[Soekris] CompactFlash Card I/O error

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:39:45AM -0400, Jeff Quast wrote:
 
> If you put the CF card to your ear, you will hear it spin-up for a
> read request, and much like its larger full-sized IDE cousin when
> power requirements are not met, it gets close to a full spin, quits,
> and retries in harmony with the errors. This immediatly led me to
> believe power requirement was at error, as I have had 15k rpm scsi
> disks show very much the same errors and physical behavior (near
> spin-up, dmesg error, spin-down, repeat) when used with a weak power
> supply.

"Spin-up"? What's to spin up? My understanding was that CF was
completely solid-state.

I've just experienced a jarring world-view-discontinuity here. Personal
paradigms must be shifting for me here. Someone, anyone please set me
stragiht....

Cheers,
Jonathan