Re: Sandisk 256MB Compact Flash (SDCFH-256) hangs on access (2.4.26)

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

Brian Beattie wrote:
> If there is a better forum for this question, please let me know.
> 
> I'm running Debian Sarge/2.4.26-1-i686-smp, trying to access this
> compact flash using a CF/IDE adapter from ACS (ACS-CF-IDEToCFA).  This
> works fine for every other CF I have tried (128 and 64).  I have a
> number of these parts and they all act the same and they work fine in an
> PCMCIA/CF adapter and a USB CF reader.   I have set up what I think is
> the simplest case, I have run fdisk and mkfs on another machine using
> the PCMCIA adapter.
> 
> When I try to mount the CF it hangs and I start getting "lost
> interrupt",  does anybody have experience or clues that might help me?

I had similar problems with almost the same setup because of devfs, and 
specially because of devfsd (the devfs deamon).

I suggest you try first to disable the devfsd, and then disbale devfs 
completely. I think there are very ugly race conditions there that only 
appear on a "fast enough" CF card.

If you're not using devfs, then I don't know what the problem is... :(

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com