Subject: Re: Ultra CF problems anyone?
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Isaac Sibson <isaac@blagged-hardware.net>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 04/04/2003 01:12:28
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I have exactly this error with my 128MB Daneelec and 256MB crucial CFs in 
my 770.If anyone knows how to solve it, that would be good.

At 14:46 03/04/2003 -0800, James Retterer wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>I've been running NetBSD 1.6 on a MobilePro 780 for a bit now - quite 
>happy with a PQI 256 MB CF card.  But... I wanted some more elbow room, 
>and I recently picked up a SanDisk Ultra 512, and I am getting unexpected 
>and largely annoying errors...  Sometimes It will install all the way 
>through, sometimes not.  Once installed, I can use it for a while, but 
>inevitably I will trip over same error.  Sometimes it happens when 
>installing software, sometimes when starting X, sometimes when copying 
>files - I will hit a loop of an error like this:
>
>wd0a: error writing fsbn 409830 of 409830-409831 (wd0 bn 418902; cn 415 tn 
>9 sn 15), retrying
>wd0: (id not found)
>
>{repeat ad nauseum}
>
>I've tried two different Ultra 512s, and on both the 780 and the 770 I 
>used to run -  the numbers change, depending upon what it's trying to do, 
>and when - but it's all variations on a theme.  It works beautifully for a 
>while ( or sometimes not so long ) and then I start getting the errors.
>
>I haven't had problems like this before with my old card, or off of a 340 
>MB microdrive - and also had no troubles on the 770 previously ( tho it 
>doesn't support the microdrive ) - I've tried a couple different 
>geometries too, and all with the same results.
>
>Has anyone else been successful with using an Ultra 512?  How 'bout a 
>plain old 512?  I am hoping that if it *is* an incompatibility, it's just 
>with the Ultra variety, not with the size.
>
>Any clues?
>
>Cheers,
>James
>
>--
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