I did have some issues related to running pfSense off of flash memory on certain motherboards (Jetway NF96-525-FL). It was some off compatibility quirk, the same flash memory worked just fine on another board, and that board was perfectly happy with an old hard drive on the same exact IDE channel. But this was not a case of just a warning log message, on 1.3 it would lock up the firewall once every few days, on 2 it would only boot maybe 1/4 of the time. But if you are currently using a CF card successfully, hopefully a new one will continue to work just fine.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Jim Thompson <j...@netgate.com> wrote: > I've got a FIrewire 800-based CF gadget, and the SanDisk cards go very > fast while running "dd" to program them with pfSense. > > The "error", isn't, really. The CF reports its entire size, but has kept > some sectors in reserve. freeBSD attempts to access these during boot, and > the error results. > > But nothing bad happened. > > Netgate uses Kingston for the 4GB cards, and SanDisk for the 2GB cards. > > -- Jim > > On Nov 6, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> wrote: > > > On 11/6/2012 2:24 PM, David Burgess wrote: > >> My CF card is getting to be a few years old now, and I really should > >> have a backup ready to go. I really hate slow IO in any machine, and I > >> don't like long drawn-out firmware updates (especially since I'm usually > >> up at 4 am doing them). > >> > >> With that in mind, can anybody recommend a CF card with good write speed > >> and good reliability? I'm not interested in paying $100, as this is an > >> itx machine and for that money I could just jump to an SSD. My favourite > >> vendor has a good selection of Kingston, but I really don't like that > >> brand for anything other than RAM. > >> > >> If anybody knows of something decent under $40, I welcome your > >> recommendation. Thanks. > > > > I have a Sandisk 200x (30MB/s) 4gb card here that is very speedy. > > However, it has an annoying quirk with the disk layout that makes > > FreeBSD spit an error message on every rw mount. Annoying log spam, but > > it's still speedy. May just be this model, not sure. > > > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List mailing list > > List@lists.pfsense.org > > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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