On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:32:51PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried a 1.6ZE kernel on my TP A31p.  I have three problems:
> 
> dd'ing a disk image onto a CF card does not work reliably.  I copy the
> image like this:
> 
> # dd if=foo.img of=/dev/rwd1d bs=1m progress=1

Does the geometry of the disk image agree with the geometry of the CF
card? If not, I would not expect for dd'ing the image to produce a card
that passes fsck.

I notice that the geometries of your example cards disagree:

> wd1 at atabus2 drive 0: <SAMSUNG CF/ATA>
> wd1: drive supports 4-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
> wd1: 124 MB, 496 cyl, 16 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 253952 sectors
> 
> wd1 at atabus2 drive 0: <TOSHIBA THNCF128MMA>
> wd1: drive supports 1-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
> wd1: 122 MB, 978 cyl, 8 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 250368 sectors

Dave

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