[Soekris] CompactFlash Card I/O error

[tzzhc4]

Did you ever figure out the issue with this? I am getting the same errors
with Debian Sarge on my net4801 with a new 4GG CF card (previously I had a
340mb microdrive which worked without issue). The box runs fine for a while
then hangs dumps errors about DMA: 

ma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x01

Then I get a few screens of I/O errors:

end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3246045
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3246053
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3246013
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3273173
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3226125

I have reformatted without issue, tried reloading, also tried the drive in a
box other then my Soekris but could NOT get the error to happen. It only
happens when the CF is running in Soekris. 

Any ideas?



Roberto Jose Roque Paz wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
>     I'm running several net4501 with Debian based Linux distribution. I'm
> using 256 Mb Sandisk CompactFlash Card, mounted read-only. I'm using ext2
> filesystem, devfsd, and linux kernel version 2.6.11.11. After certain
> amount
> of time soekris is up (15 minutes, or a few hours, o maybe a few days), y
> see this entries in syslog file:
> 
> Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector
> 120330
> Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector
> 120330
> Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector
> 120330
> 
>     Those messages appears when i'm try to run some commands in console
> (like ps, or df, but the list varies). I get a message like this:
> 
> host:/¡$ ps axf
> -bash: /bin/ps: Input/output error
> 
>     this means that the shell is having trouble reading (not writting) a
> file from disk. After a "hard reboot" everything works file again (at
> least
> for certain amount of time).
> 
>     Was anyone suffering a behavior like this one?
> 
>     Thank you in advance.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Roberto Paz
> 
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