I have a microdrive that's finicky also. Seems the problem is it's a
1.8Vcard, which is not standard (standard appears to be 5V or
3.3V). It will not work, period, in a CF<->IDE converter, or in a
PCMCIA<->CF converter. It works fine, however, in *some* USB card readers,
namely the cheapo ones off ebay, but not the expensive ones I bought at the
local office supply store. I suspect that is the problem, at least it was
for me.
Steve
On 12/10/06, Albert Boeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to install Freebsd 6.2 onto a seagate 4GB compact flash microdrive.
Neither FreeBSD 6.1 or 6.2-RC1 installers seem to detect the ATA-CF card
on
the bus; although NetBSD was able to be installed on the drive and works
OK.
I have tried installing the drive as ata0 master in two different
machines;
both times NetBSD is able to boot off the drive -ie the hardware is
working
fine - however the FreeBSD insaller does not detect the drive.
Fitting the microdrive in a working FreeBSD machine as ata1 master does
not
give any further debug info - no dmesg, sysctl seems to log the attachment
as failing, although it is detected by BIOS as ST64022CF.
FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #0: Thu Nov 16 05:12:08 UTC 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
Master: ad0 <QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA6.4/A42.0400> ATA/ATAPI revision
4
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 1:
Master: no device present
Slave: acd0 <201H> ATA/ATAPI revision 0
NetBSD atactl gives:
NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006
# atactl wd0 identify
Model: ST64022CF, Rev: 3.02, Serial #: 4NW03XLS
Device type: ATAPI, removable
Device capabilities:
DMA
LBA
IORDY operation
Command set support:
NOP command (enabled)
READ BUFFER command (enabled)
WRITE BUFFER command (enabled)
look-ahead (enabled)
write cache (enabled)
Power Management feature set (enabled)
SMART feature set (enabled)
FLUSH CACHE command (enabled)
Advanced Power Management feature set (enabled)
CFA feature set (enabled)
Is there a simple fix to make FreeBSD ata recognize the drive?
NB there is a simmilar question about using the same card in a pccard
adapter,
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061937.html
which appears to have been resolved?
Thank You
Regards, Albert
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