Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:47:16 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE compact flash reader FAILURE message Message-ID: <470D0214.9020508@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <470C6000.60902@fusiongol.com> References: <20071009120010.833FE16A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> <470C6000.60902@fusiongol.com>
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Nathan Butcher wrote:
> This is not a big issue in CURRENT, or is even much of a priority I
> feel, but I thought I'd ask about it anyway.
>
> I have a compact flash reader inserted into the IDE port on my
> motherboard. It can host two compact flash cards. Currently I have an
> 8GB 133x compact flash and an 8GB 266x compact flash (both Transcend) in
> the slots.
>
> What I find interesting is that the 8GB 266x compact flash appears in
> dmesg as such:-
>
> ad5: FAILURE - SET_MULTI status=51 <READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4 <ABORTED>
> ad5: 7775MB <TRANSCEND20070418> at ata2-slave UDMA66
>
> It seems like I can write to it anyway, but I haven't tried yet.
> What's the reason for the FAILURE? I assume it has something to do with
> the faster write speed on the card.
>
> _______________________________________________
Afair it's a ATA command to set some specific variables, since your
flash drives are not ATA drives, they appear to not support it
[which sounds correct].
Cheers
remko
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