On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:38:34PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 20:26, Stan Gammons wrote: > > I know it's ancient and minimal hardware, but I've been tinkering with > > OpenBSD 5.5 on a Nokia IP260 with an 8GB compact flash. The OS was > > installed on the compact flash using a card reader on a Dell laptop. > > The OS boots and networking works as long as I specify the MAC using > > lladdr in hostname.xxx and use duids. If you don't use duids the > > partitions will not mount when the compact flash is moved from the > > laptop to the IP260. But I see some errors on an 8GB compact flash that > > I didn't see with a 1GB compact flash. Could it be the 8GB compact > > flash is more than what the IP260 supported? Here's the dmesg > > Could be. > > > wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying > > wd0: soft error (corrected) > > wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > > type: ata > > c_bcount: 512 > > c_skip: 0 > > pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x61 > > wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4 > > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4 > > wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 > > wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 65 (wd0 bn 65; cn 0 tn 1 sn 2), retrying > > wd0: soft error (corrected) > > root on wd0a (511531c0c5c7c075.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b > > clock: unknown CMOS layout > > This looks more like pciide controller issues. Either it or the CF > aren't playing nice with each other. But once downgraded to PIO mode, > it appears everything has been slowed down enough to work again.
Actually it is more likely CF socket issues. There are additional signals for DMA old sockets don't handle. http://www.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/cf.html Is a good writeup of the situation.
