All -
I got ahold of a USB external card reader and was able to write as
much as I wanted to the card with both w2k and freebsd.
This would make me believe there's a bug in the servers BIOS or something
since when it's installed FreeBSD sees it as a typical IDE harddrive.
Are my assumptions correct?
-philip
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> Hi -
> I'm not sure I've got my terminology exactly right, but here's my
> problem. I've got a small server that has a compact flash card slot
> built-in so that it appears as a standard hard drive (the BIOS sees it as
> HDD2 and FreeBSD as /dev/ad2). I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto this
> drive from source cvsupped a day or two ago.
>
> However, part way through (and it's never at the same place) the entire
> machine completely locks up. No messages to the console, nothing in log
> files, zip. But the entire machine is completely frozen.
>
> Once I had it happen while doing a "rm -rf *" in the directory I'd mounted
> it to.
>
> However, I've also used rawio to write a 220 meg file (the card is 256 and
> freebsd says there's 222 available) without problems and set it to
> randomly write 1 meg files all night long and it was still up in the
> morning.
>
> So my question is do I have a flaky flash card? Or a bad controller of
> some sort? Or something else?
>
> And is there any way to figure out what it is (without purchasing more
> cards :) or map around the "bad spot" or?
>
> Server info: http://www.nexcom.com/product/ebc/ebs1569/1569ps.htm
>
> Thanks all!
>
> -philip
>
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