On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:13:08PM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> I found my CF to IDE adapter and gave the dd thing another whirl.
>
> Heres the results:
>
> wombat:/proc/ide/hdc# cat model
> SST48CF008C-2A CompactFlash Memory Card
> wombat:/proc/ide/hdc# cat capacity
> 15680
> wombat:/proc/ide/hdc# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc count=15680
> hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=0,
> sector=1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1
> unable to read partition table
> hdc: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=0,
> sector=1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1
> dd: /dev/hdc: Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
>
> So I was a little off about the device not being recognized but the
> end result is the same. The IDE driver trys to extract some type of
> info from the partition table and chokes on it.
I'll stick my nose back in here: the problem isn't what *I* thought it
was either. It's probably really not a design flaw per se; it's that
it's *erroring* on the read, not that it got nothing back that was
valid, that is the problem.
Why *that's* happening, though, I dunno.
Cheers,
-- jra
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