Compact Flash on 8349mITX
Wang Jian
lark at linux.net.cn
Fri Oct 10 18:26:00 EST 2008
Jeff Borlin wrote:
>
> Anton Vorontsov-2 wrote:
>> This happens just before the PATA information is printed. I'm not
>> libata expert; and from the brief look I don't see where libata
>> clears any pending "unexpected" irqs. Just a guesswork,
>> could you try this patch?
>>
> This patch did not appear to change anything.
Without this patch, you can't use it without irq.
> Anton Vorontsov-2 wrote:
>> Can you check if the CF will work w/o IRQs? To try it:
>>
> Your directions did result in progress:
> [...]
> scsi4 : pata_platform
> ata5: PATA max PIO6 no IRQ, using PIO polling mmio cmd 0xf0000000 ctl
> 0xf000020c
> ata5.00: CFA: SanDisk SDCFJ-512, HDX 3.13, max MWDMA2
> ata5.00: 1000944 sectors, multi 0: LBA
> ata5.00: configured for PIO
> scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SanDisk SDCFJ-51 HDX PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] 1000944 512-byte hardware sectors (512 MB)
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] 1000944 512-byte hardware sectors (512 MB)
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> sda: sda1 sda2
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> physmap platform flash device: 01000000 at fe000000
> [...]
> / # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null count=20000
> 20000+0 records in
> 20000+0 records out
> / # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/cf
> mount: Mounting /dev/sda on /mnt/cf failed: Invalid argument
> / # mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/cf
> mount: Mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt/cf failed: Invalid argument
>
> I still need to figure out what I may be doing wrong here, but wanted to
> post the results I have so far in case they are useful.
The CF card seems to work fine. See if your kernel supports vfat by
# cat /proc/filesystems
Of course, you need to mount /proc properly first. If your kernel
doesn't support vfat, make it support.
Or you can insert a blank CF card and play with it (ext2, etc)
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