Subject: Re: compact flash card
To: None <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Ben C <bensbrain@hotmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/10/2001 00:28:35
>From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
>
>I have lots of 8 and 32MB CF cards and they all work fine.  I have a
>128MB CF card that doesn't work fine.  It's strange.  It works on one
>of my laptops (I can mount, read, write, etc), but on my Jornada, where
>another 32MB CF card works fine, it just hangs.  Also, on another x86
>machine that has no trouble dealing with the 8 and 32MB cards, the 128MB
>card probes but any access to it ("disklabel wd1", etc) just wedges the
>box solid.
>
>I suspect it's because it's just some cheap crud card.
>

Actually, it's a problem with the notebook or hardware you are trying to 
read with. I have a 32MB card which works differently on NetBSD on an 
Omnibook and on a Thinkpad. Thinkpad can't read it properly and hangs.

Ben

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