-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We use with no issue CF cards on my systems that are neo similar to the system. We've used only sandisk cards ( both 32 M / 64 M depending on avaliability at the stores) plus a 8 M card from a Canon digital camera. We use bering 1.0-stable with a modified intrd (with the modules for ide) (at the time we do not found a complete setup for CF so we amused ourserves playing with the configuration tht is very simple to manage) We program the cards initially with dd and then using fdisk,syslinux and a copy from a directory on our suse box. Many chenges on configuration (mainly shorewall, but also interface on firewall tht go up and down on exibitions) and all seems to work fine. Only a card crashed during the initial experiments: not in the firewall but in the cf pcmcia adaptor (I drop that cf in a drawer and, years later, forgotten the accident, I reused it without problems on a system called 'Lazarus' :-) ) We have 2 fw in production for 2 years in our company, in the same time 4 in other companies and 2 up and down to perform services into exibitions. We usually shut down gracefully the fw when make changes and then power up and never have trouble with the backup, but some times, in the first experiments we shut down and power up usin the power switch without problems. IMHO the CF thrashing it is not a problem of 'unomunting' but a problem of sync (of course the unmount force a sync so it helps): remember that writing can be VERY slow.
Hope this can help Giovanni Franza p.s.: only a word to say a big THANK to all people involved in leaf: you are GREAT! Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation wrote: > I get the sense that all the grief I see people have with CF cards just > isn't worth it. I'm only using old junky IDE drives (500MB to 4GB in size) > to boot my shorewall systems. If one were to fail (I know they will at some > point) I'll merely format a 100MB partition on another drive, syslinux it > and copy the the LRPs etc from the backup made by SCP, install it and I'm > back in business. The drives spin down after boot so there is little wear > on them. > > Is anyone running CF with absolutely no issues?? > > - Bob Coffman > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC6JDL8hC8JHP3DDQRAmfUAKDYFaKE9cfP+NM0utSntpU+M5VW1ACgwWk9 pSz/2cwK1+xDT4boTZ6rZQY= =tgTk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
