Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-09 Thread Dominik Meister
Hi Daniel Daniel Melameth [Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 01:26:28PM -0600]: would you please share the RELEVANT PORTION OF YOUR DMESG for the card (and your opinions if you'd like)? I'm particularly interested in what's reported for x-sector PIO and related. It might be a bit late, but ... $ dmesg |

Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-09 Thread Jan Stary
would you please share the RELEVANT PORTION OF YOUR DMESG for the card (and your opinions if you'd like)? I'm particularly interested in what's reported for x-sector PIO and related. It might be a bit late, but ... $ dmesg | grep wd wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: CF 4GB wd0:

Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-09 Thread Maurice Janssen
Jan Stary wrote: would you please share the RELEVANT PORTION OF YOUR DMESG for the card (and your opinions if you'd like)? I'm particularly interested in what's reported for x-sector PIO and related. It might be a bit late, but ... $ dmesg | grep wd wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: CF 4GB

Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-09 Thread Emilio Perea
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:35:35PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: Sadly, I have never seen any multi-sector PIO card. And obviuosly, I will be upgrading soon (ALICes, actually). Can people recommend some quality multi-sector PIO CF cards? I've had excellent results with SanDisk cards. This one is on

Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-09 Thread David Holligan
Some time ago, it was suggested that the 1-sector PIO is what's occasionaly slow about some of these cards (e.g. when untarring a big tgz during an install). Sadly, I have never seen any multi-sector PIO card. And obviuosly, I will be upgrading soon (ALICes, actually). Can people recommend

Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-09 Thread nothingness
that support OpenBSD (that and it's easier just to get everything from one vendor). Thanks. Here's a partial dmesg from my ALIX using PC Engines' 4Gb CompactFlash card: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: CF 4GB wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3823MB, 7831152 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode

Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-10-09, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: would you please share the RELEVANT PORTION OF YOUR DMESG for the card (and your opinions if you'd like)? I'm particularly interested in what's reported for x-sector PIO and related. It might be a bit late, but ... $ dmesg | grep wd wd0

ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-01 Thread Daniel Melameth
With the positive response of OpenBSD on this hardware, I'm considering purchasing these in preparation for a proof of concept. As such, if anyone has purchased the 4GB COMPACTFLASH CARDS THAT PC ENGINES SELLS (http://www.pcengines.ch/cf4dp.htm or http://www.pcengines.ch/cf4slc.htm), would you

Re: ALIX and PC Engines CompactFlash

2009-10-01 Thread sonjaya
i using generic cf ( vgen) for obsd 4.5 and mother board via epia , main problem is only DMA and can handle it with setup manualy adn problem missing. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Daniel Melameth dan...@melameth.com wrote: With the positive response of OpenBSD on this hardware, I'm