Slightly off topic here: how many times can you read and write these CF
cards before you have to throw them out? What constitues as one write - does
it buffer a whole lot of small writes and do them at one time?

Thanks
 Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
Behalf Of Herb Peyerl
Sent: 10 August 2001 01:16
To: Ben C
Cc: joseph.sirucka@dodgyware.com; port-i386@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: compact flash card


"Ben C" <bensbrain@hotmail.com>  wrote:
 > mount_msdos /dev/wd1x /mnt
 >
 > You might need to create a disklabel before you try mounting the card.
 >
 > fdisk /dev/rwd1 in order to find out the disk geometry
 > disklabel -i -I /dev/wd1 to do the actual thing.

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.