On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:54:07AM -0400, dcasp3r wrote: > i'm looking to upgrade the CF on my 4801 my existing, older 512mb > sandisk has been flawless (in fact the 4801 itself has been flawless, > thanks Soren and team!) but i'm looking for more space and have got my > eye on the sandisk extreme IV 8gb
You should check the revision number of your board. I bought a 2GB version of that CF card and found that it was unusable until I disabled DMA on the kernel. Soren explained the problem: On 2007/05/10 13:51, Soren Kristensen wrote: > The net4801 added support for DMA on the CompactFlash from PCB rev 3, > dated 040226. If you have an older board then you will need to tell > the ATA driver to disable DMA, as it will detect that the disk support > DMA but don't know it's not wired.... If you have an older board like mine, you'll have to change the wd driver flags to 0x0ff0 using config -e or build a custom kernel. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
