[Soekris] Debian install issues worse since 1.32h BIOS upgrade (UDMA prob?)

[Bent]

Hi

2007/10/4, Bruce Harris II <bruce.harrisii at gmail.com>:
>
> ...I updated the BIOS to the 5501 and  now when I install it will error out
> trying during the create partition table install process step.  ...
> stop during the final install phase.  So that leads me to believe the 5501
> has a problem with my flash card.  Does anyone know if the following card
> would pose a problem?   I see reference to UDMA in the BIOS update.
>
>
>
> 8GB OPTIMA PRO UDMA COMPACT FLASH™ ULTRA HIGH SPEED 266X
>

It appears that the same problem exists with the 8GB Sandisk
SDCFH-8192 card I have. It comes with a FAT32 FS preformatted but
appears to be impervious to write operation from e.g. fdisk (I have a
Gentoo Linux installation). When I  alter the partition table with
fdisk fdisk reports an I/O error after which the disk is unreadable.
After a reboot (that part of the BIOS update does work ;-)) the old
partition table is still present. Writing to the disk with cp does not
work either.

Any suggestion, anybody?

Best 73 de Bent