hardware problem, don't you think? FWIW, the easiest way to get things off of compactflash card is to use a PCMCIA adaptor. Of course if you don't have a laptop you probably don't have ready access to a PCMCIA, but if you do, it works nicely and cuts out another layer or two of hardware in between. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message