From owner-freebsd-small Wed Apr 25 22:40:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625B437B424 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3Q5e3U80760; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:40:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Gunther Schadow Cc: Larry Baird , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the fla driver definitely has bugs ... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:35:00 -0000." <3AE75F24.564CC9D4@aurora.regenstrief.org> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:40:02 +0200 Message-ID: <80758.988263602@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3AE75F24.564CC9D4@aurora.regenstrief.org>, Gunther Schadow writes: >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. > >- "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. The DoC has no interrupt line, so all operations to it are polled. This basically makes the rest of the system suffer while you access the DoC. >- 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. You need to respect the 1024 cylinder thing on all disks. This is more of an issue with devices as small as the DoC. I have a contract right now to update the DoC driver to the OSAK-4.1 kit from M-sys, which should amongst other things make it possible to run on the 288MB devices, but I don't have an actual release-note which can tell me if any bugs are fixed. If any of you want to help test the new version: send me email. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message