On 1/26/2011 3:45 PM, Robert Sexton wrote:
> I just ran into something similar with 4G cards, where the nanobsd
> numbers for 4G sandisk cards were wrong.
> 
> It looks like in these most recent cards, Sandisk has reserved more
> flash for wear leveling and spare sectors,
> so a 4G nanobsd image won't fit onto a 4G card.  I used the numbers from
> fdisk to calculate the new device size, and used that in my nanobsd
> script, and all was well.   You're getting errors at the 3.9G boundary. 
> You may be running off the end of the device.

Hmmm, even if I make the media size just 2G, I still get the errors. How
are you burning the image onto the CF ?  What values did you use to
create the image ? Or is it CF reader dependent ?

> 
> 
> - Robert
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/24/11 6:41 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> On the latest SANDisk batch of CFs I got, I am getting periodic errors
>> reading from the flash on my 5501 (FreeBSD RELENG_8).  However, when I
>> put the flash in different readers-- e.g. attached to a regular
>> server, no errors.  On the 5501 I get periodic
>>
>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
>> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND>  LBA=7813103
>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
>> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND>  LBA=7813119
>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
>> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND>  LBA=7813116
>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
>> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND>  LBA=7813119
>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
>> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND>  LBA=7813119
>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
>> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND>  LBA=7813119
>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
>> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND>  LBA=7813119
>>
>>
>> the 2G flashes work just fine in the same box.  The only difference I
>> can see between the 2G and 4G CF is that that atacontrol says "lba48
>> supported".... Could this be the issue ? If so, is there a way to turn
>> it off or work around it ?  My supplier is not carrying 2G anymore and
>> the 4 is the same price as the 2G :(
>>
>>
>>
>> Protocol              ATA/ATAPI revision 0
>> device model          SanDisk SDCFH-004G
>> serial number         ACZ120910191749
>> firmware revision     HDX 6.02
>> cylinders             7751
>> heads                 16
>> sectors/track         63
>> CFA supported
>> lba supported         7813120 sectors
>> lba48 supported       7813120 sectors
>> dma supported
>> overlap not supported
>>
>> Feature                      Support  Enable    Value           Vendor
>> write cache                    yes      yes
>> read ahead                     no       no
>> Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)   no       no      0/0x00
>> SMART                          no       no
>> microcode download             no       no
>> security                       no       no
>> power management               no       no
>> advanced power management      yes      no      0/0x00
>> automatic acoustic management  no       no      0/0x00  0/0x00
>>
>>
>>     ---Mike    ---Mike
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