[Soekris] CompactFlash Card I/O error

[Michael Hernandez]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jonathan Groll wrote:

> 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....

I think maybe Jeff is talking about a microdrive. It's near cf card  
sized, but it's a little drive, complete with moving parts. Check out  
the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive

Mike