[Soekris] Problems with large CF device

[Bill Maas]

Hi,

maybe this will shed some light on the issue:

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2001-04/358.html

"Looketh and Ye Will Findeth"


Bill

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:15 -0500, Niraj Tolia wrote:
> I have a 8 GB Seagate CF card (its a hard drive internally). When
> trying to boot Linux on a net4801, I get these hardware errors
> 
> hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE
> ide0: reset: success
> 
> This happened with both a Fedora and Voyage Linux (debian-based)
> install. I doubt it is a hardware problem as the CF card works fine on
> regular laptops. Also, trying to boot of a 4 GB CF card works just
> fine.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of why this might be happening? Any fix? The
> bios on the net4801 is 1.28 and that seems to be the latest.
> 
> Thanks,
> Niraj
> 
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