I have also found this to be the case with 4.0 and later versions and switched to booting from USB as a long term solution.
Finding compatible CF cards was very hit and miss. Even buying the same brand and model did not alway guarentee compatibility. I tried various boot options and PIO modes but would still get occasional timeouts and errors. ----- Dave Dillabough On 2013-10-09, at 6:44 AM, "Erich Titl" <erich.t...@think.ch> wrote: > Hi KP > > on 08.10.2013 19:57, KP Kirchdörfer wrote: > ... >> >> I assume your findings may belong to 4.x as well - a bigger CF may always >> show >> the pb's you've seen. > > It is not necessarily the size, but the speed that goes along. Typically > bigger/newer CF's have higher throughput. For cheap implementations of > the IO channels this may lead to problems. > > The new libata stack is more flexible than the old driver implementation > and appears to be more vulnerable to such a situation. Luckily the > developers have provided options to handle this. > > Yes, 4.x is affected too. > > ... >> >> What about improving this section, and/or add it to the 5.x User Guide? I'm >> shure it will help other users. > > I can definitely give input, my Wiki experience is non existant though. > > cheers > > Erich > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
