Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:53:58 -0400 From: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com> To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the fla driver definitely has bugs ... Message-ID: <20010425225358.A58470@gta.com> In-Reply-To: <3AE75F24.564CC9D4@gta.com>; from gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:35:00PM %2B0000 References: <200104052057.QAA69722@gta.com> <3AE75F24.564CC9D4@gta.com>
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> I'm sorry but I can't confirm that. I have nothing but trouble > with the fla device with all 5 boxes that I'm trying to configure. > So, I know I don't just have a foul chip. What can I say. There in the customer's hands without any complaints. (-; > - "stray irq 7" is something that should not ever happen in a clean > kernel certainly not when mounting or otherwise accessing a flash > disk device. Never saw this problem. > - There is so much magic involved that I don't even dare to create > a fresh flash filesystem. I have one image that appears to work > and I use that as a template just writing different kernels and > configs to it. I agree there is definitly some magic. You have to keep your kernel within the first 2 megs. The 2 meg number if from memory. They geometry reported by the DOCs is very strange. You can very easily put a kernel on a DOC that you can't load using the BIOS. > This is completely obscure to me and quite annoying, especially since > my other device that uses Compact Flash has just *no* problems with > any of this, period. So I know I'm not doing anything obvious wrong, > I just seem to be falling into the gaps of a brittle device / driver > combination. I never had any problems with the fla driver. I had to be careful with kernel location so the BIOS could load it. > BTW: the systems on which I have problems are the Flytech NetPC > B62 systems with 8 MB DiskOnChip. The computers are quite fine > otherwise, just that this stupid DiskOnChip thing causes me to rip > my hair out. (As you can hear in my tone.) I know you are not going to want to hear this, but we have delivered thousands of systems based around the flytech NetPC boxes using 8MB DOCs. We have quit using the DOCs except for supporting legacy systems. I'll dig out some installation floppies that you can use as a sanity check on your hardware. Larry -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | http://www.gnatbox.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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