Maybe you can use testing or experimental Clonezilla live a try ?
Both of them come with newer kernel, so it might help.

Steven.

Tim Nelson wrote:
> Greetings list-
>
> I've been using Clonezilla for quite some time for cloning and otherwise 
> making whole disk backups of my systems. I just tried to write an image to a 
> CF card for a small embedded system I'm working on. During bootup, the system 
> hangs on a bunch of DMA errors related to the CF card. I've tried many 
> different kernel options at the GRUB prompt including "ide0=nodma", 
> "ide=nodma", "ide1=nodma", "nodma", etc all with no avail. One of the options 
> simply made my card 'disappear' when selecting a disk to write from the 
> Clonezilla menu.
>
> What else would you look at? I understand that with CF cards, they may or may 
> not support DMA depending on the type of flash, age, etc. Regardless, isn't 
> there a way to simply turn off DMA altogether and still use the card in PIO 
> mode? Disk access speed is not of consequence for this project...
>
> Help!!!!
>
> --Tim
>
>
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