Subject: Re: More SPARCbook insanity
To: Mike Parson <mparson@bl.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/10/2005 16:03:09
Hello,

> > Anyway, a dd of the first couple of sectors from the CF card should
> > show something recognizable, all I want to know is if data transfers
> > actually work.
> 
> Why do things small? =)
> 
> I did a 'dd if=/dev/wd0c of=cf.img bs=512 count=1024
> 
> It got 323584 bytes into it and through an error, which it claimed it
> corrected, but it quit writing to the file.
Did anything useful end up in the file? There should be a few recognizable strings in the first few sectors, at least if the card contains a few files.

> > Mike - I'll make a kernel with MSDOSFS support ASAP.
> 
> Attached is the dmesg with said errors, plus the entries from when I
> plugged in this Prism 2.5 WLAN card.

> wi0 at pcmcia0 function 0: <11Mbps, Wireless LAN PC Card, Version 01.02, >
> wi0:wi0: record read mismatch, rid=fc01, got=1fc
>  802.11 address 00:02:72:f0:03:94
> wi0: record read mismatch, rid=fd0b, got=bfd
> wi0: using Unknown Lucent chipwi0: record read mismatch, rid=fd20, got=20fd
> 
> wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (0.0.0)
> wi0: record read mismatch, rid=fd10, got=10fd
> wi0: using default channel list
> wi0: record read mismatch, rid=fc03, got=3fc
> wi0: record read mismatch, rid=fd4f, got=4ffd
> wi0: record read mismatch, rid=fdc6, got=c6fd
> wi0: no supported rate list
Ah, the same errors Bernd got. I'll revisit the byte-swapping code.
The ATA error may be related.

have fun
Michael